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| Posted by cairo mailcafe.net 1/11/2006 01:50:54 Play online chess |  Subject: Young GrandmastersMessage: No. - Player - Nat. - years - months - days - year 1 Sergey Karjakin UKR .................12 7 0 2002 2 Magnus Carlsen NOR ................13 3 27 2004 3 Bu Xiangzhi CHN .....................13 10 13 1999 4 Teimour Radjabov AZE .............14 0 14 2001 5 Ruslan Ponomaryov UKR ..........14 0 17 1997 6 Etienne Bacrot FRA .................14 2 0 1997 7 Maxime Vachier-Lagrave FRA ....14 4 0 2005 8 Peter Leko HUN ......................14 4 22 1994 9 Yuri Kuzubov UKR ...................14 7 12 2004 10 Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son VIE 14 10 0 2004 11 Hikaru Nakamura USA ............15 2 19 2003 12 Koneru Humpy IND ................15 4 28 2002 13 Judit Polgar HUN ...................15 4 28 1991 14 Alejandro Ramirez CRI ............15 5 14 2003 15 Bobby Fischer USA ................15 6 1 1958 more here: -> www.chessbase.com Bw. Cairo | ||
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| Posted by cairo mailcafe.net 1/11/2006 12:21:46 Play online chess | Even Message: Bw. Cairo ——— Levon Aronian shrugs off losses to triumph at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee — Levon Aronian shrugged off an early loss to the chess world No1 Magnus Carlsen and a late defeat by a tail-ender to win first prize at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee this week with impressive authority. The Armenian world No2's 9/13 total was a point clear of Carlsen, Teimour Radjabov, and the Italian 19-year-old Fabiano Caruana who shared second prize. The elite chess events which make up the chess equivalent of a Grand Slam include Moscow's Tal Memorial and the London Classic as well as Wijk. Aronian was subdued in London, but he tied first with Carlsen in Moscow and his overall rating is closing in on the Norwegian's. Aged 29 and at the height of his powers, Aronian would have been a good bet to capture ... Posted by fmgaijin | mailcafe.net 1/11/2006 15:07:30 Play online chess Capa was clearly . . . Message: With both Capa and Fischer and perhaps other "oldtimers" like Kasparov even, the "date" of GM is a little deceptive because they did not have opportunities to play in GM norm events earlier and then demonstrated GM skills on their FIRST TRY (!). That is, Fischer's first international event was the Interzonal, where he qualified for the Candidates Tournament as one of the top 10 players in the world and automatically became a GM, but he was clearly GM strength at 14 when he won the US Championship. Similarly, Capa won his international debut at San Sebastian ahead of Rubinstein, Nimzo, Schlecter, etc. These days, a young player usually gets many chances to play in norm events and can gain the titles more quickly as a result. ——— Low-key Aronian soars high in Wijk aan Zee chess tournament — Armenian GM Levon Aronian has added another chapter to a chess career that has been both illustrious and somewhat under the radar, capturing the 74th Tata Steel Grandmaster “A” Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, Sunday by a full point over Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Azerbaijan’s Teimour Radjabov. Despite a loss to Carlsen during the Category 21 event, Aronian won going away, notching a quick last-round draw to finish at a very impressive 9-4. The genial 29-year-old Aronian, ranked second in the world behind Carlsen, led his small country to gold in the 2006 and 2008 Chess Olympiads and to a World Team Chess title last year. He also has racked up a slew of firsts in elite chess events over ... |