Author: stuart taylor
Date: 07:05:59 08/21/02
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On August 21, 2002 at 08:32:20, Otello Gnaramori wrote: >...and a link with computer chess. > >First of all a report found in : >http://chess.about.com/library/weekly/aa090299.htm > >"8 Year Old Defeats Grandmaster >One of Britain's leading grandmasters was defeated by an eight year-old child at >the 3rd Mind Sports Olympiad earlier this week. > >John Nunn, one of the U.K's top players, lost a five-minute "blitz" game to >David Howell, who is now the youngest person ever to beat a grandmaster. > >The Mind Sports Olympiad, hosted by the Times of London, features competition in >a wide range of thinking games such as chess, bridge, and cryptic crosswords. > >Howell's win over Nunn is not a one-time fluke. Several weeks earlier he beat >British women's champion Harriet Hunt in another fast time-control game. > One of my early wins against a FM (and we're talking about at simuls, I assume) was after he strangely "sacrificed" his queen. I was terrified of taking it, but decided to do so as I had estimated that he does not have something too spectacuar after that, worthy of the queen. After that, he resigned, admitting it was a mistake! So it looks like such things can often happen. But I think David Howell did much more than that, in that he did it twice, against seasoned GM (not FM)simul players, within a short time after each other. S.Taylor
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