Author: Albert Silver
Date: 12:10:22 12/10/04
Although it's off-topic, I suspect more than a few will be interested. A 6-game
match began yesterday between 17-year-old Hikaru Nakamura (turned 17 yesterday),
the newly crowned US Champion, and 15-year-old Sergey Karjakin (turns 15 in a
month actually), the youngest GM in history (was 12). The match is using serious
classical time controls played at 40 moves in 90 minutes plus 30 seconds
increment, similar to that of the US and Russian Championships, and can be
viewed online at either ICC or Playchess, and other sites no doubt.
I was rather surprised as this comes only a week after Nakamura won US
Championship, a long and tiring event. Anyhow, Nakamura won the first game
yesterday (would you believe it was a Four Knights?) and the second is to be
played today (in 2 hours as of this post).
It certainly should be an interesting match and I look forward to seeing these
prodigies clash.
Albert
[Event ""]
[Site "chessclub.com"]
[Date "2004.12.10"]
[Round ""]
[White "*Nakamura(GM)"]
[Black "*Karjakin(GM)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco ""]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Bb4 6.Nxc6 bxc6
7.Bd3 d5 8.exd5 O-O 9.O-O cxd5 10.Bg5 c6 11.Na4 h6 12.Bh4 Re8
13.c4 Bd6 14.Rc1 Rb8 15.b3 Be6 16.cxd5 Bxd5 17.Bc4 Bf4 18.Rc3
Be5 19.Rc2 Qd6 20.Bxf6 Bxf6 21.Bxd5 cxd5 22.Nc5 Be5 23.g3 Rbc8
24.Nd3 Bc3 25.Nf4 d4 26.Qd3 Ba5 27.Rc4 Rxc4 28.bxc4 Qe5 29.Rb1
Bc3 30.Rb7 Re7 31.Rb5 Qd6 32.Nd5 Re6 33.Rb7 Re8 34.Qf3 Rf8 35.Rxa7
Bb4 36.Qf5 Bc5 37.Rc7 Ba3 38.c5 Bxc5 39.Rxc5 g6 40.Nf6+ Kg7 41.Ne4 1-0
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