Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:00:32 12/10/04
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On December 10, 2004 at 15:10:22, Albert Silver wrote: >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 Another GM game reached the same position after 17.Bc4 -- White also won fairly quickly: [Event "Olympiad"] [Site "Manila PHI"] [Date "1992.06.??"] [Round "4"] [White "Lautier, Joel"] [Black "Campos Moreno, Javier B"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C47"] [WhiteELO "2580"] [BlackELO "2505"] 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Bb4 6.Nxc6 bxc6 7.Bd3 d5 8.exd5 cxd5 9.O-O O-O 10.Bg5 c6 11.Na4 h6 12.Bh4 Re8 13.c4 Be6 14.Rc1 Rb8 15.cxd5 Bxd5 16.Bc4 Bd6 17.b3 Be5 18.Bxd5 cxd5 19.Rc5 g5 20.Bg3 Qd6 21.Qc2 Re6 22.Ra5 Ne4 23.Rxa7 Nxg3 24.hxg3 Bd4 25.Ra5 Rbe8 26.Qd3 Qe5 27.Nc5 R6e7 28.Qf3 Qc7 29.b4 Qc6 30.Nb3 Qc4 31.Qd1 Bb6 32.Rxd5 Re2 33.Qd3 Qxb4 34.Rb5 1-0 Here's the position: [D]1r1qr1k1/p4pp1/2pb1n1p/3b4/N1B4B/1P6/P4PPP/2RQ1RK1 b - - 0 17 CM9_R1 shows a drawish score (slightly favoring Black) with both 17...Re4 and 17...Qe7. Looks like the game started to turn in White's favor after 26...Ba5. Well played by Nakamura. jm
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