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Sergey Karjakin
Number of games in database: 724
Years covered: 2000 to 2009
Current FIDE rating: 2722
Highest rating achieved in database: 2732
Overall record: +220 -125 =314 (57.2%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      65 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (158) 
    B90 B33 B42 B32 B48
 Ruy Lopez (84) 
    C67 C92 C88 C84 C78
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (50) 
    C92 C88 C84 C95 C99
 Sicilian Najdorf (41) 
    B90 B92 B98
 French Defense (28) 
    C18 C11 C10 C16 C12
 Petrov (23) 
    C42 C43
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (124) 
    B90 B22 B87 B96 B52
 Sicilian Najdorf (75) 
    B90 B96 B97 B92 B91
 Semi-Slav (40) 
    D43 D45 D44 D47 D49
 Ruy Lopez (34) 
    C67 C92 C78 C88 C65
 Slav (26) 
    D11 D15 D13 D10
 Queen's Gambit Accepted (25) 
    D27 D20 D26 D28 D24
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   Karjakin vs V B Malinin, 2002 1-0
   Karjakin vs Kramnik, 2004 1-0
   Karjakin vs Grischuk, 2009 1-0
   Karjakin vs Radjabov, 2005 1-0
   Karjakin vs Morozevich, 2009 1-0
   Karjakin vs Aronian, 2009 1-0
   Karjakin vs Kosteniuk, 2003 1-0
   Shirov vs Karjakin, 2008 1/2-1/2
   Karjakin vs Kramnik, 2004 1/2-1/2
   Karjakin vs F Bindrich, 2007 1-0

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: [what is this?]
   FIDE World Championship Knockout Tournament (2004)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   Match Karjakin! by amadeus
   Karjakin! by larrewl
   Karjakin in the World Chess Cup 2007 by Augalv
   Sergey Wins First Super Tournament! by Augalv
   Sergey Karjakin's Best Games by KingG
   Match Short-Karjakin by Augalv
   the kids whip the cream by ughaibu
   Match Kosteniuk-Karjakin by Augalv
   Sicilian Sveshnikov 9.Nd5 by KingG

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SERGEY KARJAKIN
(born Jan-12-1990) Ukraine

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Sergey Karjakin was born in Kramatorsk on January 12, 1990. On August 20, 2002, at the international tournament in Sudak, he shocked the chess world by fulfilling his third and final GM norm, making him the youngest grandmaster in chess history, at the age of 12 years and 7 months (a record that still stands). Sergey is a World Champion (under 12), he won boys' championships of Ukraine many times, and participated in two FIDE Grand Prix 2002 tournaments in Dubai and Moscow.

Sergey Karjakin was one of the seconds for Ruslan Ponomariov during his world championship match against Vassily Ivanchuk in 2002. In January 2005, he won the B group of the Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee, and in April he became the first player born in the 1990's to enter the FIDE World Top 100 in rankings. That year he also won the Young Stars of the World tournament, scoring 8.5 points out of 11. In the A-group of Corus Wijk aan Zee (2006) he finished with a plus score. His continued improvement has placed him 24th in the world on the October 2007 edition of the FIDE rating list. In the most recent World Championship cycle, he reached the semifinals of the World Chess Cup (2007) before being eliminated by Alexey Shirov. Karjakin won Corus (2009).


 page 1 of 29; games 1-25 of 724  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. Karjakin vs S Baraniuk 1-033 2000 UKR-ch U12B40 Sicilian
2. Karjakin vs K Gaynutdinov  0-161 2000 Ukrainian Team chB32 Sicilian
3. Karjakin vs M Vachier Lagrave 0-127 2000 Wch U10B39 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Breyer Variation
4. P Sinzhuk vs Karjakin 0-121 2000 Ukrainian Team chD85 Grunfeld
5. G Kuzmin vs Karjakin 1-039 2000 Ukrainian Team chB20 Sicilian
6. A Mukomilov vs Karjakin 0-142 2000 Ukrainian Team chD70 Neo-Grunfeld Defense
7. N Zdebskaja vs Karjakin 1-038 2000 Ukrainian Team chB03 Alekhine's Defense
8. Karjakin vs A Grekh  0-133 2000 UKR-ch U12B40 Sicilian
9. N Khomenko vs Karjakin  0-145 2000 Ukrainian Team chB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
10. Karjakin vs A Tamilin 1-040 2000 Ukrainian Team chB01 Scandinavian
11. Karjakin vs A Kulikovsky 1-035 2000 Ukrainian Team chB45 Sicilian, Taimanov
12. Karjakin vs A Maksimenko  1-036 2001 Nikolaev UKRB09 Pirc, Austrian Attack
13. A Susilodinata vs Karjakin  0-1107 2001 WYB12B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
14. Karjakin vs S Nakonechny 1-033 2001 Nikolaev UKRC50 Giuoco Piano
15. Kupreichik vs Karjakin  ½-½34 2001 2nd Governor's CupB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
16. L Gerzhoy vs Karjakin  ½-½82 2001 EYCC B14A25 English
17. Karjakin vs V Nazarevich  ½-½64 2001 UKR-ch U14B32 Sicilian
18. Karjakin vs D Andreikin ½-½36 2001 WYB12C42 Petrov Defense
19. Karjakin vs N Olenin  1-059 2001 Nikolaev UKRB40 Sicilian
20. E Vorobiov vs Karjakin  1-041 2001 2nd Governor's CupC24 Bishop's Opening
21. Karjakin vs Azis Azizis,Ektoras 1-044 2001 EYCC B14B19 Caro-Kann, Classical
22. Karjakin vs V Komliakov  1-052 2001 2nd Governor's CupB06 Robatsch
23. Pekka Pakarinen vs Karjakin  0-140 2001 Helsinki vs. Tallinn MatchA45 Queen's Pawn Game
24. Karjakin vs T Fomina  ½-½53 2001 Keres mem openC10 French
25. M Vachier Lagrave vs Karjakin  ½-½22 2001 WYB12B03 Alekhine's Defense
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Sep-12-09   Augalv: Unlike his game against Shirov in the fourth round, Sergey played a somewhat hard-fought game against his now countryman Alexander Grischuk in the fifht round. At least after the first 27 moves, which were of theory. In the 35th move Grischuk avoided a draw by repetition and played it out by gaining a pawn which helped the black pieces become more active. Sergey managed to go on the offensive reaching a rook plus bishop vs rook endgame, which is drawn but difficult to defend. Grischuk, who succesfully played this kind of endgame two years ago, defended well.

Here's the game:

A Rychagov vs Grischuk, 2007

Sep-12-09   returnoftheking: <Never play the Ruy Lopez against Sergey with black ;)> He plays it with black himself, and quite succesfully. I think it leads to positions that are somehow his forte.
Sep-12-09   Augalv: <He plays it with black himself, and quite succesfully.> Actually, you are right.
Sep-12-09   Augalv: Drawn game in the last round against Aronian today, who btw, was the deserved winner of the Snd Grand Slam Masters Final. Not too much was at stake in today's game, only Sergey's getting the second spot, which unforatunately he didn't. Aronian had already won the tournament.

Don't know whether Sergey is playing anything before the World Cup..

Sep-13-09   returnoftheking: Tal Memorial (if that is earlier). I think Svidler told (rumors) about the line up on ICC yesterday, and mentioned Karjakin as well. It's going to be incredibly strong.
Sep-17-09   Augalv: The Tal Memorial is earlier, but Karjakin is not playing. If I recall correctly, I have read somewhere that Karjakin was invited but he declined the invitation in order to be able to prepare for the world cup, but I'm not sure.
Sep-18-09   Augalv: (Almost complete) list World Cup participants published.

http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/a...

Sep-18-09   Augalv: Sergey will play the World Blitz Chess Championship.

List of participants:

1. Viswanathan Anand
2. Levon Aronian
3. Magnus Carlsen
4. Vladimir Kramnik
5. Peter Leko
6. Boris Gelfand
7. Vassily Ivanchuk (world blitz champion 2007)
8. Alexander Morozevich
9. Peter Svidler
10. Ruslan Ponomariov

(qualificants from Aeroflot blitz)

11. Sergey Karjakin
12. Vugar Gashimov
13. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
14. Evgeny Bareev
15. Vladislav Tkachiev
16. Zhou Jianchao

(invited by organizers)

17. Anatoly Karpov
18. Alexander Grischuk
19. Alexandra Kosteniuk
20. Leinier Dominguez Perez - present world blitz champion

http://tournaments.chessdom.com/wor...

Sep-28-09   returnoftheking: I didn't know he turned down the invitation, it's a pity. Thanks for the correction though.
Oct-01-09   Augalv: This is good news:

http://karjakin.blogspot.com/

Oct-02-09   Augalv: Karjakin is playing the European Club Cup 2009, which begins tomorrow

http://www.ecc2009.com/teams_open_e...

Oct-03-09   kurtrichards: <Augalv> Thanks for the link but which team does Karjakin belongs? :)
Oct-03-09   Augalv: <kurtrichards>, Karjakin is in the <ShSm-64 Moscow> team, along with Boris Gelfand, Wang Hao, Fabiano Caruana, Boris Grachev, Evgeny Najer, Boris Savchenko, Alexander Riazantsev and Ian Nepomniachtchi.

http://www.chess-results.com/tnr258...

Oct-03-09   kurtrichards: Great company. Great team. Good luck to the team ShSm-64 Moscow.

Thanks <Augalv>. I appreciate the effort you spent answering my query.

Oct-03-09   Augalv: My pleasure.
Nov-03-09   returnoftheking: Pairing for the world cup:
GM Karjakin, Sergey UKR - GM Rodriguez Vila, Andres URU
Nov-03-09   Augalv: And this is the official website:

http://www.ugra-chess.ru/eng/main_e...

Nov-03-09   returnoftheking: Long time not seen..wb;)
Nov-04-09   KamikazeAttack: No 18 in the world, my gawd, what happened Carjack?

I thought this dude was doing well recently?

Nov-04-09   znnnk: Sergey Karjakin will most likely face Artyom Timofeev in the 2nd round, David Navara in the 3rd round and Teimour Radjabov in the 4th
Nov-04-09
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  Rolfo: A certain rise in his program then :)
Nov-04-09   Augalv: <Long time not seen..wb;)>

Thanks <rotk>, it's been a long time ;)

Nov-04-09   Augalv: <znnnk>, you failed to mention whom Sergey would most likely face in the 5th round ;)
Nov-04-09   returnoftheking: Don't think the statistics are promising when it comes to Radjabov, but I am sure Karjakin will make it, even with these strong opponents.
Nov-05-09   Augalv: <rotk>, agreed.
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