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Karjakin 
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Sergey Karjakin
Number of games in database: 697
Years covered: 2000 to 2009
Current FIDE rating: 2721
Highest rating achieved in database: 2732
Overall record: +200 -109 =288 (57.6%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.
      100 exhibition games, odds games, etc. are excluded from this statistic.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:
 Sicilian (157) 
    B90 B33 B42 B32 B48
 Ruy Lopez (77) 
    C67 C92 C88 C84 C78
 Ruy Lopez, Closed (47) 
    C92 C88 C84 C95 C99
 Sicilian Najdorf (41) 
    B90 B92 B98
 French Defense (27) 
    C18 C11 C10 C16 C12
 Caro-Kann (22) 
    B12 B19 B17 B18
With the Black pieces:
 Sicilian (122) 
    B90 B22 B87 B96 B52
 Sicilian Najdorf (73) 
    B90 B96 B97 B92 B91
 Semi-Slav (39) 
    D43 D45 D44 D47 D49
 Ruy Lopez (31) 
    C67 C78 C88 C65 C64
 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 Radjabov, 2005 1-0
   Karjakin vs Morozevich, 2009 1-0
   Karjakin vs Kosteniuk, 2003 1-0
   Karjakin vs Aronian, 2009 1-0
   Karjakin vs Kramnik, 2004 1/2-1/2
   Shirov vs Karjakin, 2008 1/2-1/2
   Karjakin vs F Bindrich, 2007 1-0
   L Dominguez vs Karjakin, 2009 0-1

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 28; games 1-25 of 697  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. Karjakin vs A Grekh  0-133 2000 UKR-ch U12B40 Sicilian
2. N Khomenko vs Karjakin  0-145 2000 Ukrainian Team chB90 Sicilian, Najdorf
3. Karjakin vs A Tamilin 1-040 2000 Ukrainian Team chB01 Scandinavian
4. Karjakin vs A Kulikovsky 1-035 2000 Ukrainian Team chB45 Sicilian, Taimanov
5. Karjakin vs S Baraniuk 1-033 2000 UKR-ch U12B40 Sicilian
6. Karjakin vs K Gaynutdinov  0-161 2000 Ukrainian Team chB32 Sicilian
7. P Sinzhuk vs Karjakin 0-121 2000 Ukrainian Team chD85 Grunfeld
8. Karjakin vs M Vachier Lagrave 0-127 2000 Wch U10B39 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Breyer Variation
9. G Kuzmin vs Karjakin 1-039 2000 Ukrainian Team chB20 Sicilian
10. A Mukomilov vs Karjakin 0-142 2000 Ukrainian Team chD70 Neo-Grunfeld Defense
11. N Zdebskaja vs Karjakin 1-038 2000 Ukrainian Team chB03 Alekhine's Defense
12. Karjakin vs Areshchenko  0-189 2001 Nikolaev UKRB19 Caro-Kann, Classical
13. Karjakin vs Areshchenko  ½-½53 2001 2nd Governor's CupB92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
14. Karjakin vs M Ragger  ½-½31 2001 EYCC B14C59 Two Knights
15. M Rodshtein vs Karjakin  ½-½77 2001 WYB12D27 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical
16. S Zavgorodniy vs Karjakin  1-060 2001 Nikolaev UKRB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
17. Efimenko vs Karjakin  1-043 2001 2nd Governor's CupB17 Caro-Kann, Steinitz Variation
18. A Bets vs Karjakin  ½-½41 2001 Nikolaev UKRD85 Grunfeld
19. Karjakin vs A Korobov 0-124 2001 2nd Governor's CupB89 Sicilian
20. Karjakin vs M Adamski  1-038 2001 EYCC B14B92 Sicilian, Najdorf, Opocensky Variation
21. I Khairullin vs Karjakin  ½-½40 2001 WYB12B22 Sicilian, Alapin
22. Karjakin vs V Kurochkin 1-037 2001 UKR-ch U14B42 Sicilian, Kan
23. S Bondarchuk vs Karjakin 0-125 2001 Nikolaev UKRD27 Queen's Gambit Accepted, Classical
24. Karjakin vs Miroshnichenko  ½-½55 2001 2nd Governor's CupB57 Sicilian
25. V Papin vs Karjakin ½-½38 2001 EYCC B14C67 Ruy Lopez
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May-10-09   returnoftheking: Thanks for the link.

Karjakin - Radjabov instructive light piece ending strong N+N vs N+(bad) bishop.

May-10-09   KamikazeAttack: Now that Carjack is getting invitations to top level chess tournamnents, he is showing his class.

Those idiots who kept wasting invitations on has beens like Van Wely finally so sense.

And those who think the future of chess belongs to Carlsen are in for a rude awakening. There are a few more Carjacks waiting for their chance to play and improve in top level play.

May-10-09   returnoftheking: haha. Never write van Wely off-but there are indeed enough top class players who don't or did not get a chance and that's a shame.
May-10-09   Augalv: Carjack?

lol

May-10-09   hand banana: his name should be transcripted as karyakin in english.
May-10-09   Augalv: FIDE World team beats Azerbaijan 21.5-10.5

The FIDE team playing in the President's cup in Baku was nominally 50 points stronger than its Azeri opponents. But even that could not lead anyone to anticipate the tonking (as the British would call it) delivered by visitors. Vladimir Kramnik was the lead tonker, with 6.5 points from eight games and a performance of 2977. Anand followed with 5.5/8 = 2850. Final report with video.

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp...

Jun-07-09   Karjakinfan: Seems like Sergey is taking a long break from chess. I hope he is in great form when he comes back. Looking foward to his next tourney.
Jun-07-09   returnoftheking: I guess he feels that winning Corus and Bilbao in 1 year is enough..
Jun-08-09   Augalv: <I guess he feels that winning Corus and Bilbao in 1 year is enough..>

Well i guess that explains Sergey's <long> break from chess. He's been seriously preparing for his second super tournament win this year!

Jun-08-09   Augalv: Btw, the Bilbao Grand Slam final will be played exclusively by the four winning players of the tournaments that, along with Bilbao, make up the Grand Slam Chess Association: Corus, Linares, Mtel Masters, and Pearl Spring, which has been incorporated into the Grand Slam this year.

It's still not known whether it will be a double round-robin or whether the participants will go to a 4x4 match-tournament.

Jun-14-09   returnoftheking: augalv;
since you liked the aerosvit game against van Wely I mentioned a while back you might like this one too:

Eljanov vs Karjakin, 2007

I believe this one won him a special prize (informant??) too-though I can't find any info on that.

Jun-14-09   returnoftheking: <ChessInformant 101 features a selection of 459 annotated games and 516 game fragments which makes a total of nearly 1000 latest novelties all taken from the period September 1 till December 31 of 2007.... The most important theoretical novelties goes to the game Eljanov – Karjakin,Foros 2007 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 a6 5.Nc3 b5 6.c5 Nbd7 7.a3 a5 8.Bd3 e5 9.dxe5 Ng4 10.e6 fxe6 11.Nd4 Nxc5 12.Be2 Nxf2 13.Kxf2 Bd6 14.g3 0-0+ 15.Kg2 Bd7 16.Bd2 e5 17.Nb3 Ne6 18.Bg4 a4 19.Nc1 Qg5 20.h4 Qg6 21.h5 Qg5 22.Rh4 e4 23.Qe1 Nc5 24.Bxd7 Nxd7 25.N1e2 Ne5 26.Qh1 Nf3 27.Qh3 Qf6 28.Nf4 Nxd2 0-1,and the extra included theoretical survey from Paunovic is superb!>
Jun-14-09   Augalv: Thanks for the game <ROTK>. Eljanov was completely outplayed by Karjakin. Not that easy to spot where he went wrong.
Jun-14-09   Augalv: At least to my patzer eyes ;)
Jun-28-09   returnoftheking: I just read an article about young title holders.
GM Karjakin is still number 1 on the list; the only player to have achieved the title at the age of 12!

Now I am wondering: The article only emphasises on age but it takes not into account the number of games played and the amount of possible GM norms in the tournaments before; in other words; how many tries these stars needed to get the title. I can imagine that some players get more chanches than others (based on geography/country and wealth). I was amazed to see quite a number of Gm's from outside Europe, India and the former Soviet states on the list of young GMs. F.e. Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son, from Vietnam, achieved the title at 14 years and 10 months in 2004. Ramirez (at 15 years) from Costa Rica. Bu from China. Those aren't countries with many title holders and/or big tournaments and chess culture and this may make their achievements even more special. It's probably meaningles to look at those lists and rank one GM over another based on the time they took to become GM. Still: good to see Karjakin is one of a kind!:)

12yr

1 Karjakin

13 yr

2 Negi
3 Carlsen
4 Bu

14 yr

5 Radjabov
6 Ponomariov
7 So
8 Bacrot
9 Lagrave
10 Leko

11 Yifan
12 Giri
13 Kuzubov
14 Nguyen truong Son
15 Caruana

15 yr

16 Humpy
17 Nakamura
18 Harikrishna
19 Polgar
20 Ramirez

(21 Fischer)

List of countries in top 20

Ukraine: 3
India: 3

France: 2
China: 2
Hungary: 2

Italy: 1
Norway: 1
Phillippines: 1
Vietnam: 1
Usa: 1
Holland: 1
Azerbeijan: 1
Costa Rica: 1

It's also a bit strange that there is noone from chess great countries like Armenia, Russia (maybe you could say Giri) and Yugoslavia (war?) on the list.

Anyway, I guess I just had to type something ^^

Jun-30-09   Augalv: rotk, with so many chess prodigies and younger talented chess players every time, I thought Sergey's record would be broken by now. I considered Ukrainian chess prodigy Illya Nyzhnyk to be a serious candidate to break the (now) Russian’s record, but he missed his chance.

Good to see Sergey's record still stands :)

Jul-01-09   Augalv: Speaking of prodigies, here is an article of interest appeared on chessbase two weeks ago:

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp...

Jul-03-09   returnoftheking: Interesting article..lot of players whom I never heard of.

Btw..
Anyone knows any noteworthy Karjakin endgame achievements?

Jul-03-09   returnoftheking: stuff like this:

Karjakin vs Adams, 2008

Adams vs Karjakin, 2007

I mean, it seems people actually think that Jakovenko or carlsen are better endgame players..;)

(and while Jako lost the B vs N ending we see a game above with Karjakin winning it!)

Jul-03-09   Augalv: <I mean, it seems people actually think that Jakovenko or carlsen are better endgame players..;)>

Jakovenko or Carlsen better endgame players?!

;)

Jul-03-09   returnoftheking: ridiculous, I know.
That's why I am looking for some extra material to prove otherwise;)
Jul-03-09   Augalv: This game may prove otherwise ;)

Here Sergey shows <great> endgame technique:

Karjakin vs Movsesian, 2009

Jul-04-09   returnoftheking: yes, that's what I mean! Can't believe I forgot about that one. If Carlsen is the new Fischer, then Karjakin is the new Karpov! ;)
Jul-04-09   Augalv: <If Carlsen is the new Fischer, then Karjakin is the new Karpov! ;)>

You got that right ;)

Jul-04-09   Augalv: And, of course, we shouldn't forget this game:

Karjakin vs Kramnik, 2004

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