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Kangugi Karanja

Number of games in database: 3
Years covered: 1986 to 1987
Highest rating achieved in database: 2120


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KANGUGI KARANJA
(born Nov-23-1973, 51 years old) United States of America

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Wikipedia article: K. K. Karanja

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. K K Karanja vs S F Mayer ½-½461986New York OpenB23 Sicilian, Closed
2. I Gurevich vs K K Karanja 1-0251987New YorkB04 Alekhine's Defense, Modern
3. K K Karanja vs R Seltzer 1-0221987U.S. Cadet ChampionshipB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
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Jul-21-09  whiteshark: Kangugi "K.K." Karanja (born November 23, 1973) is a chess player regarded as the first African-American chess prodigy. He became a Candidate Master at the age of 10, the youngest African-American to do so.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._K._...

Jul-21-09  myschkin: . . .

Great player, thx <Shark> :D

additional link: http://www.groupsrv.com/hobby/about...

'Pic': http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2346...

Jul-21-09  whiteshark: "<I hate the way he stares at me>, said <K. K. Karanja <>>, 14 years old, as Mr. Kasparov moved a chess piece and went on to the next player. <He's scary.>"

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/23/n...

Dec-19-09  ILikeFruits: so...
he's...
kkk...
May-17-10  myschkin: . . .

".. It was late 1990 when a smart chess kid and his father, a Kenyan and a professor [*Edward Karanja] in New York, came to Kenya as father and son duo to visit the country and do some chess related tours. The father, after reading a story in the papers regarding this young boy who was being given special permission to observe minor heart operations at Kenyatta National Hospital, expressed interest through the newspapers of getting to meet with me. This was in the intent of helping me go to the US. When I look back at the meeting and how things worked out between the 'meeting' and the media circus and events that followed, I can say without any reservations that it was all but a show, a promotion of his cause to parade his son in Kenya, and as a means to justify his ends - whatever they were. .."

source: http://www.meetkenyans.com/kenyan-i...

[* http://www.larchmontgazette.com/obi... ]

Apr-10-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  offramp: Tengo una naranja por el maestro Karanja.
Apr-16-14  tranquilsimplicity: How kind that an orange has been offered to Karanja k. I suppose upon consumption el maestro will fall under the "new world order". #
Feb-24-24
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  GrahamClayton: Karanga featured on the cover of the September 1988 edition of the Kenyan business magazine 'Executive', due to a simul he gave in the country:

https://kenyachessmasala.com/2021/0...

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