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Ernest Kim

Number of games in database: 6
Years covered: 1953 to 1984
Last FIDE rating: 2304
Overall record: +1 -4 =1 (25.0%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games.


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ERNEST KIM
(born May-09-1945, 80 years old) Russia

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Game  ResultMoves YearEvent/LocaleOpening
1. Kotov vs E Kim  ½-½311953TashkentD31 Queen's Gambit Declined
2. B Itkis vs E Kim  0-147197212th Soviet Team Championship qual-3B76 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack
3. A Petrosian vs E Kim  1-042197212th Soviet Team Championship qual-3A38 English, Symmetrical
4. A Veingold vs E Kim  1-026197212th Soviet Team Championship Final-BB77 Sicilian, Dragon, Yugoslav Attack
5. E Kim vs F Sideifzade  0-128197212th Soviet Team Championship Final-BC29 Vienna Gambit
6. V I Sutkus vs E Kim  1-0351984cr ch-Soviet Union ttB12 Caro-Kann Defense
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Kibitzer's Corner
Oct-14-14  Karpova: C.N. 8884, http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/..., deals with this Russian child prodigy.

He won the Tashkent Championship at the age of 5 ('Sunday Times,' 15 February 1959, p. 26).

In 1973, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander presumed that Kim must have been about 20 years old ('A Book of Chess,' London, 1973, p. 18). The 'New Yok Times' of 8 January 1960 calles him <the 6-year old wizard from Tashkent> on p. 9. Winter also links to a picture and footage of Kim from 1958.

This make it seem likely that Kim was born around 1953. So it's unclear if he is the one from the FIDE player profile (year of birth 1945), and also leads to question about the game against Kotov from 1953.

The 'New York Times' of 22 May 1958 reported on p. 40: <The boy has talent, Botvinnik noted, but he needs care> and <When informed about the new Russian chess star here last night, Fischer said, "If Botvinnik says Kim is good, you can believe it.">

Oct-14-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  alexmagnus: The "Tashkent" Kim seems to disappear almost immediately after those reports of a 5-year-old prodigy. I wonder if it was just a hoax of the Soviet propaganda. On Youtube there is a video of Kim at 5 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaww...), and in commentary it says he just got the third category. Sounds a bit too low for someone who just won a championship of the republic's capital (in the video it says nothing about the championship btw).

The position on board in the opening looks somewhat strange too, but maybe someone can give me a reasonable game to reach it :)

Oct-14-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  alexmagnus: <in commentary it says he just got the third category.>

By "commentary" I mean the descirption of the video. Not the commentary in the "movie", which reveals almost no information at all.

Oct-14-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  alexmagnus: <and also leads to question about the game against Kotov from 1953.>

That game seems not to fit either Kim. The Kim from the FIDE page was 8 years old - and gets to play against a WC candidate?! And draws?! Simul or what?

And the alleged prodigy (who was from Tasheknt!) was just born that year, so this fits even worse.

Oct-17-14  Karpova: In C.N. 8886, Dan Scoones (Port Coquitlam, BC, Canada) provides more material:

Kim participated in the 1968-69 USSR Schools Championship and finished joint 4th with 6.0/9. He was awarded a special prize for finishing the tournament undefeated. Alexander Beliavsky won the event with 7.5/9.

Link: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

Oct-18-14
Premium Chessgames Member
  alexmagnus: 1968-69 and still in school, must be the prodigy. But what happened to him in between? And where did he go?

And the mystery of the 1953 game remains...

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