Enter Your Reply The Comment You're Replying To Roberto Lavieri wrote on Thu, Apr 15, 2004 09:42 PM UTC:Hikaru Nakamura was Master at 10 years, two months (American record, I don´t know if he has World record), and beated a hightly ranked Grand-Master at the age of 11. He was Grand-Master at age of 15 years, 1 month. He recently finished in 4th. place of 12 invited players in Corus2004 group B (Average ELO of the Tournement: 2560!), beating the winner of the Tournement, G.M. Lazaro Bruzon (ELO 2623) of Cuba, in a exciting game. Group A (For World-Top players) was won by Anand, and Krammnik have had a very bad performance in this Tournement, finishing in intermediate positions. Nakamura is a brilliant player, and he continues his meteoric ascense to the Top positions of the World ranking. But another prodigious boy is Sergey Karjakin, from Ukrania, the youngest G.M. in the history of Chess. This boy obtained his second norm of Grand-Master at the age of 12 years, 7 months (World record). Actually, Karjakin is a 14 years old 2580 ELO player, the same last official rating of Nakamura (actually 16 y.o), but Nakamura´s rating must be raised some points in the last months. In the future (far?, soon?), these two boys can (Why not?) fight for the World Champion tittle of FIDE-Chess, they are the most promising young figures, and both are ascending in a vertiginous manner... Edit Form You may not post a new comment, because ItemID Little G.M. does not match any item.