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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...

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