Robertino Loretty in chess game

Author: Nikolai Kovytev.

At the age of twelve and seven months, Sergey Karyakin, born in Simpheropol (Crimea, Ukraine), has become the youngest International Grand Master in the world. Nowadays Karjakin is welcomed for the most prestigous chess tournaments. He has lucky to pass both and most: 'the autumn examination session' in November of 2003 he placed forth place being the strongest by its staff on the championship in the Ukraine and fifth place in the Spanish town of Benidorm. Only the names of the testmakers-participants would take one's breath away: Vishi Anand (India), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), Judit Polgar (Hungary) and others. Sergey has successfully played on AEROFLOT OPEN 2004. He got 6 points from 9 possible - which is an excellent result for such a strong tournament. He placed second at the open tournament, which was held in Dos-Ermanes, Spain (153 participants) on March, 2004. According to his plans, Sergey now is taking part in the World championship in Tripoli, Libya. After the World championship he is going to take part in international tournament in Dortmund, Germany on July, 2004 in one group with famous players such as: V.Kramnik, P.Leko and V.Bologan.