Karjakin beats Short in rapid match

Submitted by SonofPearl on Mon, 07/07/2008 at 12:24pm.

The 18 year-old Ukranian GM Sergey Karjakin (pictured) has won his rapid match in Kiev against the veteran British GM and former World Title challenger Nigel Short. The time control was 25 minutes per game plus a 10 second increment per move. 10 games were played, but Karjakin only needed 7 to reach an uncatchable 5.5 points and then won two of the last three games as well for good measure, running out a crushing winner by a score of 7.5 - 2.5.

Karjakin has been slightly overshadowed in recent times by the other young superGM's, Magnus Carlsen and Teimour Radjabov, but showed good form in the match to end a convincing winner.

The games were exciting and - not surprisingly given the fast time control - featured some time-pressure blunders.

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by Nraja - 2 months ago
Memphis, TN United States

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excellent!!!

by SonofPearl - 2 months ago
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benws- good spot! Now corrected.

by Dragonknightx - 2 months ago
Sydney Australia

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Short has become slightly weaker and kjartan smashed him well

by OVAIDO - 2 months ago
ainzaghouan Tunisia

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very exiting thanks!

by Utopian - 2 months ago
Iloilo Philippines

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Thanks, very exciting to see Shorts swashbuckling style again and he used various openings which I've never seen him use before, but Karjakin is too accurate for him. I like Karjakins chances over Carlsen in the future.