Groningen 2010: Bojkov wins, Nyzhnyk grandmaster
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Nyzhnyk in his game against Prohaszka
No. |
Player | Nat. |
Years |
Months |
Days |
Year |
1 |
Sergey Karjakin | UKR
| 12
| 7
| 0
| 2002
|
2 |
Parimarjan Negi | IND |
13 |
3 |
22 |
2006 |
3 |
Magnus Carlsen | NOR
| 13
| 3
| 27
| 2004
|
4 |
Bu Xiangzhi | CHN |
13 |
10 |
13 |
1999 |
5 |
Richard Rapoport | HUN |
13 |
11 |
15 |
2010 |
6 |
Teimour Radjabov | AZE |
14 |
0 |
14 |
2001 |
7 |
Ruslan Ponomariov | UKR |
14 |
0 |
17 |
1997 |
8 |
Wesley So | PHI |
14 |
1 |
28 |
2007 |
9 |
Etienne Bacrot | FRA |
14 |
2 |
0 |
1997 |
10 |
Jorge Cori | PERU |
14 |
2 |
0 |
2010 |
11 |
Ilya Nyzhnyk | UKR |
14 |
3 |
2 |
2010 |
12 |
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave | FRA |
14 |
4 |
0 |
2005 |
13 |
Peter Leko | HUN |
14 |
4 |
22 |
1994 |
14 |
Hou Yifan | CHN | 14
| 6
| 2
| 2008
|
15 |
Anish Giri | RUS
| 14
| 7
| 2
| 2009
|
16 |
Yuri Kuzubov | UKR
| 14
| 7
| 12
| 2004
|
17 |
Dariusz Swiercz | POL
| 14
| 7
| 29
| 2004
|
18 |
Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son | VIE |
14 |
10 |
0 |
2004 |
19 |
Ray Robson | USA |
14 |
11 |
16 |
2009 |
20 |
Fabiano Caruana | ITA |
14 |
11 |
20 |
2007 |
21 |
Koneru Humpy | IND |
15 |
1 |
27 |
2002 |
22 |
Hikaru Nakamura | USA |
15 |
2 |
19 |
2003 |
23 |
Pentala Harikrishna | IND |
15 |
3 |
5 |
2001 |
24 |
Judit Polgar | HUN |
15 |
4 |
28 |
1991 |
25 |
Alejandro Ramirez | CRI |
15 |
5 |
14 |
2003 |
26 |
Bobby Fischer | USA |
15 |
6 |
1 |
1958 |
Source: Chessbase
Traditionally this list of "youngest GMs in history" starts with Bobby Fischer, who became a GM in 1958, when he was 15 years, 6 months and 1 day old. However, strictly speaking this list of youngest grandmasters ever contains just ten names, and will stay like this until the day that Sergey Karjakin's record will be broken:1950 – 1: David Bronstein (26) 1952 – 2: Tigran Petrosian (22?) 1955 – 3: Boris Spassky (18) 1958 – 4: Robert Fischer (15-6-1) 1991 – 5: Judit Polgar (15-4-28) 1994 – 6: Peter Leko (14-4-22) 1997 – 7: Etienne Bacrot (14-2-0) 1997 – 8: Ruslan Ponomariov (14-0-17) 1999 – 9: Bu Xiangzhi (13-10-13) 2002 – 10: Sergey Karjakin (12-7-0)Back to Groningen, where Dutch IM Daan Brandenburg secured his second GM norm also with a round to spare: he beat GM Arkadij Rotstein. Bluvshtein beat Balkan and joined the leaders. The Canadian is playing fulltime chess for a year and blogs about it - he'll also be participating in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament later this month.After nine rounds six players eventually shared the top prizes: Daan Brandenburg, Sipke Ernst, Robin van Kampen, Dejan Bojkov, Illya Nyzhnyk and Mark Bluvstein. With a nice win against Andriasian in the last round, Van Kampen was the third player to score a GM norm in Groningen. Shiven, Nardoitsky and Baghdasaryan scored IM norms.And so there's a good chance Groningen will see both Dejan Bojkov and Ilya Nyzhnyk again soon, as the two players keep pleasant memories from the city in the northeast part of the Netherlands. Bojkov won a round-robin tournament last August in Groningen, while Nyzhnyk was (also) the winner of the open tournament in December last year.![Groningen Chess Festival 2010 | Group A | Final Standings](https://images.chesscomfiles.com/proxy/www.chessvibes.com/tabellen/groningen10/http/64566bc91f.jpg)
Selection of games
Game viewer by ChessTempoThis report was based on the excellent official website's round reports (in Dutch only).