Prodigy Alert
Can you defeat this snowball?
That's 11-year old FM Ilya Nyzhnyk of Ukraine, already rated 2405. If that's aiming a bit too high, here's a slightly more manageable opponent, 9-year old Nicholas Nip of the U.S. of A., the new record-holder for the youngest master in U.S. history.
Help.
That's 11-year old FM Ilya Nyzhnyk of Ukraine, already rated 2405. If that's aiming a bit too high, here's a slightly more manageable opponent, 9-year old Nicholas Nip of the U.S. of A., the new record-holder for the youngest master in U.S. history.
Help.
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on
Thursday March 6, 2008 at 2:36pm
[Event "NED-ch U20"]
[Site "Rotterdam"]
[Date "1964.??.??"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Noorda, Sybolt Jan"]
[Black "Timman, Jan H"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C02"]
[PlyCount "17"]
[EventDate "1964.??.??"]
[EventType "tourn"]
[EventRounds "11"]
[EventCountry "NED"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "2000.11.22"]
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Nf3 Qb6 6. Bd3 cxd4 7. cxd4 Bd7 8. O-O Qxd4 9. Nxd4 1-0
It would be sad if that were true, but I'm not sure why we should think assume such a pessimistic view. Most of the most talented kids I knew when I was young excelled in many areas. Heck, think of all the time kids spend watching TV and playing video games; if just that amount of time was spent working on chess in an intelligent way, they'd probably at least be in those kids' ballpark.
Hi Peter:
The place to ask is via the "Contact" link on the upper right of the blog. I don't know if the moves are correct - my inclination is to doubt it - though my database (also put out by ChessBase) says the same thing. If you're really curious, you should write Tim Krabbé (the link to his website is on my blogroll) or Edward Winter for more information.