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78th Hastings International Chess Congress
28 Dec 2002 - 5 Jan 2003
I am very grateful to John Saunders, who is editor-in-chief of both the famous British Chess Magazine and the BCM Online website, for his personal permission to re-publish at chess-sector.odessa.ua the following text and photograph of Sergey Karyakin. This material forms only a fragment of the extensive BCM Hastings Congress coverage (© 2003 British Chess Magazine) --M.G.
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www.bcmchess.co.uk/news/hastings0203.htm#rd9
Sergey Karyakin: «I Like Walking on My Hands»
John Saunders reports:
Round 9 (5 Jan)
Today's action starts at 2.15pm (not 9.30am as I have seen elsewhere on the web). The Sunday Telegraph carried an interview with Sergey Karyakin this morning (I couldn't find it on their website - but if someone else tracks down an online version, let me know). There were no particularly stunning revelations, but it was well written, by Nigel Farndale. Of course, as a Sunday Telegraph journalist, he will be acutely aware that his editor, Dominic Lawson, is a chess buff. As well as being a very competent player himself, Lawson penned a book on the notorious Kasparov-Short match of 1993 called The Inner Game . He has some connections in high places in chess, the media and politics who all share the name Nigel(la): his father, former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson, his sister, TV celebrity cook Nigella Lawson, and his buddy Nigel Short (uncoincidentally the regular Sunday Telegraph chess columnist). Such is Lawson's keenness on chess that he made the trip down to Hastings to watch play during round 7.
Farndale's account mentioned that Karyakin's other interests included acrobatics. On being asked more about this, Karyakin said that he «liked walking on his hands». Farndale's suggestion that he do this to distract opponents between moves was greeted by boyish giggles. On his chess training, Sergey reveals that his father was very strict if he didn't train properly: «He would punish me with physical exercises such as push-ups and sit-ups». He now trains for six hours a day, with three hours spent at the computer and another three spent with his coach (GM Borovikov, playing in the Challengers). Does he go to school? «Only sometimes», confesses the young grandmaster from Kramatorsk. He travels to tournaments with his coach but not his parents.
Regarding his manner, Farndale describes him as possessing considerable sangfroid and unnerving composure. I can attest to that, having taken his photograph during the tournament.
Text and photograph: © 2003 British Chess Magazine
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Kosteniuk,A (2455) - Karjakin,S (2527) [C92]
Hastings Premier (5), 01.01.2003
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.c3 0-0 9.h3 Bb7 10.d4 Re8 11.Nbd2 Bf8 12.a4 h6 13.Bc2 exd4 14.cxd4 Nb4 15.Bb1 c5 16.d5 Nd7 17.Nf1 f5 18.exf5 Rxe1 19.Qxe1 Bxd5 20.Ra3 (better is 20.Qd1, as in Horvath-Lukacs, Budapest 1986 - M.G.) 20...bxa4 21.N1h2 Bb3 22.Rxb3 axb3 23.Qe6 Kh8 24.f6 Nxf6 25.Nh4 g5! 26.Ng6 Kg7 27.h4 Qd7 28.Qxb3 Re8 29.Bd2 Qf7 30.Qf3 Qd5 31.hxg5 hxg5 32.Qc3 Na2 33.Qa5 Nb4 34.Qc7 Qf7 35.Qa5 Ne4 36.Bxe4 Rxe4 37.Nxf8 Qxf8 38.Nf3 g4 39.Ng5 Re2 40.Be3 Qe7 41.Qa3 Re1 42.Kh2 Qe5 43.g3 Kg6 0-1
Hastings Premier, 28 Dec 2002 - 5 Jan 2003 cat. XII (2549)
Final standings
No Players T Fed ELO 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 Pts Perf
1 Nielsen, Peter Heine g DEN 2620 * = 1 = 1 0 0 1 1 1 6.0 2665
2 Arkell, Keith C g ENG 2521 = * = = = 1 = = = 1 5.5 2631
3 Harikrishna, P g IND 2551 0 = * 1 = = = 1 1 = 5.5 2628
4 Barsov, Alexei g UZB 2525 = = 0 * = 1 = = 1 = 5.0 2594
5 Karyakin, Sergey g UKR 2527 0 = = = * 0 = 1 1 1 5.0 2594
6 McShane, Luke J g ENG 2546 1 0 = 0 1 * 1 = 0 = 4.5 2549
7 Sasikiran, Krishnan g IND 2670 1 = = = = 0 * = = = 4.5 2535
8 Flear, Glenn C g ENG 2527 0 = 0 = 0 = = * 1 1 4.0 2508
9 Kosteniuk, Alexandra m RUS 2455 0 = 0 0 0 1 = 0 * 1 3.0 2434
10 Tseshkovsky, Vitaly g RUS 2545 0 0 = = 0 = = 0 0 * 2.0 2329
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