Sergey Karjakin - the Youngest Grandmaster in chess history

A juvenile chess player from Kramatorsk conquered the grandmaster's frontier at twelve years and seven months

A 12-year old Ukrainian Sergey Karjakin has fulfilled the last GM's norm at the international chess tournament that was held in the town of Sudak, the Crimea Peninsula, Ukraine, from 2nd to 12th August. Now he will be the youngest GM in the chess history.

Sergey Karjakin was born on 12 January 1990, his FIDE rating now is 2523. Sergey masters chess at the A.V.Momot Regional Donetsk Chess Club under the guidance of Alexander Alexikov and the 1971 USSR Champion Grandmaster Vladimir Savon. Sergey is a world champion under 12, he won boys' championships of Ukraine many times and participated in two FIDE Grand Prix 2002 tournaments in Dubai and Moscow. In January 2002 Sergey Karjakin was one of the Ruslan Ponomariov's seconds during his world championship match versus Vasyl Ivanchuk.

The final GM norms' record history

Bobby Fischer: 15 years, 6 months, 1 day
Judit Polgar: 15 years, 4 months, 28 days
Peter Leko: 14 years, 4 months, 22 days
Etienne Bacrot: 14 years, 2 months, 0 days
Ruslan Ponomariov: 14 years, 0 months, 17 days
Teimour Radjabov: 14 years, 0 months, 14 days
Bu Xiangzhi: 13 years, 10 months, 13 days
Sergey Karjakin: 12 years, 7 months, 0 days
 
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The A.V. Momot Chess Club: A Conveyor Of Young Champions

On 29 April 2002 Karjakin's club mate Kateryna Lahno (born 27 December 1989, FIDE rating 2328) fulfilled the international GM norm for women - it happened when she was even younger than the famous Judit Polgar, so she also holds the record.
The 1999 world champion and multiple champion of Ukraine among girls Kateryna Lahno moved to Kramatorsk from Lviv.

 
The A.V.Momot Chess Club located in Kramatorsk has a status of a regional club as of 29 November 1999. A great work is carried out here to prepare the strongest young chess players of Ukraine. The club's activity is sponsored by the Donetsk Joint-Stock Research & Commercial Company DANKO. Mikhail N. Ponomariov was the first director of the chess club - in August 2002 he was superseded at this office by Alexander V. Martynkov.

Academician of the Academy of Economic Sciences of Ukraine and a correspondent member of the Academy of Informatics of Ukraine, Alexander V. Momot was the first president of the Joint-Stock Company DANKO. He pioneered and published Ukrainian newspapers and magazines Delo i pravo, Vse and Goluboi ogonyok.
 
 
 
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