Karjakin wins Tomsk with 2834 performance
7/22/2006 – At twelve Sergey Karjakin was the youngest GM of all time. At 16 he has just finished a category 18 double round robin tournament with Morozevich, Ponomariov, Kasimdzhanov, Rublevsky and Bologan a point and a half ahead of the field. The event was the 10th Petr Izmailov Memorial in Tomsk, Russia. We bring you games, impressions and new pictures.
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Tenth Petr Izmailov Memorial
The 10th Petr Izmailov Memorial rapid tournament took place in Tomsk, Russia, from July 11 to 16th 2006. The double round robin event was won by Sergey Karjakin, who scored 1.5 points more than his nearest rival (Rublevsky) and produced a 2834 performance in the process.
The winner with a 2834 performance: 16-year-old Sergey Karjakin
Final standings
Or if you prefer a manually generated table from the official web site:
| N |
Фамилия |
Страна |
ЭЛО |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
О |
М |
| 1 |
Карякин Сергей |
УКР |
2679 |
1 |
1 |
½ |
½ |
½ |
0 |
1 |
1 |
½ |
1 |
7 |
I |
||
| 2 |
Морозевич Александр |
РОС |
2731 |
0 |
½ |
½ |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
½ |
1 |
0 |
4,5 |
IV |
||
| 3 |
Бологан Виорел |
МОЛ |
2645 |
0 |
½ |
1 |
½ |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
½ |
½ |
4 |
V-VI |
||
| 4 |
Пономарев Руслан |
УКР |
2721 |
½ |
½ |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
½ |
1 |
1 |
½ |
4 |
V-VI |
||
| 5 |
Рублевский Сергей |
РОС |
2667 |
½ |
1 |
½ |
1 |
½ |
½ |
0 |
½ |
0 |
1 |
5,5 |
II |
||
| 6 |
Касымжанов Рустам |
УЗБ |
2672 |
½ |
0 |
1 |
1 |
½ |
0 |
1 |
½ |
½ |
0 |
5 |
III |
- All available games. The games of rounds 1, 3 and 4 remain unavailable. Mark Crowther of The Week in Chess typed up the rest of the games as they were played.
Picture Gallery
Players at the opening ceremony: Sergei Rublevsky, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander
Morozevich, Sergey Karjakin, Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Viorel Bologan
The tournament hall, with Karjakin-Kasimdzhanov (foreground), Morozevich-
Rublevsky and Bologan-Ponomariov (background) under way
Former FIDE world champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov vs boy wonder Sergey Karjakin
Between a rock and an attractive guide: Players take an outing in Tomsk
Prayers not answered: Viorel (Viktor) Bologan makes an offering in a Tomsk
church
Rustam Kasimdzhanov with his young son
Tomsk
Tomsk, a centre of the Tomsk region, is located on the right bank of the Tom river. It was founded in 1604 after the Russian tsar Boris Godunov ordered Cossack leader Gavril Pisemsky and officer Vasiliy Tyrkov to found a fort on the Tom River, on Tatar land, to protect the river crossing and Eushta population from Kalmyk and Kyrghiz tribes.
In 1629 Tomsk was raised into the status of a centre of the region. It became important as a military center for pacifying the native people and evolved into a regional administrative center. Beginning in the late 1830s, its population grew quickly thanks to the intensifying gold-mining activity in Siberia. The present Tomsk with a population of 473 thousand is one of the largest industrial, scientific and cultural centers of Western Siberia.
Pictorial impression of Tomsk
The pioneer Siberian city of Tomsk in the early 20th Century
Tomsk today, with the city emblem on the town square
Lenin Street
Water is life – a fountain
The University of Tomsk, main building
The "Wedding House"
A typical wooden house in Tomsk
The Russian-German house
Official web site (in Russian)
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