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THE WEEKLY KNIGHT
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(for September 19, 1992)
Some of the world's best players are under 21 years of age.
Except for US Champion Gata Kamsky and England's young
phenom, Matthew Sadler, many of them recently participated in
the Oakham junior tournament, an event held every two years
at an exclusive boarding school in the English countryside.
This year's tournament, the fifth edition, consisted of 52
competitors, including 6 Grandmasters: Alexey Shirov from
Latvia; England's own Michael Adams; the Armenian, Vladimir
Akopian, the 1991 US Open co-champion; Bologan from Moldavia
and three Russian GMs, Ulibin, Tiviakov and the 16 year old
sensation, Vladimir Kramnik, who finished with the best
individual score at the recent Manila Olympiad.
Of course, Shirov, the world's number 4 ranked player, was
the favorite. Despite losing a game to Kramnik, his 7.5-1.5
performance was still good enough to secure victory by a full
point. A five way tie occurred for second place between
Akopian, Bologan, Kramnik, Tiviakov and Gdanski, all of whom
finished with 6.5 out of 9 points.
The hometown hero, Michael Adams, who won the super-strong
SWIFT rapids tournament earlier in the year and was second to
Nigel Short in the Duncan Lawrie English Championship, could
do no better than 15th place, with his 5-4 score.
Shirov's play in this event (as well as in most others in
which he participates) epitomized that of a hungry, young
lion: his openings were sharp, his style was aggressive and
he was willing to take chances.
In his penultimate round game against Akopian, he also
demonstrated another quality of a true champion--the desire to
win.
White: A.Shirov Black: V.Akopian Slav Def.
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.g4
Ng4 8.Rg1 h5 9.h3 Nh6 10.e4 de4 11.Ne4 Bb4 12.Bd2 Bd2 13.Qd2
Nf6 14.Nc3 Nf5 15.0-0-0 Kf8 16.Bd3 Bd7 17.Ne5 Be8 18.Ne2 Rh7
19.Bf5 ef5 20.Ng3 Ne4 21.Ne4 fe4 22.Qf4 Kg8 23.Qe4 Qe7 24.Qf4
Rd8 25.Rge1 Qd6 26.d5 Qh6 27.Qh6 Rh6 28.dc6 Rd1 29.Rd1 Bc6
30.Rd8 Kh7 31.Rf8 Rf6 32.Rf7 Bg2 33.h4 Rf7 34.Nf7 Kg6 35.Nd6
Kf6 36.Kd2 g5 37.hg5 Kg5 38.Ke3 Kg4 39.Nf7 h4 40.Ne5 Kf5
41.Nf3 Kg4 42.Nd4 Kg5 43.b4 h3 44.Nf3 Kf5 45.b5 b6 46.Nh2 Ke5
47.f3 Kf5 48.a3 Ke5 49.a4 Bh1 50.Ng4 Kd6 51.Nf2 Bg2 52.Ne4
Ke5 53.Kf2 Bf3? (Flear, in NEW IN CHESS #5 1992, pointed out
that 53...Ke6 draws) 54.Kf3 h2 55.Kg2 Ke4 56.c5 Kd5 57.c6 Kd6
58.Kh2 Kc7 59.Kg3 Kd6 60.Kf4 Ke6 61.Ke4 Kd6 1-0
Glenn Budzinski
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