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[martin @odumsky]

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@SusanPolgar @FIDE_chess Hikaru Nakamura 💪🏾

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@askavrukh Was this under classical or faster TC? Maybe time pressure

[Ruhi Chess @Ruhichess]

The youngest World Chess Champion in history is a Ukrainian

This is the story of Ruslan Ponomariov, "Pono". It is not the typical story of success, nor it is one of struggle for victory. It is way more interesting than that.

Ponomariov was a child of extraordinary talent. At the age of 12, he was rated 2550, 100 points higher than Magnus Carlsen at the same age. He won the under-18 European Championship at the age 13, and the under-18 World Championship at 14; incredible feats that will likely never be repeated. Ponomariov became the youngest grandmaster in history at the time. He raised through the ranks quickly, and by age 17 he was ranked 21st in the world. And this is where the good stuff begins.

It is the 2001 FIDE World Cup, with the participation of all the best players in the World, with the exception of Kasparov and Kramnik who had organized their own World Championship. Ponomariov, now 18 years old, is the 19th seed of this championship by knock-out format. He wins the first round comfortably. In the second, Ponomavior eliminates a tough opponent, Segei Tiviakov. In the third, he beats Kiril Georgiev (rated 2684) 2-0. At this point, Ponomariov goes on a streak of upsets, eliminating higher-rated opponents one after the other: First Morozevich, then Bareev and finally Svidler. He has made it to the final, where he will have to face none other than his Ukrainian compatriot Vasyl Ivanchuk, a chess legend.

To everybody’s shock, Ponomariov wins the first game of the final in only 23 moves. This is one of the most impressive games you are likely to see. Ivanchuk resigned in a position where material was equal and only one pawn had been exchanged; a win by suffocation! However, the next games did not go as smoothly for Pono, as he had to struggle in lost positions a couple of times. But in the end, he won by 2-0 with several draws, and he even gifted a draw in a winning position in the last game.

Ponomariov was FIDE World Champion at 18, by far the youngest World Champion in history. However, some thought that the two-game knock-out format involved too much luck. He was regarded as the greatest promise in chess since Garry Kasparov, but he still had to prove himself. And this opportunity came right after, at the 2001 Linares tournament: one of the strongest tournaments of the year, with the participation of Kasparov himself. And guess who his rival in the first round was. Garry? No, not yet. It was Ivanchuk again! And in case there were skeptics of his victory in the World Cup, he beat him convincingly.

Ponomariov managed to keep up with Kasparov until their second face-off in the penultimate round of the tournament. They were tied at 6 points, Ponomariov had the black pieces. The opening did not turn out brilliantly for Pono, he was on the back foot early on. Soon, Kasparov sacrificed a pawn for a strong initiative. Ponomariov had a weak king and underdeveloped pieces for a sheer pawn, and it looked like he was going to get crushed. But suddenly Garry made an inaccuracy: he doubled his rook in the wrong square, allowing Ponomariov to gain a tempo and develop his dormant bishop. Suddenly Ponomariov was back in the game. He started defending with incredible precision… but right when he had to find the last defensive move, he faltered. Kasparov was all over him again, and this time the beast didn’t let him escape.

In the last game, Pono made a draw with Anand, while Kasparov won again. For a fleeting moment, it looked like Ponomariov could challenge the long-standing hegemony of Garry Kasparov. Had Ponomariov won or even drawn that game, who knows how history could have unfolded? But Kasparov proved too strong for him at such a tender age. As Pono himself said, he was World Champion too early. He was a superstar, invited to every chess exhibition. He was the great hope of chess, and this pressure probably did not do any good to him.

Losing to Garry Kasparov and being second at Linares is not a tragedy. But for Ponomariov this seemed to be a turning point. In his next classical event, the 2002 Bled Olympiad, he started strong but lost his last two games. Then he scored less than 50% in both Wijk Aan Zee and Linares. He returned to the top-10 a couple of times in his career, but it was never the same. He won several important events in his life, but he never delivered on the promise of his talent. Before he turned thirty, his rating started falling precipitously. By age 36, he had dropped out of the top-100.

Ponomariov is still an active player now at age 39. His results have improved in recent times, and he is back in the top-100. But he is very far from his 18 year old self. It is hard to explain the premature fall of Ruslan Ponomariov. But maybe, just maybe, things came too easy for him early on. And once you reach the limit of your natural development, there is no way to make progress without hard work.

[martin @odumsky]

After several sms messages that you will update GTWorld on 12/07/23, the update ended up making it impossible to log in?? Now it’s removed from Apple AppStore. Sad

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Do you remember when you joined Twitter? I do! #MyTwitterAnniversary

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@EugenePerel seen many

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@EugenePerel Hard to believe whoever wrote this has seen any GM Nepomniachti games