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Roberto Lavieri wrote on Mon, Mar 14, 2005 10:53 PM UTC:
Who is going to be the next Chess super-star in the future?. For some
years, Anand, Kramnik, Topalov, Leko and Adams are going to be in the
top... until the next generation gain force enough. I´ll be temerary with
the following short list, but I bet one or more of them are going to be in
the top 10 positions in less than 10 years, and one of them can be fighting
for the World Championship... Choose your candidate:

 1  Radjabov, Teimour  
 2  Harikrishna, Sasirikan
 3  Nakamura, Hikaru  
 4  Karjakin, Sergey  
 5  Carlsen, Magnus

Has you any other in mind?

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Tue, Mar 15, 2005 01:31 AM UTC:
I agree, add Bacrot and Grischuk... I was tempted to add Francisco Vallejo,
but he is an irregular player in his results. My main candidates for 2013
still are the solid Nakamura (Kramnik style?) and the creative Karjiakin,
I have seen a few games played by these two young players, and both are
very deep strong players, each one in his style. I have not seen games
played by Teimour Radjabov, but I have read he is an unorthodox player
(Harikrishna too), and many times he plays in extreme risks, somewhat
Fischer style.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Tue, Mar 15, 2005 02:06 AM UTC:
The little boy Magnus Carlsen is a good candidate for the future. This
child is the youngest Grand-Master in the world. Kasparov has signailed
him as possible succesor (recently, Magnus finished in a draw a game
against Kasparov in a rapid Tournament), and he is in a meteoric ascense.
This year, Magnus has beated Alexei Shirov (!)...

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Tue, Mar 15, 2005 02:15 AM UTC:
There are only a few players in the world that have beated Garry Kasparov
ate least once. Teimour Radjabov beated Kasparov in Linares 2003, when
Teimour was 15 y.o. (!)

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Tue, Mar 15, 2005 02:26 AM UTC:
This year, Bacrot won the strong 6th Poikovsky Karpov Tournament... This
year, Harikrishna won (tied with Gelfand (>2700!) ), the Bermuda Festival
Tournament.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Tue, Mar 15, 2005 10:12 PM UTC:
Some young talents are growing and mastering step by step, it is a
difficult path to the top. Regularity is important, many good players have
good days and bad days, but performance must be mantained, more or less.
Karjakin still needs time, he has showed excellent results many times, and
bad results other days. In his match against Nakamura in Mexico, he was
smashed by Hikaru, but it is not indicative yet, we need wait to see the
next confrontations. I was tempted to add Francisco Vallejo, a notorious
strong young Spanish player, but he is irregular sometimes, you can see
fantastic performances followed by relatively poor results, although he
has some extraordinary merits, Vallejo is the only player in the World
that has beated Deep Blue in a match, in an exhibition by IBM.

Roberto Lavieri wrote on Wed, Mar 16, 2005 12:14 AM UTC:
Aclaratory: Vallejo beated the program Deep Blue installed in a less
powerful parallel machine than the supercomputer used against Kasparov. It
does not demerit the fact, he was the only player who could do that in a
match, before IBM retired the program. In this days, the last version of
FRITZ is almost unbeatible when installed in a very powerful machine.

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