2007/03/15

Caruana, italo-american prodigy is growing up


He was born in Miami, United States, on 30th of July 1992. He grew up in New York and lives in Spain at the moment - with his parents -. But Fabiano Caruana now plays for Italy (his mother is Italian) and almost won the national chess championship in 2006: he finally lost 2.5-1.5 a rapid tie-break against GM Michele Godena. His last achievement is the first place at the First Saturday Tournament in Budapest, Hungary, which took place 4th-14th March 2007. With his great result (7.5/10) he scored his first GM norm. What can we say? Well... congratulations! Here is one of his most brilliant victories in Budapest, against serbian GM Zlatko Ilincic.


Ilincic (2486) - Caruana (2492) [E11], Budapest 09.03.2007
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Bb4+ 4. Bd2 Qe7 5. g3 Nc6 6. Bg2 Bxd2+ 7. Nbxd2 d6 8. O-O a5 9. e4 e5 10. d5 Nb8 11. Ne1 h5 12. Nc2 h4 13. Ne3 hxg3 14. hxg3 Nh5 15. Re1 Bd7 16. b3 g6 17. Qc2 Kf8 18. a3 Kg7 19. b4 Na6 20. Qc3 Rae8 21. Rac1 b6 22. Bf1 Bc8 23. Nf3 Nf6 24. Bd3 Ng4 25. Kg2 Nxe3+ 26. Rxe3 Bh3+ 27. Kg1 Nb8 28. bxa5 Nd7 29. axb6 cxb6 30. Bf1 Nf6 31. Bxh3 Rxh3 32. Kg2 Reh8 33. Ree1 Qd7 34. Ng1 Rh1 35. Qf3 Ng4 36. Re2 R8h2+ 37. Kf1 Rh5 38. Qb3 Nh2+ 39. Kg2 Qg4 40. Re3 Nf1 41. Kxf1 Rxg1+ 42. Kxg1 Qh3 0-1

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