Biography of the chess player Koryakin

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. He is a well -deserved master of sports of Ukraine and Russia, the world champion, the Olympic champion and winner of the World Cup in Chess Sports of the Year. Chess player Sergey Karyakin. The youngest grandmaster childhood and youth years, the future brilliant chess player was born in the capital of Crimea - the city of Simferopol.

Serezhina Mom was a programmer, and dad was engaged in entrepreneurship. The whole family enthusiastically played chess, the love of which was transmitted from the grandmother Tamara Vladimirovna, a school teacher of mathematics, who at one time taught the Serezhin Father. Children's photos of Sergei Karyakin at the age of five “fell ill” with chess and Karjakin Jr., hearing on TV an incomprehensible and therefore attractive phrase “The pawn becomes Ferzem”.

The curious boy was interested in the meaning of these words, and his father explained to him the rules of the game of chess. Soon this lesson completely absorbed little Seryozha, every evening he asked his father to play with him. And when he found out that there was a chess studio in the local Palace of Pioneers, he categorically stated that he would not live more without chess.

Sergei Karyakin and his parents were not recruited that year, so Seryozha was offered to demonstrate their abilities in a trial party with older children. After the first game, the coach realized that he had an incredibly gifted child in front of him and, without hesitation, wrote Seryozha into the group. From this moment, chess took the main place in the life of the boy, pushing English, computers, swimming and tennis.

Sergey Karjakin and chess at seven, Wunderkind fulfilled the norm of the first chess category, not reaching the candidate for the master a little. In elementary grades, he became a repeated winner of Ukrainian and European children's chess tournaments. Little Sergey Karjakin, the champion of Ukraine in the fourth grade, Sergey was transferred to home schooling, as he devoted to chess hours a day a day.

Sergey Karjakin in the “Evening Urgant” was soon invited to Kramatorsk, to one of the strongest chess clubs in the country, where, at the age of Ty, he, under the leadership of experienced trainers, became the youngest grandmaster in the history of chess. Under this title in the year, he was entered in the Guinness Book. Then Sergey for some time became the coach and second of the famous Ukrainian chess player Ruslan Ponomarev.

Grandmasters after the death of the director of the Kramatorsky club Mikhail Nikitich Ponomarev Sergey returned to the Crimea with his parents, but the young chess player was already closely within Ukraine. In the year, he asked Dmitry Medvedev to assign him Russian citizenship. The request was satisfied, after which Sergey became a member of the Russian team in chess and in its composition took second place at the chess Olympics of the year.

The personal life of Sergei Karyakin, despite the fan of chess bordering fanaticism, had time for a romantic relationship with girls. Moreover, the grandmaster is married to a second marriage. With his first wife, chess player Ekaterina Dolzhikova, he met in the year during the tournament in Dresden. The lovers got married in July, but after moving to Moscow, the marriage cracked.

The reason was Galiya Kamalova, the secretary of the capital's chess federation, who was instructed to take patronage over Sergey. The girl was three years older than her lover.

Sergei Karyakin and his wife and son in May Karyakin and Kamalov got married, after a year and a half they had a son Alexei. In an interview, Galia said that Sergey is a cheerful and caring father and loves to mess with the baby. Sergei Karjakin now in November Karyakin participated in the World Chess Championship. His main rival was the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen. The match of chess masters consisted of 12 parties; After the game, the score was equal-for leaving the situation, the players were offered a tie-break, following which Karlsen won Karlsen VS Karyakin.

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