New Directions in the Exchange Grunfeld - TWIC Theory #4-[Karolyi Martin]休闲.pdf

TWIC THEORY Tuesday 22nd March, 2005 NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE EXCHANGE GRUNFELD By IM Tibor Karolyi and IM Andrew Martin Tibor Karolyi is an International Master, and Trainer. Hello, Im Tibor Karolyi. As a player my best result was to win the Hungarian Open championship in 1984. Between 1977 and 1986 I was a training partner of Zsuzsa Polgar. I started to train in 1989, my very first pupil was the 10 year-old Peter Leko. I estimate his level was 1900; he made 0 point out of 9 in a category III tournament. We stopped working together in October 1993; by that time he had 2 grandmaster norms and an Elo rating of 2555. Three months later, he broke the record for the youngest ever grandmaster. In 1998 we started to work together again, our work ended at end of 2000. In 1994 I trained Sofia Polgar for six months. She increased her Elo by 70 points. She took a silver medal at the world junior championship (under 20) for boys. Shortly after we stopped working together, she made 12.5 points out of 14 on board two at the Moscow Olympiad. My third GM pupil is Zoltan Gyimesi; his best result was the bronze medal at the world championship under 20. I trained Zoltan from 1991 to 2000; we started to train when he was 14. From 1997 to 2000, I trained women GM Ildiko Madl. She made decent scores when I prepared her for 4 world events. Her result included 6.5 out of 9 on board 1 at the Batumi European Championship. Monika Grabics won the Hungarian womens championship; she also made a 2540 performance beating several grandmasters, including Sax. My pupils have won 7 medals in world junior championships. Tejas Bakre from India won the Asian under 20. Jure Borisek (Slovenia) was 57th at world junior under 14 in 1999. After some intensive training with me, he made 3-6 place at the same tournament. I ha