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Vincent Keymer wins the Grenke Open!
April 2, 2018
Peter Leko, commentating at the Grenke Classic, mentioned that he is helping young German prodigy Vincent Keymer with tournament preparation.
Vincent was born 15 November 2004 and is thus 13-years-old.
The Open included over 100 titled players and over 900 participants in total. First prize is 15,000 euro.
From the official site:
http://grenkechessopen.de/de/
"Vincent Keymer wins the A Open with 8 points from 9 games. The great young German hope started as No. 100 in the seedings and left more than 50 grandmasters behind. Keymer qualified for the Grenke Chess Classic in 2019."
Two photos accompany the article.
His progress, round-by-round:
Rd 1 Keymer, Vincent (2403) - Maedler, Thomas (2087) 1-0
Rd 2 Humburg, Philipp (2204) - Keymer, Vincent (2403) 0-1
Rd 3 Keymer, Vincent (2403) - Korobov, Anton (2664) 0.5-0.5
Rd 4 Karsay, Pascal (2148) - Keymer, Vincent (2403) 0-1
Rd 5 Riff, Jean-Noel (2503) - Keymer, Vincent (2403) 0.5-0.5
Rd 6 Keymer, Vincent (2403) - Valsecchi, Alessio (2510) 1-0
Rd 7 Buhmann, Rainer (2588) - Keymer, Vincent (2403) 0-1
Rd 8 Keymer, Vincent (2403) - Papp, Gabor (2604) 1-0
Rd 9 Rapport, Richard (2715) - Keymer, Vincent (2403) 0-1
Available games from the Open
Grenke Chess Open 2018
Karsruhe, GER
Round 3, Mar. 30
Keymer, Vincent - Korobov, Anton
D24 QGA
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.e3 a6 6.a4 c5 7.Bxc4 Nc6 8.O-O Be7 9.Qe2 O-O 10.Rd1 Qc7 11.dxc5 Bxc5 12.Bd2 b6 13.Bd3 Bb7 14.Ne4 Nxe4 15.Bxe4 Qe7 16.Rac1 Rfd8 17.Bc3 Nb4 18.Bxb7 Qxb7 19.Bxb4 Bxb4 20.Ne5 Rxd1+ 21.Qxd1 Rc8 22.g3 Be7 23.Rxc8+ Qxc8 24.Qf3 Bf6 25.Nc6 Qd7 26.b4 h6 27.b5 axb5 28.axb5 Qd3 1/2-1/2
Round 5, Mar. 31
Riff, Jean-Noel - Keymer, Vncent
B41 Sicilian, Kan variation
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Be2 Nf6 6.Nc3 Qc7 7.O-O Bc5 8.Qd3 Nc6 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.Na4 Be7 11.c4 d5 12.Nc3 Bb7 13.Bf3 O-O 14.cxd5 cxd5 15.exd5 Rfd8 16.Be3 Nxd5 17.Nxd5 Bxd5 18.Rac1 Qe5 19.Bxd5 Rxd5 20.Qc3 Qxc3 1/2-1/2
Round 6, Apr. 1
Keymer, Vincent - Valsecchi, Alessio
A33 English, symmetrical, Geller variation
1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 Nf6 3.d4 e6 4.Nc3 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nc6 6.g3 Qb6 7.Nf3 Bb4 8.Bg2 Ne4 9.O-O Nxc3 10.bxc3 Be7 11.Be3 Qc7 12.c5 O-O 13.Nd4 Nxd4 14.cxd4 d5 15.cxd6 Bxd6 16.Qb3 Rb8 17.Rac1 Qe7 18.Rfd1 b5 19.Bc6 a6 20.Rc2 Bb7 21.d5 exd5 22.Rxd5 Bc8 23.Qd3 Bb4 24.Bg5 Qe6 25.Qd4 Be7 26.Bf4 Qg6 27.Rc1 Be6 28.Bxb8 Bxd5 29.Bxd5 Rxb8 30.Qa7 Qd6 31.Rc6 Qe5 32.f4 Qxd5 33.Qxb8+ Bf8 34.Qb6 Qxa2 35.Qe3 a5 36.Rc8 Qb1+ 37.Kg2 Qb4 38.Qd3 Qe7 39.Qxb5 Qe4+ 40.Kg1 Qd4+ 41.Kf1 a4 42.Qc4 Qd1+ 43.Kg2 a3 44.Qd3 Qa4 45.Qd6 1-0
Round 7, Apr. 1
Buhmann, Rainer - Keymer, Vincent
E11 Bogo-Indian Defence
1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.g3 Bb4+ 5.Bd2 Be7 6.Bg2 O-O 7.O-O c6 8.Bf4 Nbd7 9.Qc2 b6 10.Nbd2 Ba6 11.e4 dxc4 12.Nxc4 Nxe4 13.Rfe1 Nef6 14.Nfe5 Nxe5 15.Nxe5 Rc8 16.Nxc6 Bb5 17.Nxe7+ Qxe7 18.Qd2 Qd7 19.Be5 Nd5 20.Bxg7 Kxg7 21.Bxd5 exd5 22.Qg5+ Kh8 23.Qf6+ Kg8 24.Re5 Bd3 25.h4 Rc6 26.Qg5+ Rg6 27.Rxd5 Qc6 28.Rc1 Rxg5 29.Rxg5+ Qg6 30.Rc7 a5 31.Rc6 b5 32.b3 Qxg5 33.hxg5 Re8 34.Ra6 Re1+ 35.Kg2 Be4+ 36.f3 Re2+ 37.Kf1 Bd3 38.Kg1 Rxa2 0-1
Round 8, Apr. 2
Keymer, Vincent - Papp, Gabor
E67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 O-O 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.Bf4 e5 8.dxe5 dxe5 9.Nxe5 Nh5 10.Nd3 Nxf4 11.Nxf4 c6 12.O-O Qb6 13.Nd3 Ne5 14.c5 Qa5 15.b4 Qa3 16.Qc1 Nc4 17.Ne4 Be6 18.Qxa3 Nxa3 19.Rac1 Nb5 20.Nd6 Nc3 21.Rc2 Rab8 22.Nf4 Bd7 23.Rfc1 Na4 24.Rd1 a6 25.Rd3 Rfd8 26.Nxb7 Rxb7 27.Bxc6 Bxc6 28.Rxd8+ Bf8 29.Rc8 Bd7 30.Ra8 Rxb4 31.c6 Rb1+ 32.Kg2 Bf5 33.Nd3 Nb6 34.Rb8 Rb5 35.a4 Nxa4 36.c7 Nb6 37.Rc5 Rb3 38.Rxf5 gxf5 39.c8=Q Nxc8 40.Rxb3 Kg7 41.Rb8 Nd6 42.Ra8 Nb5 43.Rxa6 Nd4 44.Nf4 h6 45.e3 Nb5 46.Nh5+ Kh7 47.Nf6+ Kg7 48.Ne8+ Kg8 49.Ra5 1-0
Round 9, Apr. 2
Rapport, Richard - Keymer, Vincent
D53 QGD, Orthodox Defence
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 h6 6.Bh4 O-O 7.Rc1 Nbd7 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Bd3 c6 10.Bg3 Re8 11.h3 Bb4 12.Nf3 Ne4 13.Bf4 c5 14.O-O Bxc3 15.bxc3 Nb6 16.Ne5 f6 17.Ng4 c4 18.Bb1 h5 19.Nh2 g5 20.Qxh5 gxf4 21.f3 Nd6 22.Qh7+ Kf8 23.Qh6+ Ke7 24.Qg7+ Ke6 25.Rfe1 Re7 26.Qg4+ f5 27.Bxf5+ Nxf5 28.Qg6+ Kd7 29.Qxf5+ Kc6 30.Qxf4 Be6 31.e4 Qg8 32.Qh6 Kc7 33.Kh1 Rf8 34.Re2 Rh7 35.Qd2 Kb8 36.Rce1 dxe4 37.fxe4 Bd7 38.Rf2 Re8 39.Qf4+ Ka8 40.Nf3 Rf8 41.Qh2 Na4 42.Re3 a6 43.Qe5 Bxh3 44.Kg1 Rg7 45.Nh4 Rxf2 46.Kxf2 Rxg2+ 47.Nxg2 Qxg2+ 48.Ke1 Qf1+ 49.Kd2 Bg4 50.Qe8+ Ka7 51.Qxa4 Qf2+ 0-1
Final position in Rapport-Keymer
Chessbomb kibitzers comments on Rapport-Keymer:
- I think Vincent has secured his GM norm
- Actually f6 was the game winner
- The winner gets an invitation for next years Grenke supertournament
- What a game!
- Just looked this guy up. He is like 13 years old and is about to win this thing to play the big boys next time
- This young man has all the time for growing up to highest levels. That's really fantastic! Let him play draw here and he belongs to the top of Grenke 2018
- Beating a 2700 would be a huge upset and a defining stepping-stone in his chess development
- He is also a very talented musician ! amazing kid
- He has wasted precious time on piano
- Maybe his piano teacher thinks he is wasting time on chess
- He has to see Bxh3
- What an achievement if he wins.
- Whoa, Vincent your first 2700+
- Super GM scalps will follow
- They will - he started beating GMs at the age of 10
- Winning this open at 13! Good lord
- And they say his piano playing is 2800 level
- One of the most eye-catching performances I've seen
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Leonard Barden on the EC Forum
"That was the most significant result of all today at Karlsruhe. Keymer scored the youngest IM norm ever at 10 years 3 months but also has a career as a musician. There's a Chessbase article where Kasparov met him and praised him very highly. Significant because it's a teenage megatalent from Western Europe as against the Russians, Americans, Indians and the Uzbek Abdusattorov. He was lucky in that both Rapport and his previous opponent spurned perpetual check, but still...."
https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic...213336#p213336
________
The Chessbase article and a picture of Vincent and Garry is at
https://en.chessbase.com/post/chess-...nt-meets-garry
April 2, 2018
Peter Leko, commentating at the Grenke Classic, mentioned that he is helping young German prodigy Vincent Keymer with tournament preparation.
Vincent was born 15 November 2004 and is thus 13-years-old.
The Open included over 100 titled players and over 900 participants in total. First prize is 15,000 euro.
From the official site:
http://grenkechessopen.de/de/
"Vincent Keymer wins the A Open with 8 points from 9 games. The great young German hope started as No. 100 in the seedings and left more than 50 grandmasters behind. Keymer qualified for the Grenke Chess Classic in 2019."
Two photos accompany the article.
His progress, round-by-round:
Rd 1 Keymer, Vincent (2403) - Maedler, Thomas (2087) 1-0
Rd 2 Humburg, Philipp (2204) - Keymer, Vincent (2403) 0-1
Rd 3 Keymer, Vincent (2403) - Korobov, Anton (2664) 0.5-0.5
Rd 4 Karsay, Pascal (2148) - Keymer, Vincent (2403) 0-1
Rd 5 Riff, Jean-Noel (2503) - Keymer, Vincent (2403) 0.5-0.5
Rd 6 Keymer, Vincent (2403) - Valsecchi, Alessio (2510) 1-0
Rd 7 Buhmann, Rainer (2588) - Keymer, Vincent (2403) 0-1
Rd 8 Keymer, Vincent (2403) - Papp, Gabor (2604) 1-0
Rd 9 Rapport, Richard (2715) - Keymer, Vincent (2403) 0-1
Available games from the Open
Grenke Chess Open 2018
Karsruhe, GER
Round 3, Mar. 30
Keymer, Vincent - Korobov, Anton
D24 QGA
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.e3 a6 6.a4 c5 7.Bxc4 Nc6 8.O-O Be7 9.Qe2 O-O 10.Rd1 Qc7 11.dxc5 Bxc5 12.Bd2 b6 13.Bd3 Bb7 14.Ne4 Nxe4 15.Bxe4 Qe7 16.Rac1 Rfd8 17.Bc3 Nb4 18.Bxb7 Qxb7 19.Bxb4 Bxb4 20.Ne5 Rxd1+ 21.Qxd1 Rc8 22.g3 Be7 23.Rxc8+ Qxc8 24.Qf3 Bf6 25.Nc6 Qd7 26.b4 h6 27.b5 axb5 28.axb5 Qd3 1/2-1/2
Round 5, Mar. 31
Riff, Jean-Noel - Keymer, Vncent
B41 Sicilian, Kan variation
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Be2 Nf6 6.Nc3 Qc7 7.O-O Bc5 8.Qd3 Nc6 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.Na4 Be7 11.c4 d5 12.Nc3 Bb7 13.Bf3 O-O 14.cxd5 cxd5 15.exd5 Rfd8 16.Be3 Nxd5 17.Nxd5 Bxd5 18.Rac1 Qe5 19.Bxd5 Rxd5 20.Qc3 Qxc3 1/2-1/2
Round 6, Apr. 1
Keymer, Vincent - Valsecchi, Alessio
A33 English, symmetrical, Geller variation
1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 Nf6 3.d4 e6 4.Nc3 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nc6 6.g3 Qb6 7.Nf3 Bb4 8.Bg2 Ne4 9.O-O Nxc3 10.bxc3 Be7 11.Be3 Qc7 12.c5 O-O 13.Nd4 Nxd4 14.cxd4 d5 15.cxd6 Bxd6 16.Qb3 Rb8 17.Rac1 Qe7 18.Rfd1 b5 19.Bc6 a6 20.Rc2 Bb7 21.d5 exd5 22.Rxd5 Bc8 23.Qd3 Bb4 24.Bg5 Qe6 25.Qd4 Be7 26.Bf4 Qg6 27.Rc1 Be6 28.Bxb8 Bxd5 29.Bxd5 Rxb8 30.Qa7 Qd6 31.Rc6 Qe5 32.f4 Qxd5 33.Qxb8+ Bf8 34.Qb6 Qxa2 35.Qe3 a5 36.Rc8 Qb1+ 37.Kg2 Qb4 38.Qd3 Qe7 39.Qxb5 Qe4+ 40.Kg1 Qd4+ 41.Kf1 a4 42.Qc4 Qd1+ 43.Kg2 a3 44.Qd3 Qa4 45.Qd6 1-0
Round 7, Apr. 1
Buhmann, Rainer - Keymer, Vincent
E11 Bogo-Indian Defence
1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.g3 Bb4+ 5.Bd2 Be7 6.Bg2 O-O 7.O-O c6 8.Bf4 Nbd7 9.Qc2 b6 10.Nbd2 Ba6 11.e4 dxc4 12.Nxc4 Nxe4 13.Rfe1 Nef6 14.Nfe5 Nxe5 15.Nxe5 Rc8 16.Nxc6 Bb5 17.Nxe7+ Qxe7 18.Qd2 Qd7 19.Be5 Nd5 20.Bxg7 Kxg7 21.Bxd5 exd5 22.Qg5+ Kh8 23.Qf6+ Kg8 24.Re5 Bd3 25.h4 Rc6 26.Qg5+ Rg6 27.Rxd5 Qc6 28.Rc1 Rxg5 29.Rxg5+ Qg6 30.Rc7 a5 31.Rc6 b5 32.b3 Qxg5 33.hxg5 Re8 34.Ra6 Re1+ 35.Kg2 Be4+ 36.f3 Re2+ 37.Kf1 Bd3 38.Kg1 Rxa2 0-1
Round 8, Apr. 2
Keymer, Vincent - Papp, Gabor
E67 King's Indian, Fianchetto
1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 g6 4.g3 Bg7 5.Bg2 O-O 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.Bf4 e5 8.dxe5 dxe5 9.Nxe5 Nh5 10.Nd3 Nxf4 11.Nxf4 c6 12.O-O Qb6 13.Nd3 Ne5 14.c5 Qa5 15.b4 Qa3 16.Qc1 Nc4 17.Ne4 Be6 18.Qxa3 Nxa3 19.Rac1 Nb5 20.Nd6 Nc3 21.Rc2 Rab8 22.Nf4 Bd7 23.Rfc1 Na4 24.Rd1 a6 25.Rd3 Rfd8 26.Nxb7 Rxb7 27.Bxc6 Bxc6 28.Rxd8+ Bf8 29.Rc8 Bd7 30.Ra8 Rxb4 31.c6 Rb1+ 32.Kg2 Bf5 33.Nd3 Nb6 34.Rb8 Rb5 35.a4 Nxa4 36.c7 Nb6 37.Rc5 Rb3 38.Rxf5 gxf5 39.c8=Q Nxc8 40.Rxb3 Kg7 41.Rb8 Nd6 42.Ra8 Nb5 43.Rxa6 Nd4 44.Nf4 h6 45.e3 Nb5 46.Nh5+ Kh7 47.Nf6+ Kg7 48.Ne8+ Kg8 49.Ra5 1-0
Round 9, Apr. 2
Rapport, Richard - Keymer, Vincent
D53 QGD, Orthodox Defence
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Be7 5.e3 h6 6.Bh4 O-O 7.Rc1 Nbd7 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Bd3 c6 10.Bg3 Re8 11.h3 Bb4 12.Nf3 Ne4 13.Bf4 c5 14.O-O Bxc3 15.bxc3 Nb6 16.Ne5 f6 17.Ng4 c4 18.Bb1 h5 19.Nh2 g5 20.Qxh5 gxf4 21.f3 Nd6 22.Qh7+ Kf8 23.Qh6+ Ke7 24.Qg7+ Ke6 25.Rfe1 Re7 26.Qg4+ f5 27.Bxf5+ Nxf5 28.Qg6+ Kd7 29.Qxf5+ Kc6 30.Qxf4 Be6 31.e4 Qg8 32.Qh6 Kc7 33.Kh1 Rf8 34.Re2 Rh7 35.Qd2 Kb8 36.Rce1 dxe4 37.fxe4 Bd7 38.Rf2 Re8 39.Qf4+ Ka8 40.Nf3 Rf8 41.Qh2 Na4 42.Re3 a6 43.Qe5 Bxh3 44.Kg1 Rg7 45.Nh4 Rxf2 46.Kxf2 Rxg2+ 47.Nxg2 Qxg2+ 48.Ke1 Qf1+ 49.Kd2 Bg4 50.Qe8+ Ka7 51.Qxa4 Qf2+ 0-1
Final position in Rapport-Keymer
Chessbomb kibitzers comments on Rapport-Keymer:
- I think Vincent has secured his GM norm
- Actually f6 was the game winner
- The winner gets an invitation for next years Grenke supertournament
- What a game!
- Just looked this guy up. He is like 13 years old and is about to win this thing to play the big boys next time
- This young man has all the time for growing up to highest levels. That's really fantastic! Let him play draw here and he belongs to the top of Grenke 2018
- Beating a 2700 would be a huge upset and a defining stepping-stone in his chess development
- He is also a very talented musician ! amazing kid
- He has wasted precious time on piano
- Maybe his piano teacher thinks he is wasting time on chess
- He has to see Bxh3
- What an achievement if he wins.
- Whoa, Vincent your first 2700+
- Super GM scalps will follow
- They will - he started beating GMs at the age of 10
- Winning this open at 13! Good lord
- And they say his piano playing is 2800 level
- One of the most eye-catching performances I've seen
_________
Leonard Barden on the EC Forum
"That was the most significant result of all today at Karlsruhe. Keymer scored the youngest IM norm ever at 10 years 3 months but also has a career as a musician. There's a Chessbase article where Kasparov met him and praised him very highly. Significant because it's a teenage megatalent from Western Europe as against the Russians, Americans, Indians and the Uzbek Abdusattorov. He was lucky in that both Rapport and his previous opponent spurned perpetual check, but still...."
https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic...213336#p213336
________
The Chessbase article and a picture of Vincent and Garry is at
https://en.chessbase.com/post/chess-...nt-meets-garry
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