Fabiano Caruana

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Fabiano Caruana, 2013
Association United StatesUnited States United States (until 2005, since 2015) Italy (2005 to 2015)
ItalyItaly 
Born July 30, 1992
Miami , Florida , United States
title International Master (2006)
Grand Master (2007)
Current  Elo rating 2835 (August 2020)
Best Elo rating 2844 (October 2014)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992 in Miami , Florida ) is an American - Italian chess grandmaster of the world class. He has US and Italian citizenship . In July 2007 he fulfilled his last grandmaster norm at the First Saturday tournament in Budapest , making him the youngest Italian chess player to ever succeed at the age of 14 years, 11 months and 20 days. By 2014, he was also the youngest American player to do so; now this is Samuel Sevian .

Chess career

Caruana was born in 1992 in Miami, Florida, to his parents of Italian descent . In 1996 his parents moved him to Brooklyn , New York , where he was discovered by the well-known chess coach Bruce Pandolfini at the age of five . Caruana celebrated his first international successes at the Pan-American Championships: in 2002 he won the tournament for under-ten-year-olds, and the following year he won the under-twelve-year-old title. In between, Caruana made headlines in the United States in September 2002 when he defeated grandmaster Aleksander Wojtkiewicz in a Grand Prix tournament at Manhattan's Marshall Chess Club . At the age of ten years and 117 days, he replaced Hikaru Nakamura as the youngest player to date to beat a chess grandmaster in a tournament supported by the US Chess Federation . In 2005, the 13-year-old caused a sensation in Germany : at the Klaus Junge -Open in Hamburg he was surprisingly able to defeat the Slovakian grandmaster Ľubomír Ftáčnik .

From October 2005 to June 2015 Fabiano Caruana played for Italy. In his first Italian individual championship at the end of 2006 in Cremona , he finished first, tied with Michele Godena , but lost the playoff for the title with a score of 1.5: 2.5. In December 2007 he was in Martina Franca with 9.5 points from 11 games of Italian individual champion. Caruana achieved his first two grandmaster norms in March and April 2007, as well as his last norm at First Saturday tournaments in Budapest. His trainer is the Hungarian grandmaster Alexander Csernyin .

In August 2007 Caruana won the Hogeschool Zeeland- Open in Vlissingen , the Netherlands , tied with three players (including Sergey Tiviakov and Ralf Appel ), but with the best rating . In the last round he drew against ex- FIDE world champion Rustam Kasimjanov , who finished sixth.

In January 2008 Caruana won the C group of the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee , he won with 10 points from 13 games with two points ahead of Parimarjan Negi and Dimitri Reinderman . In December 2008 he defended his title at the Italian individual championship in Martina Franca with 8 points from 11 games. In January 2009 Caruana started in the B group of the Corus tournament in Wijk aan Zee. Surprisingly, he won the strong category 16 tournament with 8.5 points from 13 games, as with a lot of luck he was able to beat the British Nigel Short , who had been leading until then, in the last round . In December 2010 he won the Italian individual championship for the third time in Siena with 9 points from 11 games. In July 2011 Caruana won with 7 points from 10 games at the AAI tournament in New Delhi (category 17). He dominated the Italian individual championship in 2011 in Perugia with 10 points from 11 games (+9 = 2 −0), three and a half points ahead of the runner-up.

In July 2012 Fabiano Caruana won the 40th Dortmund Chess Days with 6 points from 9 games (+4 = 4 −1) thanks to a better score ahead of Sergei Karjakin . In 2014 he won the 42nd Dortmund Chess Days with one round to go. Fabiano Caruana was even the winner of the Sinquefield Cup tournament in St. Louis in August / September 2014 with two rounds to go . He won with 8.5 points from 10 games and thus three points ahead of Magnus Carlsen (5.5 points). Caruana's result in St. Louis corresponds to an Elo performance of 3103. This surpassed the highest Elo performance in a tournament to date (3002, achieved by Carlsen in 2010 in Nanjing).

In the 2016 World Chess Championship candidates tournament , he finished second. In April 2016, Caruana won the United States Championship . In April 2017 he finished second in the Grenke Chess Classic ahead of world champion Magnus Carlsen and behind Lewon Aronjan . In December 2017 he won the London Chess Classic after a victory in the tiebreak over Ian Nepomniachi .

As one of two players who (apart from the players already seeded) had the best Elo rating on average in 2017 and who took part in the 2017 World Cup or Grand Prix, he qualified for the candidates ' tournament in March 2018, which he won with 9 points from 14 games won. This he qualified as a challenger to the world champion and kicked Magnus Carlsen in November 2018 on . The 12 regular games all ended in a draw, but in the tie-break Caruana lost 3-0 in quick games against Carlsen.

On April 9, 2018, he won the Grenke Chess Classic 2018 with one point ahead of Carlsen. On June 7, 2018, he won the Altibox Norway Chess 2018 with a half point lead over Carlsen. In September 2018 he won the Sinquefield Cup together with Magnus Carlsen and Lewon Aronjan.

Elo development

Team chess

National team

Caruana played on the top board of the Italian team at the 2008 , 2010 and 2012 Chess Olympiads . In 2016 he represented the USA for the first time at a Chess Olympiad. With this team he won the gold medal, with Caruana again playing on the top board. From 2007 to 2013 he took part in four European team championships .

Club chess

For OSG Baden-Baden at the 2017 Bundesliga finals in Berlin

In the German Federal Chess League he played for the OSG Baden-Baden from 2008 to 2010 and became German team champion with them in 2009 and 2010 . Caruana has been playing for Baden-Baden again since the 2016/17 season and became champions in 2017 , 2018 and 2019 . In the Swiss National League A he played for the chess company Winterthur from 2010 to 2012 , and in the French Top 12 Caruana played for Évry Grand Roque in the 2010/11 season . Fabiano Caruana won the Austrian Bundesliga in 2009 with SK Husek Wien , in the Russian team championship he has been playing for SchSM-64 Moscow since 2009 and became the Russian team champion in 2010 and 2011. In the Spanish team championship he played in 2009 and 2010 for the team of CA Linex-Magic Mérida , with which he became champions in 2009 .

At the European Club Cup Caruana took in 2009 and 2011 SchSM-64 Moscow in part, in 2013 and 2015 with the team of SOCAR Baku , which reached 2,013 third place in 2015 to second place, and 2014 with Obiettivo risarcimento Padova , where he achieved the best individual result on the top board.

Game example

Magnus Carlsen – Fabiano Caruana
  a b c d e f G H  
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7th Chess pdt45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess kdt45.svg 7th
6th Chess --t45.svg Chess bdt45.svg Chess pdt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess pdt45.svg 6th
5 Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 5
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3 Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg 3
2 Chess plt45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess --t45.svg Chess plt45.svg Chess klt45.svg 2
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End position after 34 ... Qg1 +

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Caruana won the following game with the black stones at the Sinquefield Cup in St. Louis 2014 against world champion Carlsen.

Magnus Carlsen – Fabiano Caruana 0-1
St. Louis, August 29, 2014
King's runner game , C24
1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. d3 c6 4. Nf3 d5 5. Bb3 Bb4 + 6. c3 Bd6 7. Bg5 dxe4 8. dxe4 h6 9. Bh4 De7 10. Nbd2 Nbd7 11. Bg3 Bc7 12. 0–0 Nh5 13.h3 Nxg3 14.fxg3 Nc5 15. Bxf7 + Kxf7 16.Nxe5 + Kg8 17.Ng6 Qg5 18.Rf8 + Kh7 19.Nxh8 Bg4 20.Qf1 Nd3 21.Qxd3 Rxf8 22.hxg4 Qxg4 23.Nf3 Qxg3 24. e5 + Kxh8 25. e6 Bb6 + 26. Kh1 Qg4 27. Qd6 Rd8 28. De5 Rd5 29. Qb8 + Kh7 30. e7 Qh5 + 31.Nh2 Rd1 + 32.Rxd1 Qxd1 + 33.Nf1 Qxf1 + 34.Kh2 Qg1 + 0: 1

literature

  • Alexander Kalinin: Fabiano Caruana. His Amazing Story and His Most Instructive Chess Games . New in Chess, Alkmaar 2018. ISBN 978-90-5691-813-2 .

Web links

Commons : Fabiano Caruana  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. Report at chessbase.com
  2. ^ Article in the Hamburger Abendblatt , October 8, 2005
  3. ^ Association change 2005 at FIDE (English)
  4. ↑ Change of Association 2015 at FIDE (English)
  5. Italian Individual Championship 2006 (English)
  6. Italian Individual Championship 2007 (English)
  7. Interview at Chessbase
  8. tournament page (Italian)
  9. 70 ° Campionato Italiano Assoluto , accessed on December 6, 2010.
  10. 71. Campionato Italiano Assoluto , accessed December 15, 2011.
  11. Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2012–2040. International Dortmund Chess Days on TeleSchess
  12. Sparkassen Chess Meeting 2014–2042. International Dortmund Chess Days on TeleSchess
  13. Johannes Fischer: Sinquefield Cup: Three draws at the end. In: Chess News. chessbase, September 7, 2014, accessed September 8, 2014 .
  14. Stefan Löffler: Like a machine. The only 22 year old Fabiano Caruana teaches world chess champion Carlsen to fear. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 8, 2014, p. 32.
  15. Numbers according to FIDE Elo lists. Data sources: fide.com (period since 2001), olimpbase.org (period 1971 to 2001)
  16. Fabiano Caruana's results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  17. Fabiano Caruana's results at European Team Championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  18. Fabiano Caruana's results at Spanish team championships on olimpbase.org (English)
  19. Fabiano Caruana's results at European Club Cups on olimpbase.org (English)