25 years old Russia’s Sergey Karjakin has won the chess World Cup by defeating his opponent Peter Svidler by 6-4 in the final.
With this both Karjakin and Svidler qualified for the Candidates tournament for the next world championship that to be held next March. India’s Viswanathan Anand and the two Americans Fabiana Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura are also qualified for world championship.
ABOUT SERGEY KARJAKIN
- He is 1990 born Ukrainian-born Russian chess grandmaster.
- He is having the record of youngest Grandmaster at the age of 12 years and 7 months.
- Karjakin won the 2012 World Rapid Chess Championship and the Chess World Cup 2015.
- He bagged Norway Chess Tournament twice (2013, 2014) and the Corus Chess Tournament in 2009.
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