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Ponomariov crowned champion
By Arvind Aaron
MOSCOW, JAN. 23 Ruslan Ponomariov made a draw in game seven against Vassily Ivanchuk after one hour and 15 minutes to become the youngest world chess champion in the 117-year history of the sport. He won the match by 4.5-2.5 and with a game to spare on Wednesday.
Ealier on Tuesday,Ivanchuk opened with the king pawn. Ponomariov went for the Petroff's defence, an opening he had played and relied heavily upon to get to this stage of the world championship.
Ivanchuk's new 13th move varied from the Anand vs. Adams game from Dortmund last year but soon black got equality and after the pawn sacrifice on move-19. Black's move-24 was inaccurate and it led to the simple drawn rook ending. Ivanchuk decided to make the most of this accurate move and proposed a draw on the 27th turn and it was accepted by `little Karpov'.
The game was over in a little over two-and-a-half hours.
Talking about the match so far, Ponomariov said, ``I was lucky''. Ivanchuk agreed with that. About this game, the players started to analyse at the press conference in native Ukrainian leaving the Russian press and the interpreters baffled.
The moves: GM V. Ivanchuk-GM R. Ponomariov, match game six, Petroff's defence, C42: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.0-0 Be7 8.c4 Nb4 9.Be2 0-0 10.Nc3 Be6 11.Ne5 f6 12.Nf3 Kh8 13.h3 f5 14.a3 Nc6 15.Nxd5 Bxd5 16.cxd5 Qxd5 17.Qa4 Bf6 18.Rd1 Rad8 19.Be3 f4 20.Bxf4 Nxd4 21.Nxd4 Bxd4 22.Be3 c5 23.Bxd4 cxd4 24.f3 d3 25.Qxe4 Qxe4 26.fxe4 dxe2 27.Rd5 Draw. Time left: 34.12/56.48.
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