Fabiano Caruana, American chess player: biography, sporting achievements
Fabiano Caruana is a world-famous chess player,He is for the US, but has Italian roots. He became one of the youngest grandmasters in history. He is a multiple chess champion, and also a possible candidate to win the championship under the name of the 2016 Challenger Tournament.
General biography
Caruño became one of the most famous figures in thethe chess world in just a few years. And it's not even that the guy has made tremendous progress at such a young age - in his 23 years the chess player has repeatedly played with the legend of this game, Magnus Carlsen, and the rivalry on both sides was tense, which was unusual for the games with the current World Champion (Karlsen ).
Thanks to the coaching of many Russian masters, including Alexander Chernin, Boris Zlotnik, Vladimir Chuchelov and others, Caruana acquired an incredible professionalism in his years.
A family
Fabiano Caruana was born in Miami, Florida, in1992 on the 20th of July. The boy became the third child in the family after his brother and sister, but in the future not only did not concede anything, but surpassed them in his success.
Parents of the future unique chess player werethe most ordinary people: the father is an American (hence the place of birth and the first residence of Caruana), but the mother was a burning and emotional Spaniard who could not wait to take her children to her homeland to show them a country that, like USA, is their home. Both parents equally loved the younger child and tried in every possible way to provide him with opportunities for self-development: they took him to various groups, both sporting and creative, bought books and conducted real serious conversations not only with him, but in general with all his children. The first shoots of future talent were noticed in the boy by his father. It was he who took his son to his first chess club in Brooklyn.
Childhood
When little Fabiano was only 4 years old, histhe family moved to Brooklyn. His family moved quite often, and the reason, most likely, was the eternal search for a good job in order to feed his children. At the age of 5, the boy is first fond of chess, he asks his father to teach him how to play it. Of course, he gladly takes up training, and after a while his father is also an avid chess fan and permanent member of a chess club - decides to take his son with him to the club to more clearly explain the subtleties of the game. In this club, the boy wakes up outstanding abilities. His first coach is Bruce Pandolfini, the man who corrected the first steps of Fabiano and instructed him on the path to the world of chess. Until 12 years, the coach changed - now the grandmaster Miron Sher took up a talented student. This attention from the adult experienced teachers has done its job: Caruana goes to a chess tournament in New York and wins a victory there. This first victory, as in the chain, is followed by others: the victory in the Pan-American championships, as well as his greatest achievement at the beginning of his career - a victory in the game with grandmaster Alexander Voitkevich.
As already mentioned, the Spanish mother has long dreamed ofto take the children to their own homeland, and in 2004 it succeeded: the whole family moved to Spain. Now the reason for the move was not money, but the future of a talented family member - Spain has long been considered the best city to start a chess career.
In this country, Fabiano Keruana has a newcoach - Boris Zlotnik, who will be engaged in training chess player for 3 years. Later, the Caruana family will change their place of residence again - in Hungary the young chess player is placed under the tutelage of the Russian coach Alexander Chernin, who will put the finishing touches in preparing Fabiano before the most important event in his still small at that time of life.
For the further development of the young person inthe chess world, of course, would require large financial investments, at least for foreign trips to the championships, because the parents of Caruana find for their talented sponsor's son. Henceforth, the expenses for the trips of Fabiano Caruana and participation in sports competitions fall on his shoulders, which costs a round sum - about 50 thousand dollars a year.
Breakthrough in the chess world
Further years up to the present momentfor Fabiano is just a long and difficult road to a world-wide recognition and full awareness of their own capabilities. In 2014, a young chess player, accumulated over the years of zealous training of experience, set another world record - he finished third in the Elo rating, gaining 2836 points. Such incredible success came to a young man after surprisingly played games in St. Louis. At 23 categories in this city, he showed one of the best results, gaining 8.5 points out of 10 possible.
And again Fabiano surprised everyone, beating such"Veterans" of chess sport, such as Nakamura, Carlsen and Aroyan. And the most striking thing is that after such intense games, Karuana himself did not express feelings of ecstasy about the loss of the legendary masters and was not satisfied with himself. By nature, a calm and reserved person, he just said that he still has a lot to grow and that it's too early to stop.
Preparation for most tournaments
Like many athletes, chess players haveown rituals of preparation for this or that important match. Fabiano Caruana, whose biography consists entirely of such preparations, believes that the most important rule for training before a meaningful game is not to overstrain your mind, but to keep it in tone. For any chess player, no matter what rank or title, the main qualities should be concentration, attention and restraint.
Once coach Caruana, Vladimir Chuchelov,told me that the preparation of Fabiano for the championships did not last as long as one might think, judging by his played games. Despite the short training, she invariably came out intense.
Strongest opponents
Repeatedly mentioned phenomenalKaruana's ability to destroy the stereotype of the invincibility of many legendary chess players. In frequent battles with Carlsen, Nakamura, the young man feels confident despite the outcome of the game. However, if he was lucky with such strong and already well-known opponents, then with new talents he clearly felt competition.
In a match with Anish Giri, a strong Dutchchess player, Fabiano felt no longer so unbreakable. Both young grandmasters fought hard until the last. As a result, in the party Giri Anish: Karuana Fabiano the result showed that the latter is still a bit more experienced than a young Dutchman. The victory was in the hands of Fabiano.
The same difficult part for the youngthe man was the party Sergei Karjakin: Fabiano Caruana. Russian chess player Sergey Karyakin, a man entered in the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest grandmaster in the world, met with Fabiano in the Tournament of contenders. As several games have shown, the most likely outcome is the victory of one of these young people. Judging by the rating of the games played, both have 7 points, which means that these chess players will compete for the chance to take away the World Champion title from Karlsen in the finals. The 2016 contenders' tournament will determine the worthy and will probably become the brightest career page in the life of the winner.
Personal life
About personal relationships with someoneAmerican chess player constantly laughs off both at the camera and in the face of journalists. A real workaholic in his favorite affair, Caruana responds that chess is still ranked first in his life. Will it always so, can only show time. But while, not having a girl and having a terrific character, a sense of humor and natural charm, a young man is open to communication always and with everyone.
Awards, titles and achievements
In his career, Fabiano became a two-time championSpain, as well as the champion of many cities, like Zurich and Reykjavik. After winning the game in classical chess with the current world champion, Caruana automatically became a member of the Mikhail Chigorin's club in 2013.
Brilliantly speaking at the Grand Prix, a young chess playerDiscovered the path to the most grandiose tournament, the prize of which is the title of World Champion. In this tournament he will have to fight with many legends, and the winner will have the honor to fight with Magnus Carlsen, the current World Champion, at the Tournament of Applicants.
Current activities
Now Fabiano is actively involved in many competitions around the world. His abilities are also surprised, and the young chess player, meanwhile, is gaining experience and strength for the decisive tournament in 2016.
Perhaps, it is in the autumn of this year that his fate will be decided as one of the strongest chess players in history.
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