1992 (5th) Oakham Young Masters International, 24 March - 1 April 1992

1992 Oakham Young Masters		Fed	Elo	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Total
1	Alexei Shirov	LAT	2655g	♦ 1/21	◊ 1/39	♦ 1/8	◊ 1/15	♦ 1/5	◊ 0/2	♦ 1/17	◊ 1/4	♦ ½/3	7½
2	Vladimir Kramnik	USSR	2590f	◊ 1/10	♦ ½/23	◊ ½/22	♦ 1/27	◊ 1/46	♦ 1/1	◊ ½/4	♦ ½/3	♦ ½/6	6½
3	Viktor Bologan	USSR	2585g	♦ 1/29	◊ 1/26	♦ 0/15	◊ 1/33	♦ 1/11	◊ ½/17	♦ 1/5	◊ ½/2	◊ ½/1	6½
4	Vladimir Akopian	USSR	2605g	♦ ½/7	◊ ½/18	♦ 1/42	◊ 1/24	♦ 1/15	◊ 1/9	♦ ½/2	♦ 0/1	◊ 1/16	6½
5	Sergei Tiviakov	USSR	2575g	♦ 1/42	◊ 1/25	♦ 1/16	◊ ½/19	◊ 0/1	♦ 1/12	◊ 0/3	♦ 1/17	◊ 1/9	6½
6	Jacek Gdanski	POL	2435m	♦ ½/44	◊ ½/34	♦ ½/18	◊ 1/7	♦ 1/25	◊ 1/16	♦ ½/9	♦ 1/15	◊ ½/2	6½
7	Alexander Volzhin	USSR	2370	◊ ½/4	♦ 0/9	◊ 1/37	♦ 0/6	◊ 1/47	♦ 1/23	♦ 1/24	◊ ½/8	◊ 1/19	6
8	Sergei Rublevsky	USSR	2505	◊ 1/30	♦ 1/46	◊ 0/1	♦ 1/23	◊ 0/17	♦ ½/19	◊ 1/22	♦ ½/7	◊ 1/15	6
9	Jean Marc Degraeve	FRA	2470m	♦ ½/18	◊ 1/7	♦ ½/24	◊ 1/10	♦ 1/19	♦ 0/4	◊ ½/6	◊ 1/25	♦ 0/5	5½
10	Jesper Hall	SWE	2370	♦ 0/2	◊ 1/14	♦ 1/20	♦ 0/9	◊ 1/28	◊ ½/24	♦ ½/16	◊ 1/18	♦ ½/12	5½
11	Karsten Mueller	GER	2460m	◊ 1/47	♦ ½/22	◊ ½/27	♦ 1/13	◊ 0/3	♦ 1/33	◊ 0/15	♦ ½/14	◊ 1/28	5½
12	Mikhail Ulibin	USSR	2585g	◊ 0/22	♦ 1/47	◊ ½/17	♦ 1/28	◊ 1/38	◊ 0/5	♦ 1/41	♦ ½/19	◊ ½/10	5½
13	Jayant Suresh Gokhale	IND	2325	◊ 0/15	♦ 1/50	♦ 1/26	◊ 0/11	♦ 0/24	◊ ½/18	◊ 1/40	♦ 1/41	♦ 1/25	5½
14	Matthew J Turner	ENG	2250	◊ 0/23	♦ 0/10	◊ 1/48	◊ 1/36	♦ ½/41	♦ ½/31	◊ 1/46	◊ ½/11	♦ 1/26	5½
15	Aleksej Aleksandrov	USSR	2460	♦ 1/13	◊ 1/41	◊ 1/3	♦ 0/1	◊ 0/4	♦ 1/46	♦ 1/11	◊ 0/6	♦ 0/8	5
16	Michael Adams	ENG	2620g	◊ ½/33	♦ 1/28	◊ 0/5	♦ 1/30	◊ 1/23	♦ 0/6	◊ ½/10	◊ 1/26	♦ 0/4	5
17	Arnaud Hauchard	FRA	2420m	♦ ½/34	◊ 1/52	♦ ½/12	◊ 1/22	♦ 1/8	♦ ½/3	◊ 0/1	◊ 0/5	♦ ½/21	5
18	Adam Collinson	ENG	2335f	◊ ½/9	♦ ½/4	◊ ½/6	♦ ½/40	◊ ½/27	♦ ½/13	◊ 1/31	♦ 0/10	◊ 1/33	5
19	Michael T Hennigan	ENG	2375f	◊ 1/51	♦ ½/35	♦ 1/40	♦ ½/5	◊ 0/9	◊ ½/8	♦ 1/20	◊ ½/12	♦ 0/7	5
20	Peter Svidler	USSR	2465m	◊ ½/28	♦ ½/33	◊ 0/10	♦ ½/34	◊ 1/30	♦ 1/29	◊ 0/19	♦ ½/22	◊ 1/35	5
21	Dharshan Kumaran	ENG	2375f	◊ 0/1	♦ ½/37	◊ 1/45	♦ 0/43	◊ ½/34	◊ 1/36	♦ 1/38	♦ ½/23	◊ ½/17	5
22	Ronen Har Zvi	ISR	2350	♦ 1/12	◊ ½/11	♦ ½/2	♦ 0/17	◊ 1/40	◊ ½/26	♦ 0/8	◊ ½/20	♦ ½/24	4½
23	Rune Djurhuus	NOR	2420m	♦ 1/14	◊ ½/2	♦ 1/38	◊ 0/8	♦ 0/16	◊ 0/7	♦ 1/43	◊ ½/21	♦ ½/29	4½
24	Dimitri Reinderman	NED	2420f	◊ ½/43	♦ 1/51	◊ ½/9	♦ 0/4	◊ 1/13	♦ ½/10	◊ 0/7	◊ ½/35	◊ ½/22	4½
25	Tomas Polak	CSR	2410m	◊ 1/48	♦ 0/5	◊ ½/35	♦ 1/44	◊ 0/6	♦ 1/43	◊ 1/27	♦ 0/9	◊ 0/13	4½
26	Alisa Galliamova	USSR	2410wg	◊ 1/49	♦ 0/3	◊ 0/13	♦ 1/50	◊ 1/43	♦ ½/22	◊ 1/35	♦ 0/16	◊ 0/14	4½
27	Mariusz Bus	POL	2390m	♦ ½/52	◊ 1/44	♦ ½/11	◊ 0/2	♦ ½/18	◊ ½/38	♦ 0/25	◊ ½/32	♦ 1/39	4½
28	Gurunath B Prakash	IND	2335	♦ ½/20	◊ 0/16	♦ 1/52	◊ 0/12	♦ 0/10	◊ 1/49	♦ 1/36	◊ 1/39	♦ 0/11	4½
29	Artur Kogan	ISR	2370f	◊ 0/3	♦ 1/48	◊ ½/31	♦ 0/38	◊ 1/37	◊ 0/20	♦ ½/32	♦ 1/46	◊ ½/23	4½
30	Pontus Sjodahl	SWE	2345	♦ 0/8	◊ 1/32	♦ ½/39	◊ 0/16	♦ 0/20	◊ ½/37	♦ 1/50	◊ 1/42	◊ ½/31	4½
31	Jean Luc Chabanon	FRA	2410m	♦ 0/38	◊ ½/45	♦ ½/29	◊ 1/49	♦ ½/42	◊ ½/14	♦ 0/18	◊ 1/34	♦ ½/30	4½
32	Chong Ghee Ong	SIN	2205	◊ 0/46	♦ 0/30	◊ 0/50	♦ ½/51	♦ 1/48	◊ 1/44	◊ ½/29	♦ ½/27	◊ 1/40	4½
33	Alexandre Lesiege	CAN	2375f	♦ ½/16	◊ ½/20	♦ 1/36	♦ 0/3	◊ ½/35	◊ 0/11	♦ ½/34	◊ 1/38	♦ 0/18	4
34	Raffi Topakian	AUT	2255	◊ ½/17	♦ ½/6	◊ 0/46	◊ ½/20	♦ ½/21	♦ ½/40	◊ ½/33	♦ 0/31	◊ 1/47	4
35	Demis Hassabis	ENG	2290	♦ ½/36	◊ ½/19	♦ ½/25	◊ ½/41	♦ ½/33	◊ 1/39	♦ 0/26	♦ ½/24	♦ 0/20	4
36	George Gabriel Grigore	ROU	2430m	◊ ½/35	♦ ½/43	◊ 0/33	♦ 0/14	◊ 1/50	♦ 0/21	◊ 0/28	♦ 1/51	◊ 1/41	4
37	Eloi Relange	FRA	2275	♦ 0/39	◊ ½/21	♦ 0/7	◊ 1/52	♦ 0/29	♦ ½/30	◊ ½/51	♦ ½/47	◊ 1/46	4
38	Nino Khurtsidze	USSR	2220wf	◊ 1/31	♦ ½/40	◊ 0/23	◊ 1/29	♦ 0/12	♦ ½/27	◊ 0/21	♦ 0/33	♦ ½/44	3½
39	Peter Heine Nielsen	DEN	2420m	◊ 1/37	♦ 0/1	◊ ½/30	♦ 0/46	◊ 1/44	♦ 0/35	◊ 1/42	♦ 0/28	◊ 0/27	3½
40	Milos Jirovsky	CSR	2425m	♦ 1/45	◊ ½/38	◊ 0/19	◊ ½/18	♦ 0/22	◊ ½/34	♦ 0/13	◊ 1/43	♦ 0/32	3½
41	Martin Borriss	GER	2395m	◊ 1/50	♦ 0/15	◊ ½/43	♦ ½/35	◊ ½/14	♦ 1/42	◊ 0/12	◊ 0/13	♦ 0/36	3½
42	Andrew A Webster	ENG	2350f	◊ 0/5	♦ 1/49	◊ 0/4	♦ 1/45	◊ ½/31	◊ 0/41	♦ 0/39	♦ 0/30	◊ 1/48	3½
43	Li Yang Hsu	SIN	2290f	♦ ½/24	◊ ½/36	♦ ½/41	◊ 1/21	♦ 0/26	◊ 0/25	◊ 0/23	♦ 0/40	◊ 1/49	3½
44	Ron Livshits	CAN	2310	◊ ½/6	♦ 0/27	◊ 1/47	◊ 0/25	♦ 0/39	♦ 0/32	◊ ½/48	♦ 1/45	◊ ½/38	3½
45	Joshua Waitzkin	USA	2290	◊ 0/40	♦ ½/31	♦ 0/21	◊ 0/42	♦ ½/49	◊ ½/47	♦ 1/52	◊ 0/44	◊ 1/51	3½
46	Konstantinos Moutousis	GRE	2405m	♦ 1/32	◊ 0/8	♦ 1/34	◊ 1/39	♦ 0/2	◊ 0/15	♦ 0/14	◊ 0/29	♦ 0/37	3
47	Stephen J Cullip	ENG	2320f	♦ 0/11	◊ 0/12	♦ 0/44	◊ 1/48	♦ 0/7	♦ ½/45	◊ 1/49	◊ ½/37	♦ 0/34	3
48	Kim Le Quang	BEL	2250	♦ 0/25	◊ 0/29	♦ 0/14	♦ 0/47	◊ 0/32	◊ 1/52	♦ ½/44	◊ 1/50	♦ 0/42	2½
49	Denes Martinidesz	SUI	2215	♦ 0/26	◊ 0/42	◊ 1/51	♦ 0/31	◊ ½/45	♦ 0/28	♦ 0/47	◊ 1/52	♦ 0/43	2½
50	Graeme N Buckley	ENG	2205	♦ 0/41	◊ 0/13	♦ 1/32	◊ 0/26	♦ 0/36	♦ 1/51	◊ 0/30	♦ 0/48	◊ 0/52	2
51	Matthew S Piper	ENG	2275	♦ 0/19	◊ 0/24	♦ 0/49	◊ ½/32	♦ 1/52	◊ 0/50	♦ ½/37	◊ 0/36	♦ 0/45	2
52	Roger Beckett	IRL	(2205)	◊ ½/27	♦ 0/17	◊ 0/28	♦ 0/37	◊ 0/51	♦ 0/48	◊ 0/45	♦ 0/49	♦ 1/50	1½

Norms achieved: GM - Kramnik; IM - Turner, Alexandrov, Hennigan (his 4th), Hall, Volzhin, Gokhale, Har Zvi; IWM - Khurtsidze.

January 1992 FIDE Rating List

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1993 British Chess Federation Yearbook, ppn 70-71

5th OAKHAM 'YOUNG MASTERS' INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENT

Oakham School, Rutland, 24th March - 1st April 1992

Widely acclaimed as the strongest junior tournament of all time, the Oakham Young Masters, for players aged 21 and under, was decisively won by the number one seed Aleksej Shirov from Riga.

Although unconvincing in some of the early rounds, the Latvian emerged as the sole leader on 5/5 with wins against Kumaran, Nielsen, Rublevsky, Alexandrov and Tiviakov. His only loss came in round 6 when 16-year-old Kramnik, the world's highest-rated untitled¹ player, won with black. [¹ in fact, he was an FM]

With three rounds to play, Shirov, Kramnik and World Junior Champion Akopian shared the lead, just ahead of Hauchard, Tiviakov, Bologan and Gdanski. Wins against Hauchard and, in a tense endgame, against Akopian, meant a brief draw with friend Bologan in the last round was sufficient to win him the tournament.

The 52 players came for 27 countries. Apart from Shirov and Adams (both in the world top 20), they included the three medal winners from the last World Junior Championship (Akopian, Ulibin, Tiviakov), the World Under-18 Champion (Kramnik), the World Under-16 Champion (Kumaran), the World Under-16 Girls' Champion (Khurtsidze), the European Junior Champion (Djurhuus) and a former World Girls' Champion (Galliamova).

What of the English players? With several unable to play (including Sadler, Ansell, Parker, Bibby), only the two Michaels (Adams and Hennigan) were in the top half of the draw. Adams lost an early game and never came into contention. Hennigan, seeking the rating points to take him to 2400 and his IM title, stayed on the high boards and had wins against Jirovsky and Svidler and draws with Tiviakov and Rublevsky. A last round loss will probably keep him tantalisingly short of his target.

Adam Collinson and Demis Hassapis were the 'draw kings'. Demis drew his first six and Adam his first seven games, before both had a win and loss sequence. Despite their relatively low ratings, five English players were well up in the final placings. Michael Adams (not low-rated), Michael Hennigan, Dharshan Kumaran and Adam Collinson were in the group 15th = with 5/9.

With a stunning finish, the highest Englishman was 16-year-old Matthew Turner from Bottesford, Lincolnshire. Matthew recovered from 0/2 to go to 4½/8. In round 9, he needed to win with black against WGM Alisa Galliamova to record his first IM norm. He did just that! Other norms were achieved by Kramnik (GM); Alexandrov, Hennigan (his 4th), Hall, Volzhin, Gokhale, Har-zvi (all IM); and Khurtsidze (IWM).

Richard Furness

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File Updated

Date	Notes
21 January 2025	First upload - 233 games and 1 stub (Volzhin ½-½ Rublevsky, rd 8). Various errors identified in the Mega Database file corrected and games fully dated, plus a full crosstable.