La genialidad de Erdogmus a los 14 años, por Leontxo García | El rincón de los inmortales 567

Only someone truly exceptional, destined for the pinnacle of chess, can play with such depth and sophistication in their teens. It's a fact that the growing abundance of chess prodigies—now more than ever, even though they've always existed, just as in music and mathematics—is due to the astonishing speed with which they progress in the 21st century thanks to intensive training with very powerful computers. This helps explain why Yadiz Erdogmus, who was only 14 when he created the masterpiece in this video, is the youngest player in history to surpass the 2700 Elo rating mark; that is, to become a member of the world elite. However, Erdogmus is exceptional among the exceptional. Even more so—for now, and allowing for the age difference—than the Argentinian Faustino Oro, now 12, already featured in this collection (when he was 10). The astonishing depth, sophistication, and calculating ability of the Turkish prodigy in the game we are publishing today is virtually unparalleled in history, if we're only talking about teenagers; perhaps Bobby Fischer's victory over Donald Byrne at age 13 is comparable in how stunned the spectator is. That's how high one has to reach to classify Erdogmus among the precocious geniuses. Subscribe to Leontxo García's channel so you don't miss any of the best historical chess games: https://www.youtube.com/c/AjedrezenEL... Visit our website: https://elpais.com/ajedrez/ The complete 'Corner of the Immortals' series:    • El RINCÓN de los INMORTALES   #chess #leontxogarcia