# 13 year old beats Karpov in chess match! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 21, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-year-old-beats-karpov-in-chess-match/235527 "2004-03-21T06:44:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-year-old-beats-karpov-in-chess-match/235527/1 "2004-03-21T06:44:06Z")
[New Grandmaster on the horizon?](http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=755806) ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-year-old-beats-karpov-in-chess-match/235527/2 "2004-03-21T08:11:50Z")
I’m really more excited about a story farther down on the page: _“Norway world leader in casual sex.”_ ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-year-old-beats-karpov-in-chess-match/235527/3 "2004-03-21T08:25:04Z")
Apart from casual sex it had this classic: > [@](#): > > **Rats close Public Health canteen** > > The Norwegian Institute of Public Health shut down its canteen after rats were discovered in the organization’s main building. An unpleasant and somewhat embarrassing find for the institution in charge of fighting, among other things, contagion in Norway. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-year-old-beats-karpov-in-chess-match/235527/4 "2004-03-21T11:05:43Z")
It was only speed chess, and Karpov is older and slower now. Still, quite a big deal. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-year-old-beats-karpov-in-chess-match/235527/5 "2004-03-21T19:03:53Z")
Another story further down the page: “Virtual Newspaper tries print”; sadly, no “customers complain about inky monitors” ---
**Author:** ![capacitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e47774/32.png) [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-year-old-beats-karpov-in-chess-match/235527/6 "2004-03-21T20:09:33Z")
Why does that kid still have to wait for his GM title? Give it to him now! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-year-old-beats-karpov-in-chess-match/235527/7 "2004-03-22T02:05:07Z")
Ah yes, but can the kid beat **NotQuiteKarpov**? ---
**Author:** ![Scarf-Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Scarf-Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarf-Ace)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2004, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-year-old-beats-karpov-in-chess-match/235527/8 "2004-03-22T12:46:38Z")
Maybe hes a cyborg, or genetically modified, or both. ---
**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-year-old-beats-karpov-in-chess-match/235527/9 "2004-03-23T07:42:10Z")
> [@Libertarian](#): > > It was only speed chess, and Karpov is older and slower now. Still, quite a big deal. “speed chess” – Ha. Is that anything like PCP Chess, or Acid Chess? Sounds like fun. 😃 Disclaimer: Drugs are bad. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-year-old-beats-karpov-in-chess-match/235527/10 "2004-03-23T15:51:02Z")
The kid beat Karpov playing “lightning chess,” in which each player has a total of 5 minutes to play the entire game. Later in the same tournament, Karpov beat the same kid in two “rapid chess” rounds, in which each player has a total of 30 minutes to play. ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-year-old-beats-karpov-in-chess-match/235527/11 "2004-03-29T14:25:41Z")
I think the fact I stumble across this thread the following week strongly suggests that speed \*anything \* is not my strong point! 😃 Apart from, maybe, speed orgasm ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-year-old-beats-karpov-in-chess-match/235527/12 "2004-03-29T14:46:37Z")
that carlsen is good. there was a game of his in the NYT chess column a couple weeks ago where he mangled a grandmaster. A very nice tactical win for him. karpov is not what he used to be either but that kid could really be something. ---
**Author:** ![notquitekarpov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@notquitekarpov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notquitekarpov)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/13-year-old-beats-karpov-in-chess-match/235527/13 "2004-03-29T15:49:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Carlsen is trained by Norway’s Simen Agdestein, a national celebrity who was both a young chess grandmaster and a member of Norway’s international soccer team _from the OP cite…_ WTF!!! We are talking a football player here being a chess grandmaster?!? This - from a sport where in England if you have a grade 5 CSE in metalwork you are known as the professor in the dressing room… I knew the rest of Europe had an intellectual approach to the game but this takes the biscuit!