Friday
Jul152016
One To Watch: Ilya Makoveev
Friday, July 15, 2016 at 10:46PM
This young Russian player is a terror at the board (and kind of acts like one too, unfortunately - but give him time): Ilya Makoveev is barely 10 years old, rated over 2200 FIDE, and is clearly underrated. Yikes.
Ben Finegold has a video showing some of his early highlights, and if you want to watch Makoveev in action, here's a playlist including some games he played last year in the Moscow Blitz, and here's a video showing him in action this February - you can link-hop from there and find all his games from that event. It's too early to know just how good he'll be, but the early returns look promising.
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