Chess: How does Black win?

Friday's chess...

THE title "World Junior Champion" was the brainchild of legendary English organiser William Ritson-Morry. His big idea was to use it as a means of showcasing future generations of chess stars - and 60 years ago in his hometown of Birmingham, Ritson-Morry presided over the inaugural event, won by Borislav Ivkov of Yugoslavia.

This was FIDE's only competition for emerging young masters. It caught everyone's imagination, and rapidly grew. Along the way it proved a successful launchpad for Boris Spassky, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, and Vishwanathan Anand, who all first became World Junior Champions before being crowned World Champions.

Yet the title has lost a little of its lustre of late by not being the demanding and revered tournament it once used to be. Top prodigies of the past 15 years or so, such as Peter Leko, Ruslan Ponomariov, Sergei Karjakin, and Magnus Carlsen have all given it a miss by heading straight for the rough and tumble of the elite super-tournament circuit.

Recently in Chennai, India, the 50th World Junior Championship was opened by the 1987 winner, and now current World Champion Anand. It proved one of the more dramatic world juniors of recent years, as Dariusz Swiercz of Poland came from behind with a late surge to snatch the crown on tiebreak ahead of front-runner Robert Hovhannisyan of Armenia, as both scored 10.5/13

A Rombaldoni - D Swiercz

50th World Junior Ch., (9)

Sicilian Defence, Moscow variation

1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 d6 3 Bb5+ Nd7 4 d4 cxd4 5 Qxd4 a6 6 Bxd7+ Bxd7 7 Nc3 e5 8 Qd3 h6 9 a4 Nf6 10 0–0 Rc8 11 Nd2 Be6 12 Nd5 Bxd5 13 exd5 Qc7 14 c4 Be7 15 b3 0–0 16 Bb2 b5 17 cxb5 axb5 18 axb5 Qb7 19 Nc4 Qxb5 20 Ra5 Qb7 21 Ba3 Rfd8 22 Rd1 Ra8 23 b4 Rdb8 24 h3 Bf8 25 Rxa8 Qxa8 26 Na5 Rb6 27 Qc4 Qe8! 28 Qd3 Qa4 29 Nc4 Ra6 30 f3 h5 31 Na5 Rb6 32 Nc4 Rb5 33 Ne3 g6 34 Rc1 Bh6 35 Rc8+ Kg7 36 Bc1 Bf4 37 Ra8 Qxb4 38 Bd2 Qb1+ 39 Qxb1 Rxb1+ 40 Kf2 Rb2 0–1