World press about Illya Nyzhnyk

"I think he's getting Danailovesque signals from that teddy bear..."

"His rating on the April 2007 list is 157 points higher than that of anyone else born in 1996 and is also higher than that of anyone born in 1995."

"Two losses in the last three rounds - Nyzhnyk might be tired; he has played a lot of chess recently for such a young kid."


WikipediA
"Illya Nyzhnyk is a Ukrainian chess player. He was born in 1996 and gained world-wide attention..."

CHESSBASE NEWS
07.02.2007
"Now comes the interesting part: Group B (and please note: not the children's section) was won by Illya Nyzhnyk, who scored 8.5/9 points with a 2633 performance. The point is that this Ukrainian player, nominally rated 2217, is just ten years old! We are going to have to watch the boy carefully, and even learn to pronounce his name."

The Guardian
Saturday February 10, 2007, Leonard Barden
"The Ukrainian is 10, yes 10, years old, the youngest winner of an adult international tournament, with a stunning 8.5/9 score and a 2633-rating performance. It is a result to outshine the great prodigies of the past."

The New York Times
February 18, 2007, DYLAN LOEB McCLAIN
"...he did something recently that has the chess world buzzing."
"...it is not clear if Nyzhnyk’s result was a flash in the pan or a harbinger of things to come. Time will tell."

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