Behind doubt the most talented Bergen player after Fyllingen, six years younger Daniel Hersvik has not been able to show his true capacity during a whole international tournament yet. If this should be the first one, we are clearly talking about a candidate for the IM-norm.
What he must avoid to achieve this, is his own habit of first destroying his opponent and then himself. He is in several meanings a paradoxial player : A tactical genius which suddenly can blunder a rook or queen, willing to take every risk to win every game except for those in which he offers a draw in the opening, sometimes threwing out 25 moves theory and sometimes leaving all theory well before 10. It is impossible to dispute against that Hersvik is a very entertaining participant; the question here is whenever he will be able to stabilize his play, and if so, on which level.
