by Lakhdar Mazouz, FIDE Press Officer, photos by Torsten Behl, Official Photographer.FIDE.comAnand, in his usual slow and short paces, his eyes looking down, deep in thought appeared first in the playing hall. He seemed very calm, maybe thinking already that today he will play the last round of the match.Kramnik came minutes later, resolute and showing determination. He looked concerned. His task
NEW DELHI: World Champion Viswanathan Anand retained the world crown by taking another draw with challenger Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in the 11thAnand & KramnikChallenger Vladimir Kramnik of Russia l
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Per la prima volta durante questo Campionato del Mondo di scacchi Kramnik ha conseguito un piccolo vantaggio dall’apertura, ma neanche questa volta è riuscito a vincere ed a quattro gare dalla fine il match è virtualmente chiuso, ad Anand basteranno due pareggi per conservare il titolo di Campione del Mondo di Scacchi.
1. d4 Cf6 la [...]
Now that Anand is almost certainly winning the WCC match against Kramnik, it is possible that FIDE will take the final steps to arrange the match Kamsky-Topalov to take place in the originally planned time frame.
There have been rumors that in case of Kramnik's win in Bonn, Alexander Zhukov's...
Ieri sera alla Caffetteria Mazzini parlando con il MF Maurizio Brancaleoni ho esposto le mie perplessità sulla condotta di gara di Kramnik:
- E’ riuscito a perdere due partite con il bianco cercando di complicare il gioco ed in entrambe ritrovandosi a corto di tempo ha finito con il commettere errori tattici.
Il Branca mi ha fatto [...]
Dopo i fuochi di artificio visti nella terza partita qualcuno pensava che la partita odierna sarebbe stata noiosa, ma anche in una breve partita come questa si colgono spunti interessanti, nel gioco tecnico Kramnik se la cava meglio di Anand, ma sembra difficile scalfire la difesa dell’indiano che nel gioco tattico sembra più efficiente e [...]
Ronan Bennett and Daniel KingThe Guardian,Monday October 6 2008In just over a week's time, Viswanathan Anand, from India, and Vladimir Kramnik, from Russia, will do battle at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn for the title of world chess champion.Two players slugging it out over a series of games remains, for me, the greatest spectacle in chess and the only fit
14th October - 2nd November 2008….Who is going to be the winner?? The battle for the highest Chess Title!
On this link of Chessgames you can play through Kramnik and Anand’s games where they played one another. A new window will open when you click on the link! If you slide down to Anand, you will [...]
Interview with Vladimir Kramnik The following interview was conducted by Pavel Matocha after the rapid chess match between Vladimir Kramnik and Czech GM David Navara (Kramnik won 5.5:2.5). The interview was published in the Czech magazin "Weekly Euro". It has been translated into English and posted on the Kramnik web site (link below). We bring you highlights. Vladimir Kramnik on his P
The city of Prague (Czech: Praha) is located on the River Vltava in central Bohemia, and is considered to be one of the most beautiful cities in Europe.The main square of the old part of Prague, with the Town Hall Tower (which you can ascend) The Church of Our Lady before Tyn The inventory is decorated in a nice warm medieval style. Former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik His challen
Former World Champion Kramnik easily defeated Czech top GM Navara by the score of 5.5 - 2.5, in spite of the last round's loss.Kramnik, Vladimir - Navara, David 1-0Navara, David - Kramnik, Vladimir 0-1Kramnik, Vladimir - Navara, David 1-0Navara, David - Kramnik, Vladimir 1/2Kramnik, Vladimir - Navara, David 1/2Navara, David - Kramnik, Vladimir 0-1Kramnik, Vladimir - Navara, David 1/2Navara, David
This match is part of the CEZ Chess Trophy 2008 Vladimir Kramnik, former World Chess Champion (2000-2007) and 2nd rated player on FIDE ELO list as of April 2008, will play a match against the top Grandmaster of the Czech Republic, David Navara. The match of 8 games in rapid chess will be the main event of the festival CEZ Chess Trophy 2008 and will take place in in Prague on 14-18th of May 2008.
I've read somewhere (and lost the link since) that diagram from Topalov-Kramnik, Corus 2008 appeared on the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung front page. Supposedly FAZ is rarely using colors on the cover pages, but note the red squered e5.
Edit: source found, via Veni Markovski blog
Queen's Gambit Accepted1. d4 d5 2 c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 e6 4 .e3 c5 5. Bxc4 a6 6. 0-0 Nf6 7. a4 Nc6 8. Qe2 cxd4 9. Rd1 Be7 10. exd4 0-0 11. Nc3A very well known position arising from the Queen's Gambit Accepted. White's pieces are again on active "e" square, but black also has positional trumps. Earlier on white played a2-a4 to prevent Black expanding on the queenside with ... b7-b5. This has left black with an outpost on b4, which may be used by the Knight on c6.11. ... Nd5Black prevents Whites from playing an early d4-d5 by simply blocking the pawn. This is a theoretical position which has been assessed in various places as either equal or a slight advantage to Whites.11.... Nb4 also preventing d4-d5 is Black's main alternative here.12 Bb3Whites has many other moves, including 12. Qe4 and 12. Bd3 Ncb4 13. Bb1 in the latter variation white's rook on a1 looks entombed, but white can often activate it with the imaginative Ra3.12.... Re8 13. h4!?Cutting edge stuff! As you may
Anatoly Karpov gave short interview after the ceremony of signing contract with chess club "Sveti Nikolaj" in Valjevo.
Q: What is quality of chess today?
A: Europe is doing pretty well, after short turning-point. India and China have joined the world's top while Vietnam is showing huge progress,...
If this really happens, who will be on board one? Chess club "Sveti Nikolaj" from Valjevo in central Serbia is negotiating with Vladimir Kramnik to join the club in its chase after 2007 European Club Cup. Team captain Milan Bozic confirmed that Veselin Topalov and Anatoly Karpov are already their...
Alexander Roshal, the editor-in-chief of magazine "64", shared "the secret" that Vladimir Kramnik and his girlfriend Maria will get married in Paris on December 30th or 31st. The two have met when Kramnik played world chess championship against Peter Leko and Maria came to interview him. We wish...
In the sixth and final game of World Chess Challenge, chess computer Deep Fritz(Germany - white) held onto its lead against Vladimir Kramnik (Russia - black), and even notched up a second win against the World Champion. That means the world's leading chess computer is the ultimate winner of the Man vs. Machine duel. Four draws and two wins for Deep Fritz - that's the legacy of World Chess Challenge, which excited fans all over the world have been following closely since November 25.
After more than four-and-a-half hours and 47 moves, Vladimir Kramnik accepted the defeat against his opponent - an opponent whose computational abilities are almost unfathomable: Deep Fritz calculated eight to ten million positions a second during World Chess Challenge. The audience at the Federal Art Hall in Bonn responded to today's epic battle between human and artificial intelligence with applause. The World Chess Challenge Cup was then handed over to the Deep Fritz team in a presentation ceremon
Today's battle between World Champion Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) and chess computer Deep Fritz (Germany) in the Federal Art Hall, with five and a half hours and 54 moves the longest match of World Chess Challenge 2006 so far, ended with a draw. After four matches out of six, Deep Fritz thus continues to lead Kramnik by one point.
For the first time in the World Chess Challenge 2006 a game was opened with 1.e4. With Fritz playing white, Kramnik opted for the Russian defense. Just as in the third match, Fritz quickly took the initiative and began to exert enormous pressure on Kramnik. The Russian world champion, though, drew on his considerable defensive skills once more and successfully countered Fritz's moves, denying the computer any real leverage. In the endgame Deep Fritz pitted two rooks and a bishop against Kramnik's pair of rooks and a knight. Following the exchange of both rooks, Fritz's strong bishop and active king put him in a slightly superior position in the bishop-kn
Vladimir Kozin from "Komsomolskaja Pravda" conducted an interview with Anatoly Karpov. Most of the questions were about incoming Kramnik vs Deep Fritz match. Here are some excerpts:
Q: The chess player is doomed?
A: To give the human any chance, it is necessary to provide even conditions. The...
World Champion Vladimir Kramnik is back for another clash against chess computer. This time he will face Deep Fritz in a 6 games match. The match will be played on November 25th-December 5th in Bonne, Germany.
In order to "warm up" its membership for the live broadcast, WorldChessNetwork organizes...
ELISTA (Russia): Russian grandmaster Viktor Kramnik overpowered Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria in a series of timed tie-break matches to win the World Chess Championship on Friday in a tournament billed as the reunification of long-divided international chess competition.Topalov resigned in the fourth 25-minute tie-break match after Kramnik, playing white, checked the black king on the 45th move of the match with a well-protected rook, leaving both black rooks open to attack.Playoff game 1: Playoff game 2:Playoff game 3Playoff game 4
"Yes, some people applauded after the game… I heard applause in Dortmund, after I defeated Leko in the last game, and won the tournament. The crowd boos more often after my games, but sometimes they applaud, too (smiles).
The best reaction I ever heard was in Belgrade
- there were more than a...
Kramnik,Vladimir (2753) – Topalov,Veselin (2778)
Sofia MTel Masters Sofia (10), 22.05.2005
Commentary by IM Miodrag Perunovic
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.f3 b5 8.Qd2 b4
b4 move became really fashionable lately. The idea of the black side is not just to move the...
Bulgaria's chess king Vesselin Topalov may be disqualified by FIDE for three years for violating the Code of Ethics by linking Vladimir Kramnik to the KGB in an interview for Spanish newspaper ABC. People from outside who were Russians and were far from the world of chess helped Kramnik, Topalov said in the interview. These were either amateurs or people from the secret services, he added. They were the ones who placed the Internet cable in Kramnik's toilet, he said.Topalov also said that he was afraid for his life while in Elista and that he would never go to Russia again. Nobody from Kramnik's team was involved in that, that's why they deny the whole thing, he said. Topalov suspected FIDE's president Kirsan Ilymzhinov was also involved in the plot because he was a businessman who was obeying orders because there had to be a Russian champion. For these words of Topalov Kramnik's manager Carsten Hensel lodged a claim with FIDE against the Bulgarian chess master. Hensel said he ha
After four hours and 44 moves of play, today's third match in World Chess Challenge 2006 between World Champion Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) and the world's leading chess computer program, Deep Fritz, (Germany) ended in a draw. For the first time in this competition, Deep Fritz (black) took the initiative and exerted enormous pressure on Kramnik. The Catalan opening put the computer in a superior position - Vladimir Kramnik had to mount a very precise defense in order to maintain his own position.Deep Fritz was not interested in capturing material. Instead, it sacrificed a pawn in its 16th move in order to obtain a development advantage. However, the Russian World Champion successfully neutralized the machine's advantage. By making an exchange sacrifice in the 38th move, Kramnik managed to build an impenetrable King's fortress and finished the game with a draw.Following his defeat in the second match, Kramnik took far more time to plan his initial moves than in the first two games. Kr
Thanks to an unbelievable error made by the World Champion in the 34th move, today's second match in World Chess Challenge 2006 came to an abrupt conclusion. Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) wasted a brilliant game and an extraordinary position by completely overlooking a one-move checkmate against chess computer Deep Fritz (Germany). Deep Fritz checkmated the World Champion by moving its queen to h7. After playing two of the six matches, the computer has taken the lead with 1.5 to 0.5 points.Like Kramnik, Deep Fritz opened its first white game by playing d4. Once the Queen's Gambit had been accepted, the adversaries began a strategically complex game. The Russian World Champion controlled the strategic position beautifully, developing advantages through precise playing. He even avoided a repetition of position that would have resulted in a draw. Kramnik was not under time pressure - he still had 33 minutes on the time control clock for the last five moves. But then, something unbelievable
The World Chess Championship match has started on September 23rd. WorldChessNetwork is providing live audio broadcast for this event. GM Larry Christiansen, IM Irina Krush, GM Alex Finkel and GM Victor Mikhalevski are planned as commentators.
Final result: Vladimir Kramnik - Veselin Topalov...
I'm going to make a prediction based on my earlier assessment of Vlad for Dortmund. Vladimir Kramnik will beat Peter Leko this round.
There are several justifications for this assessment not the least of which is Leko's ability to create negative complications (negative to himself) against Kramnik. Obviously there is a rivalry but Leko should keep some of that fighting spirit in reserve. Kramnik
Vladimir Kramnik has an interview (done by Pavel Matocha) featured on Chessbase. It is chessbases attempt at giving Kramnik 'equal time' I suppose.
In that interview Kramnik says of Anand and the upcoming match ...
Is Vishy Anand World Champion?
It is not a question of simply yes or no. Anand won the tournament, which was called the World Championship Tournament, and I competed in that tou
In Susan Polgar's article (found HERE) she talks about Anand playing at Bilbao and gives some pretty neat quotes. Susan doesn't explicitly point it out but what we have are two very different methods of perparation for the Kramnik-Anand World Championship match.
Anand loves to play. That's a given factor in the situation. He obviously believes that playing at Bilbao will keep him sharp and help h
According to Chessbase Vladimir Kramnik now has a new sponsor for his match against Vishy Anand later this year.EUROCEMENT group is a multinational vertically integrated industrial holding, producer of construction materials. Production facilities of the Group's businesses are 35 mln tons of cement, 10m³ of concrete and 3,5 mln tons of fillers per year. Meanwhile EUROCEMENT group is the world’s
Vladimir Kramnik's 'camp' has announced his team of seconds for the upcoming World Championship match against Vishy Anand.
As Dennis Monokroussos put it ... let's have a chessdrum roll ...
GM Sergey Rublevsky, GM Laurent Fressinet, and GM Peter Leko
Well, unfortunately Anand finally managed to lose a game in his match against Kramnik for the Championship. Kramnik needed the win or he went home and now he has to win the next two games in a row or the situation is the same.
After a loss Anand usually has difficulty coping with the environment. I don't think that will be the case here as he is sitting very pretty on his major two point lead. He
Well Kramnik hasn't been feeling up to his old antics apparently. I thought perhaps we'd see a major comeback in the form of a complicated game but instead we find a huge blunder leading to another momentous loss and now Kramnik has two losses to recover from.
The big question on everyones mind is - "Can Kramnik recover?"
Kramnik has at times proved himself to be as sensitive a player as Anand.
