Monday, October 18, 2004
Kramnik hangs on to the World Championship title
Kramnik retained his World Championship title by drawing the match 7-7 with Leko. He was trailing Leko by one point at the end of 13th game. He had to win the last game lest lose the title to Leko. Kramnik rose to the occasion and outplayed Leko soundly. An impressive display, in deed. Before Kramnik, only Lasker, Botvinnik and Kasparov have done this feat of beating the challenger in the last round to retain the title.
Leko chose to go for a Caro Kann 5)...Bd7 variation. Click here for some games on Caro Kann. Kramnik got a space advantage and pushed Leko in to passive defense, before blowing him off the board. This game will surely go down in the Chess history/tutor books as an example of how to play on both sides of the board. Kramnik's 21) b4 is really instructive. After this, Kramnik got a chance to create a Knight outpost in d6. Kasparov once said that if only White could get a Knight outpost in the enemy territory and a rook in the 7th rank, Black could safely resign. Kramnik - Leko (14th game) is an example for that.
Leko chose to go for a Caro Kann 5)...Bd7 variation. Click here for some games on Caro Kann. Kramnik got a space advantage and pushed Leko in to passive defense, before blowing him off the board. This game will surely go down in the Chess history/tutor books as an example of how to play on both sides of the board. Kramnik's 21) b4 is really instructive. After this, Kramnik got a chance to create a Knight outpost in d6. Kasparov once said that if only White could get a Knight outpost in the enemy territory and a rook in the 7th rank, Black could safely resign. Kramnik - Leko (14th game) is an example for that.
Now, the unified match is fast becoming a distant-dream. If Kasparov beats Kasim in their upcoming match, I am not sure whether Kramnik will agree to play Kasparov for the title. In fact, he doesn't have to. There is no binding agreement that the winner of this Dannemann World Championship has to play the winner of Kasparov-Kasim. So, having an unified champion may not happen at all. Anyway, what is a Unified championship with out involving World #2 player, Anand?Kramnik,V (2770) - Leko,P (2741) [B12]
WCh Brissago SUI (14), 18.10.2004
1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.h4 h6 5.g4 Bd7 6.Nd2 c5 7.dxc5 e6 8.Nb3 Bxc5
9.Nxc5 Qa5+ 10.c3 Qxc5 11.Nf3 Ne7 12.Bd3 Nbc6 13.Be3 Qa5 14.Qd2 Ng6 15.Bd4 Nxd4 16.cxd4 Qxd2+ 17.Kxd2 Nf4 18.Rac1 h5 19.Rhg1 Bc6 20.gxh5 Nxh5 21.b4 a6 22.a4 Kd8 23.Ng5 Be8 24.b5 Nf4 25.b6 Nxd3 26.Kxd3 Rc8 27.Rxc8+ Kxc8 28.Rc1+ Bc6 29.Nxf7 Rxh4 30.Nd6+ Kd8 31.Rg1 Rh3+ 32.Ke2 Ra3 33.Rxg7 Rxa4 34.f4 Ra2+ 35.Kf3 Ra3+ 36.Kg4 Rd3 37.f5 Rxd4+ 38.Kg5 exf5 39.Kf6 Rg4 40.Rc7 Rh4 41.Nf7+ {Leko resigned} 1-0
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Could you please talk about the olympiad too. India seems to be doing well. Thanks.
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: October 19, 2004 at 1:33 PM
: October 19, 2004 at 1:33 PM
U beat me to it :) I am actually preparing something on the Olympiad, now that the main Wch is over !
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