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    Friday
    Sep022011

    Super-Elite Botvinnik Memorial Rapid Event Starts Friday

    Which is today for most of us. It's a double round-robin rapid event in Moscow Friday and Saturday featuring just four players, but when the quartet comprises Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian and Vladimir Kramnik, it's enough! An interesting feature is that the players will sometimes come out when it isn't their move and offer commentary to the audience on the game they're playing.

    Official event site here.

    Wednesday
    Aug242011

    Kramnik Retiring?!

    It's far from the main point of this article, which focuses on next year's world championship match between titleholder Viswanathan Anand and his challenger, Boris Gelfand, but the following is far more newsworthy than anything about the match:

    [Former world champion Vladimir] Kramnik also announced several days ago that he is planning to hang up the gloves, that is, put away the chessboard, but Anand is still playing and winning!

    Say what? None of the standard news sites seem to have mentioned this, but thanks be to search engines, which reveal that his retirement is not imminent. Rather, the story is that the 36-year-old Kramnik, like Gata Kamsky (who is one year older than Kramnik), intends to retire at age 40. (Too bad, but it's nice that at least some chess players can afford to retire, based on their successes over the board. Before Bobby Fischer, this was impossible.)

    (Indirect HT to Brian Karen for the first article.)

    Wednesday
    Aug032011

    Video: Kramnik on Dortmund

    Originally here.

    Thursday
    Jul282011

    Dortmund 2011, Round 7: Kramnik Wins Again

    Is it the water there or something? Vladimir Kramnik would probably be the highest-rated player in the history of the world, by a long way, if one tallied all and only his Dortmund performances over the years. With his win today over Georg Meier, he has nearly assured himself of his 10th victory there, with a two point lead with three rounds to go. His 6/7 score is good for a performance rating of 3029 and has him back to 2800 on the dot on the Live Rating list.

    While his performance overall has been impressive and the result of vigorous play, here the win was more technical, taking advantage of two odd Meier moves. First, there was 24...Nb8?!, inviting White's knights to create weaknesses in Black's queenside; and then there was the positional blunder 31...Na7?, which must have been a blackout on Meier's part, as 32.d5 is a natural move I'd expect him to find with White in a blitz game. After that it was one-way traffic, and Kramnik collected the point in the second time control.

    Le Quang Liem is also having a good tournament, and it could have been even better. He obtained an advantage with Black against Hikaru Nakamura, thanks in part to the incredible move 22...g5!! Soon his pieces dominated the board, but 30...Rxe3(?) allowed Nakamura a neat tactical escape; 30...Nd5 would have kept a serious (but not yet decisive) edge. Nakamura drew, but for the moment he lost more ground on the Live list, falling behind American rival Gata Kamsky for the first time in years.

    Finally, Anish Giri moved back to 50% and clear third overall with a win over Ruslan Ponomariov. They went into a line of the Bf4 QGD that's generally very drawish, but Giri found a promising idea for a single game. He grabbed Ponomariov's d-pawn and dared his opponent to prove counterplay, and it worked! Soon they reached a double rook ending where White remained a pawn ahead, and with a little help he converted the full point.

    Standings After Round 7:

    1. Kramnik 6
    2. Le 4
    3. Giri 3.5
    4. Ponomariov 3
    5. Nakamura 2.5
    6. Meier 2

    Round 8 Pairings:

    • Le - Kramnik
    • Meier - Giri
    • Ponomariov - Nakamura

    Tournament site here, games (with my notes) here.

    Monday
    Jul252011

    Dortmund 2011, Round 5: Kramnik Wins Again

    The tournament is only half over, but Vladimir Kramnik has to be a happy man at the moment. Going into the rest day, he leads with a spectacular 4.5/5, can boast of a spectacular 3087 TPR, and is near 2800 on the Live Rating list. Today's victory came over Anish Giri, who was comprehensively outplayed. (Kramnik should enjoy it while he can - I'm sure Giri will be a member of the 2800 club in the not-too-distant future.)

    In second, deservedly, is the one player who managed half a point against Kramnik, Le Quang Liem. Ruslan Ponomariov was the victim, who may have started on the path to defeat with 31...Qb6, entering an ending where White's active knights and powerful passed b-pawn eventually led to a White win.

    Finally, Hikaru Nakamura could have (at least) drawn at will a couple of times against Georg Meier, but as he did yesterday he got the bright (or not) idea to play for a win. His reward was to suffer until move 150 before finally scraping out a draw. Not smart, but you never know: maybe this successful defense will psychologically energize him.

    Standings After Round 5:

    1. Kramnik 4.5
    2. Le 3
    3. Ponomariov 2.5
    4. Giri 2
    5-6. Meier, Nakamura 1.5

    Pairings for Round 6 (on Wednesday):

    • Le - Meier
    • Ponomariov - Kramnik
    • Nakamura - Giri

    Tournament site here; games (with my comments) here.

    Saturday
    Jul232011

    Dortmund 2011, Round 2: Kramnik Leads With 2/2

    It's a rip-roaring start for Vladimir Kramnik at Dortmund, his favorite tournament*: 2/2, a 3013 TPR (granted, it's very early) and with Karjakin's struggles in the World Team Championship he has moved comfortably back into 4th place on the Live Rating list at 2789.3. All pleasant news for him, but the play's the thing, and his win over Georg Meier was exciting - it seemed more like a Shirov win than a traditional Kramnik victory. In a complicated position two pawns down and with the possibility of repeating moves, Kramnik found a (temporary) piece sac that randomized the position. Meier almost immediately went astray, and after a series of power moves by Kramnik the game was over.

    Ruslan Ponomariov bounced back from his first round to loss to Kramnik with a fairly quick win over Anish Giri. Ponomariov enjoyed a positional advantage, but the main culprit was Giri's 25...Rd8?, overlooking some simple tactics based on his weak back rank. It soon cost him a pawn, which in turn soon cost him the game.

    Le Quang Liem was unable to obtain anything with White against Hikaru Nakamura, and the game was quickly drawn.

    Standings After Round 2:

    1. Kramnik 2
    2-4. Nakamura, Le, Ponomariov 1
    5-6. Giri, Meier .5

    Round 3 Pairings:

    • Kramnik - Le
    • Giri - Meier
    • Nakamura - Ponomariov

    Games, with my (light) comments, here.

     

    * At least it should be his favorite tournament, considering his fantastic results there.

    Friday
    Dec312010

    Vladimir Kramnik on 2010

    In this interview, Vladimir Kramnik discusses not the number 2010 but his form this past year (especially in London) and his plans and ambitions for the first part of 2011.

    Yet another good read from the Chess in Translation site!

    HT: Brian Karen

    Saturday
    May012010

    Kramnik Wins the President's Cup On Tiebreak

    The very strong rapid event in Baku, the President's Cup, finished today in a success for ex-world champ Vladimir Kramnik. Kramnik, along with Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Gata Kamsky, finished with 5 out 7, but Kramnik had the best tiebreaks and was declared the winner. (I'm not sure what the tiebreaker was, but the three players did an ouroboros: Kramnik beat Kamsky, Kamsky beat Mamedyarov, and Mamedyarov beat Kramnik.)

    Other scores: Teimour Radjabov 3.5, Judit Polgar & Emil Sutovsky 3, Rauf Mamedov 2 and Gadir Guseinov 1.5.

    There will be a blitz tournament there tomorrow with 16 players. I don't know who the other eight players will be, but it sure looks like it's going to be a very strong event.

    Games, pictures and more info here.

    Sunday
    Mar212010

    Amber, Day 8: Kramnik Defeats Carlsen; Ivanchuk Leads by a Point

    There were a lot of draws today, but the battle of the headliners, Carlsen and Kramnik, provided plenty of excitement. Unfortunately, some very good chess alternated with blunders in both games. In the first game, Carlsen chose a gambit line in the Vienna QGD, but unaccountably seemed completely unprepared. Kramnik convincingly outplayed him, but faced with the very last problem Carlsen could pose, Kramnik blundered - giving Carlsen excellent drawing chances. Carlsen missed it, and went on to lose the game "properly," as if the exchange of errors never happened.

    In game 2, a Bayonet King's Indian, Carlsen spoiled a position where he was no more than slightly worse with a blunder, after which he was two pawns down for nothing. Normally, Kramnik would be as good as gold in such a situation, but not today. As in game 1, there was an exchange of unseen blunders (42.Qc2??, 42...Rc1??), but Kramnik's third blunder of the day - after a serious error by Carlsen! - cost him the win. I guess the players are wearing down at the end of a long tournament. The blunders notwithstanding, however, Carlsen deserves credit for his resilient defense in a long-lost position.

    Ivanchuk started the day half a point ahead of Carlsen, but was only able to pad his lead by another half point, despite the chance to face tailender Dominguez. In both games Ivanchuk made it to a rook ending with an extra pawn, but you know what they say about "all" rook endings. Both games were drawn.

    Gelfand gained ground on Carlsen (but not Ivanchuk) with a pair of draws against Aronian, and is tied for third with Kramnik. Another half a point back are Grischuk and Karjakin, due to the former's 1.5-.5 victory over the latter. Here are the full (combined) standings:

    Combined Standings After Round 8:

    1. Ivanchuk 11

    2. Carlsen 10

    3-4. Kramnik, Gelfand 9.5

    5-6. Grischuk, Karjakin 9

    7-8. Gashimov, Svidler 8.5

    9. Aronian 7

    10. Ponomariov 6.5

    11. Smeets 4

    12. Dominguez 3.5

     

    Tomorrow is a rest day; here are the round 9 pairings, coming Tuesday:

    Gashimov - Ivanchuk

    Kramnik - Svidler

    Gelfand - Karjakin

    Ponomariov - Aronian

    Grischuk - Smeets

    Dominguez - Carlsen

     

    Finally, the two Carlsen-Kramnik games can be found here, with my comments, and the tournament website is here.

    Tuesday
    Jan262010

    Wijk aan Zee, Round 9 Games

    Not all of them, of course, but I've included seven for your instructional and aesthetic benefit. (Carlsen-Kramnik is among them, of course.) Have a look, here.