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Kramnik had exceptionally good results in 2009, winning once again in Dortmund and then winning the Category 21 ( average Elo = 2763 ) Tal Memorial in Moscow with 6 / 9 and a 2883 performance rating ahead of world champion Anand, Vassily Ivanchuk, Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Boris Gelfand, former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov, Peter Leko, Peter Svidler and Alexander Morozevich.
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Kramnik and had
During his reign as world champion, Kramnik never regained the world number-one ranking, doing so only in January 2008 after he had lost the title to Viswanathan Anand ; as in 1996, Kramnik had the same FIDE rating as Anand ( 2799 ) but became number-one due to more games played within the rating period.
Kramnik won the match 8½-6½ without losing a game ( this was only the second time in history that a World Champion had lost a match without winning a single game ).
In February 2004 Kramnik won the Tournament of Linares outright for the first time ( he had tied for first with Kasparov in 2000 ), finishing undefeated with a + 2 score, ahead of Garry Kasparov, the world's highest-rated player at the time.
When Kramnik defeated Kasparov and inherited Kasparov's title, he also inherited some controversies because he was handpicked to play for the title after he had just lost the qualifying match against Alexei Shirov in 1998.
In May 2010 it was revealed that Kramnik had aided Viswanathan Anand in preparation for the World Chess Championship 2010 against challenger Veselin Topalov.
Kramnik also participated in Dortmund, but had a subpar showing, losing to eventual champion Ruslan Ponomariov and finishing in joint third place with 5 / 10.
Fritz had been chosen to play Kramnik by winning a qualifying event in Cadaques, Spain in 2001.
Under a scoring system of 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss, McShane finished joint second with Anand, behind Carlsen, whom McShane had beaten in their individual encounter, and ahead of Kramnik.
Vladimir Kramnik and Boris Gelfand are the leading practitioners as White and Ľubomír Ftáčnik has had many fine results with the Black pieces.
Kasparov played the Berlin Defence ( 3 ... Nf6 ), with which Vladimir Kramnik had drawn against Deep Fritz in the 2002 Brains in Bahrain match ( and which Kramnik had also successfully employed as a drawing variation against Kasparov himself in their 2000 World Championship match ).
A Queen's Gambit Accepted followed, and for a while Kasparov followed a rapid game he had won with Black against Kramnik in 2001.
* 2003 Péter Lékó ( Joint winner with Vladimir Kramnik ; but had a better tiebreak score )
Nakamura had a second consecutive disappointing performance, beginning at − 3 before winning his last two games, including a last-round win over tournament winner Kramnik on the black side of the King's Indian Defense, to finish at 4½ / 10.
When Kramnik defended his title at the Classical World Chess Championship 2004, he gave the title the name " Classical ", to emphasise the continuity that his title had with the tradition of defeating the previous titleholder.
While Vladimir Kramnik and Garry Kasparov opted not to participate in the event, they had both endorsed Schiller for this sensitive role during the planning stages.
Kramnik and good
Kramnik continued to produce good results, including winning at Dortmund ( outright or tied ) ten times from 1995 to 2011.
With its use by Vladimir Kramnik, the Catalan has recently gained a good deal of attention by high-level GMs.
Kramnik and results
In 2003, Polgár scored one of her best results: an undefeated clear second place in the Category 19 Corus chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, just a half-point behind future World Champion Viswanathan Anand, and a full point ahead of then-world champion Vladimir Kramnik.
Among his other notable results are first at Terrassa in 1991, joint first at Dos Hermanas in 1995 ( with Kamsky and Karpov ), joint first at Dortmund in 1998 ( with Kramnik and Svidler ) and clear first at Dos Hermanas in 1999, ahead of Kramnik, Anand, Svidler, Karpov, Veselin Topalov, Judit Polgár and others.
Among his most notable results are 7. 5 / 10 at the 2000 Chess Olympiad ( winning Bronze Medal for board 2 and gaining the highest Elo performance rating at 2803. 7 ) and 7 / 11 at the 2002 Chess Olympiad ; first place in the overall standings at the Amber tournament in 2002, 2004 ( shared with Kramnik ) and 2006 ( shared with Anand ); first place in Biel tournament three times: 2003, 2004 and 2006 ; and twice
Kramnik and 2009
The same position, except shifted to the e-file occurred in a 2009 game between Gata Kamsky and Vladimir Kramnik.
Kramnik and winning
With the white pieces, Kramnik pressed Kasparov hard, winning Games Two and Ten and overlooking winning continuations in Games Four and Six.
Here Kamsky, as Black, crushes future World Champion Kramnik en route to winning their 1994 Candidates match:
The Indian grandmaster Viswanathan Anand is considered the world's best Advanced Chess player, winning the three consecutive Advanced Chess tournaments in Leon in 1999, 2000 and 2001, before losing the title to Vladimir Kramnik in 2002.
Apart from his first place win in the overall tournament, he also took sole first place in the Rapid section of the tournament ( winning by a margin of 1½ points ) and shared first place in the Blindfold section with three other chess grandmasters: Kramnik, Morozevich, and Topalov.
Kramnik and Dortmund
Kramnik, winner at Dortmund 2007
* Dortmund 2001 ( joint first with Kramnik )
From July 21 – 31, Nakamura made his debut at the Dortmund Invitational in Germany ; the field comprised world No. 5 Kramnik, world No. 10 Ponomariov, world No. 27 Le Quang Liem, world No. 40 Giri, and Georg Meier.
The plan under this agreement when it was drawn up in 2002 was that reigning FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov and world number one on the FIDE Elo rating list Garry Kasparov played a match, and that the so-called " classical " world champion Vladimir Kramnik and winner of the 2002 Dortmund tournament ( which turned out to be Péter Lékó ) played each other.
He also finished tied for first with Vladimir Kramnik at the Dortmund 2006.
At age fourteen he defeated the reigning world champion, Vladimir Kramnik, during the 2004 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting, in a blitz game ( ten minutes for the entire game, plus five seconds per move ).
His superior tie-break in the latter gave him first place ( ahead of such a stars like Aronian, Radjabov, Mamedyarov, Ponomariov, Karjakin etc ...) and with it an invitation to the prestigious Dortmund tournament later in the year, in which he beat classical world champion Vladimir Kramnik, scoring 3. 5 − 5. 5.
Arkadij Naiditsch ( born 25 October 1985 in Latvia ) is a German chess Grandmaster ( title awarded in April 2001 ) who was the clear winner of the Dortmund Sparkassen 2005 Tournament, ahead of higher-rated and well-known players such as Loek Van Wely, Veselin Topalov, Peter Svidler, Vladimir Kramnik, Michael Adams, and Peter Leko.
Kramnik and then
After defeating world # 1 Carlsen for the second consecutive time, and then Shirov in his first two games, Kramnik drew his final four games to finish in clear first with 4. 0 / 6.
He then followed up with wins against Alexander Morozevich and Vladimir Kramnik, his combative performances rewarding voters of the online poll responsible for securing his wildcard place, ahead of Alexei Shirov and Shakhriyar Mamedyarov.
If 11. Nc3 Qa5 12. Qb3 then the game transposes into a game Kasparov previously played against Kramnik.
After drawing his first two games, Shirov then won three consecutive games, including his first victory over Kramnik since 2003.
Recently, Mamedyarov used it twice in 2004 ( scoring 1½ with a win against Van Wely ) when he was not already among the top-players, and six times in 2008 when he was about number 6 – 14 ; he scored five points with wins against former world champion Kramnik ( then ranked number three ), and grandmasters Tkachiev and Eljanov, but all six games took place in rapid or blitz events.
Kramnik and Category
In January 2007, Topalov finished in joint first place ( ahead of Kramnik, who finished 4th ) at the Category 19 Corus Chess Tournament along with Levon Aronian and Teimour Radjabov.
In January Radjabov shared first place at the Category 19 Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee with Veselin Topalov and Levon Aronian, ahead of Kramnik and Anand.
Kramnik and 21
As early as 1996, he was being invited to " supergrandmaster " events for the world's élite such as Las Palmas ( 5 / 10 ), the first category 21 tournament, played in December 1996, with Kasparov, Anand, Kramnik and Karpov participating.
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