Sunday, July 12, 2009

Kramnik Wins Dortmund

Kramnik's style of chess may not gain a huge fan base but he once again proved his critics wrong. In his first classical tournament this year he was able to achieve some important milestones. In round 4 he finally won a game with the black pieces against Naiditsch, his last one (in a classical time control) was way back in 2006 against Topalov in their World championship match. In round 8 Kramnik was able to crush top seed Magnus Carlsen who had been leading the tournament throughout. This win gave Kramnik the lead which was bolstered by a final round win to finish on +3 undefeated.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi, Mathew James Stewart here from the Wanganui Club. Would just like to invite you to play in the club standard championship which are starting in the next couple of weeks. You'd be very welcome tp play. I f you're interested could you email me on j.p.stewart@xtra.co.nz

Cheers
James