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Crushing Magnus Carlsen in Vladimir Kramnik’s Style!

March 23, 2019 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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Vladimir Kramnik, the Russian chess grandmaster, is one of the finest positional chess players in the history. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007.

The Dortmund Sparkassen (2007) had a really interesting pool of players – apart from Kramnik and Carlsen, there were other great players like Anand, Mamedyarov, and Gelfand. It was the fourth round of the tournament and Kramnik had White pieces against 17-year old Carlsen. The Catalan opening was played.

Perhaps, the young prodigy from Norway didn’t have much experience as his opponent during that time, but Kramnik crushed Carlsen fairly quickly and easily. It took only 22 moves for the Russian to gain a positional advantage, with which he made Carlsen resign after 30 moves. The game is a clear example of Kramnik’s brilliant positional play – all it took was a couple of perfect piece exchanges in favour of him.

You can watch the instructive video analysis of this game presented by Manuel Ocantos, one of the RCA Team members.

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