Both players missed simple wins and it was a draw at the end. Aronian wins 4-2! Congratulations to GM Aronian and Armenia! What a great event!
GM Aronian (2759) – GM Kramnik (2772) [D12]
06.05.2007
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bf5 5.Nc3 e6 6.Nh4 Bg6 7.Nxg6 hxg6 8.g3 Nbd7 9.Bg2 dxc4 10.Qe2 Nb6 11.0-0 Bb4 12.Bd2 0-0 13.Ne4 Qe7 14.Bxb4 Qxb4 15.Nc5 Rab8 16.Rfc1 Rfd8 17.Qc2 Nfd7 18.Ne4 e5 19.a3 Qe7 20.Re1 Nf6 21.Ng5 exd4 22.exd4 Qd6 23.Nf3 Re8 24.Re5 Nfd7 25.Ra5 a6 26.Rd1 Rbd8 27.Bf1 Re7 28.Rg5 Qf6 29.Kg2 Rde8 30.h4 Qe6 31.a4 Qe4 32.Qc1 f6 33.Ra5 Qe6 34.Qc2 Qe4 35.Qc1 Kh8 36.Re1 Qg4 37.Rxe7 Rxe7 38.Bxc4 Nxc4 39.Qxc4 Qe4 40.Qb3 c5 41.dxc5 Qc6 42.Qc3 Re2 43.b4 Ne5 44.b5 Qe4 45.c6 Nd3 46.Qxd3 Qxd3 47.cxb7 Re8? [47…Qd8 48.bxa6 Qb6-+] 48.bxa6 Qb3 49.Rc5 Kh7 50.Rc8 Rg8 51.Nd4 Qb6 52.Rxg8 Kxg8 53.Kg1?? [53.a5 Qc7 54.Ne6 Qc6+ 55.Kh2 Qb5 56.Nc5+-] 53…Kh7 54.Nc6 Qb1+ 55.Kg2 Qe4+ Game drawn 1/2-1/2
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Susan:
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Susan Polgar
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Kramnik should have lost 5-1.
I don´t have a blogger account but I sent friday an e-mail, can you tell me if you have received. My name is Florentino Reyes.
Thanks.
Kramnik is too old for rapid games, i am sure Aronian didn’t give his 100 pourcent.
Now we have to read again Kramnik’s ‘explanations’ why he lost the match! and he had nothing to prove here and he’s the strongest anyway!
Will Kramnik make more excuses for losing?
Congratulations to Aronian!
When in history did a WC lose 3 games in a row?
Who’s the champion? Aronian is da man! Kramnik can’t use help in rapid 🙂
Susan,
You had not congratulated Kramnik when he had beaten Leko.
Your hate for him is very well known, and your biased approach is costing you lots of web clicks.
Good luck.
Someone can tell me how much time each side has in these rapid games ( Kramnik x Aronian ) ?
5 minutes each ou more?
25 minutes per side
Are you sure I did not congratulate Kramnik. Why don’t you read this link and see if you still disagree:
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2007/04/its-over-kramnik-defeated-leko-45-35.html
Just because you believe I am biased, it does not make it so.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
There we go! Kramnik only knows how to be a bully to Topalov, with the help of Russian imports of course. Aronian has real quality, wins many games and is probably harder to beat than Kramnik. Who else wins the World Cup without a single loss?!
I want to see these two play a classical match. Then you’ll see Kramnik get roasted like the chicken I am eating.
Kramnik even shamelessly took the half point Aronian gave him in game 5 by accepting draw in a position Aronian could win but for his respect for and refusal to humiliate Kramnik.
“Kramnik even shamelessly took the half point Aronian gave him in game 5 by accepting draw in a position Aronian could win but for his respect for and refusal to humiliate Kramnik. “
It’s not because of respect. Aronian was afraid of making another mistake like 33) .. R-a5 ?? which could easily cost him the full point if Kramnik would play 39) R-f7+. After 33).. R-a5 white is winning by force. A draw was winning the match and Aronian wanted to secure it. Chess players don’t have any pity for their opponents.
You seem to be romantic person, not pragmati at all, have you ever played chess at all ?
I don’t think that Susan hates Kramnik I know he likes Kramnik’s game style am I right Susan? Please speak first reading prior posts to see whether Susan hates someone or not.
Another thing is that Kramnik was very bad against Aronian but this means nothing, may be he was unconcentrated because of unknown reasons, we can only guess something like he was rested of Leko match and travel and did not find time to have a good preperation.
And I think Kramnik’s first win cost Kramnik relaxing, he thought that he would win this, too but Aronian was harder than Leko 🙂
Anyway Kramnik is champion and we can learn many things from his great sight of chess. He is an extraordinary chess player. And everyone can have ups and downs, watch Kramnik in Dortmund I am sure he will get it for 8th time!
By the way someone asking that loosing 3 in a row? so I must remind that are there any champion couldn’t beaten 86 games in a row in classical time controls???
Kramnik did this u know? 🙂
Best regards.
>>Will Kramnik make more excuses for losing?
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More? When has he done it before? You may be thinking of someone else. There is another GM famous for it, whose fans have been anxious of late to try to smoothe things over for him by arguing that everyone does it.
Unfortunately, the main effect of this is to show us another match (Kramnik-Aronian) that would be more interesting than Mexico City (Kramnik-Anand being the other one).
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When in history did a WC lose 3 games in a row?
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I think they all have at one time or another, with the possible exception of Capablanca. Fischer lost three in a row twice in his career (once in the 1959 Candidates, once at Piatagorsky II). If we count blitz and rapids, there are far too many examples to list.
So let’s narrow the question a bit by considering only sitting World Champions, and then narrow it further by saying they had to be playing in a World Championship match at the time. In that case, we have only 6 examples:
Steinitz lost 5 in a row in the 1894 match.
Euwe lost 3 in a row in 1937.
Botvinnik lost 3 in a row in 1954.
Smyslov lost 3 in a row in 1958.
Tal lost 3 in a row in 1961.
Kasparov lost in a row to Karpov in 1986.
Interestingly, Kasparov is the only one of the bunch who lost three in a row in a winning effort (though Botvinnik did hold on to draw the 1954 match).
In addition, Steinitz lost 4 in a row to Zukertort before beating him, though that doesn’t really count, since according to the match rules neither player was World Champion at the beginning of the match. Some sources name Steinitz the champion retroactively to 1866 though, so it’s worth mentioning just the same.
Trivia Time: Who was the first World Champion to lose a non-title match of any kind? Hint: The answer is not Deep Blue-Kasparov.
I’ll post the answer in a few days if nobody gets it.
“You seem to be romantic person, not pragmatic at all, have you ever played chess at all ?”
Why don’t you meet me on playchess and let me answer your silly question by thumping your skull in a few games of blitz. How many people do you know who use this blog and have never played chess?
I can boast of a respectable 2270 Elo, one junior national title, and a Board 3 place for my national team at the Bled Olympiad in Slovenia. What have you to boast of?
It’s not because of respect. Aronian was afraid of making another mistake like 33) .. R-a5 ?? which could easily cost him the full point if Kramnik would play 39) R-f7+. After 33).. R-a5 white is winning by force. A draw was winning the match and Aronian wanted to secure it. Chess players don’t have any pity for their opponents.
You seem to be romantic person, not pragmati at all, have you ever played chess at all ?
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Doubtful. As happened with Fischer, a lot of Topalov fans seem to support him based on nationalism, rather than love (or even knowledge of) the game.
You’ll notice a lot of attempts to mitigate Topalov’s sins by rationalizing that everyone does the same thing, and usually the examples designed to prove this are shaky or flawed. In this case, Topalov shamelessly took an unearned point that they want to explain away, so the point here is that other people shamelessly take points and half points too. They don’t really, but he *wishes* they did.
Trivia answer – Steinitz lost a postal match against Tschigorin. If you want OTB Lasker also lost to Tschigorin, although since he had to play White in the Rice Gambit in every game it’s not surprising.
If you want real chess, I’m out.
If anything is costing Susan clicks it’s her policy of allowing anonymous idiots like the one above to post.
Percy
>>If you want real chess, I’m out.
No, those are the right answers. The 2-0 postal match is dimly remembered today. Steinitz tried his two favorite innovations, the Nh3 line in the Two Knights Defense, and the Qf6 line in the Evans Gambit, and got toasted with them both.
Why do people play Nc3 with this opening?!? I’ve always played the opening without Nc3 and done very well.
Anyone?!?