[Event “Corus A”]
[Date “2010.01.21”]
[Round “5”]
[White “Smeets, J.”]
[Black “Kramnik, V.”]
[Result “0-1”]
[ECO “B07”]
[WhiteElo “2657”]
[BlackElo “2788”]
1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Be3 a6 5. Be2 Bg7 6. Qd2 b5 7. Bh6 O-O 8. e5 dxe5 9. Bxg7 Kxg7 10. Bf3 c6 11. dxe5 Qxd2+ 12. Kxd2 Rd8+ 13. Ke3 Ng4+ 14. Bxg4 Bxg4 15. h3 Bf5 16. g4 Bxc2 17. Rc1 b4 18. Rxc2 bxc3 19. Nf3 cxb2 20. Rb1 Rd5 21. e6 c5 22. exf7 Nc6 23. Rbxb2 Rad8 24. Ke4 Kxf7 25. Rc3 Nd4 26. Ne5+ Ke8 27. Rb6 Nb5 28. Rc2 R5d6 29. Nc4 Rd3 30. Ne3 Ra3 31. Rb2 c4 32. Ke5 c3 33. Rc2 Rd2 34. Rc1 Rxf2 35. Nd5 c2 36. Nb4 Re3+ 37. Kd5 Rd2+ 38. Kc6 Rc3+ 39. Kb7 Nd6+ 40. Ka8 a5 {Black wins} 0-1
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Please post the original website too!
Pirc Alert!
Nice win by Kramnik.
He’s off!
From Mig Greengard:
According to Kramnik, speaking to Macauley, he picked up a book on the Pirc on the way out of the hall the other day and decided to use it against Smeets. He jokingly started the interview by saying he knew Smeets would refute the Petroff, so he had to play something else. Hilarious. I’m digging this laid-back Parisian Kramnik. I hope the whole clip goes up at chessclub.com. After four draws and “giving” Petroff draws to Dominguez and Caruana, Big Vlad was hungry for more and Smeets, with 0.5/4, was a tempting little piece of frikadellen. Sadly for the Dutchman, Kramnik’s tactics were rewarded and Black was for choice by move 14, according to Speelman on Chess.FM. Queenless middlegames are what Kramnik lives for and he quickly showed why to notch his first win. Ruthless class warfare.