Picture and story courtesy of ChessBase
The magazine Komsomolskaya Pravda has published pictures and some details of the marriage between Vladimir Kramnik and the French journalist Marie-Laure Germon. The civil ceremony took place on December 31, 2006…
The wedding took place in a close family circle, in Kramnik’s appartment in the centre of Paris. Accompanied by by about 40 relatives and close friends the couple proceeded to the registration office where the civil ceremony was performed. After that they walked back to the appartment. There a wedding cake awaited them, baked in the form of a chessboard, with chocolate pieces. The position on the cake was the final position of his match in Elista, after which he became the unified world champion.
You can read the full article on chessbase.com.
Congratulations to World Champion Vladimir Kramnik and his bride Marie-Laure Germon!
Cmon Vlady, please dont take a draw. Atleast now you should mate! 😉 congrats!
Asim
How about crediting Chessbase for the text as well rather than plagiarizing it?
1) Indicate that it is Chessbase’s by surrounding it by quotation marks.
2) “Chessbase.com” is all we need to know, rather than “You can read the details on chessbase.com.” Also possible is the simple, “You can read THE REST OF the details on chessbase.com.”
Geez, lighten up. I don’t think her intention was to plagerize the chessbase article and pass it off as her own writing. Perhaps some quotes would have been good but I was able to understand that the article originated at Chessbase.com
They do make a fetching couple…
chessbase?? i read the very same article days ago on russian pravda. chessbase ripped it too. actually, they are all just trying to get it into your attention… sheesh…
good thinking putting it on the new years. that way, you wont forget the anniversary. smart on you vlad!
The entire world will celebrate Vlad’s wedding every year on New Year’s Eve.
They do make a beautiful couple. I certainly hope they have a wonderful long and very happy life together.
My only opinion is that there are now too many people in the world and we dont need more kids. I would like to see a reduction of the human population from some 7 billion down to no more than 1 billion. And having kids just expands the population toward the 15 billion mark.
This is the only way to stop the environmental catastrophy the world is heading toward.
Imagine there were 15 billion gorillas and 15 billion elephants and 15 billion chimpanzees in the world.
There would be no room for 15 billion people to destroy the environment.
I wonder if she’ll find out if chess players do “mate better”.
For the wedding cake, I would have very much preferred to have a picture of Topalov on the cake. That way, Vlady will really get into cutting up the cake
What is the name —
— for the predicted maximum number of humans that will ever inhabit the Earth simultaneously, before their sheer numbers and environmental wear&tear cause the death rate to match or exceed the birth rate?
G
Now Vlad has an excuse for all the draws in Corus.
He’s been too busy learning French
“””Anonymous said…
What is the name —
— for the predicted maximum number of humans that will ever inhabit the Earth simultaneously, before their sheer numbers and environmental wear&tear cause the death rate to match or exceed the birth rate?”””
That is a good question. I have no idea. However, from my experience once the maximum is reached the decline is sharp and fast and deep. It comes from run away diseases although that includes insanity and mental illness also along with physical illnesses. Everything just falls apart.
These experiments have been run for a long time. They put animals or fish in a fixed environment and allow them to expand and watch what happens.
My opinion is that the Global Warming is going to precipitate the panic. All governmental economies will collapse and chaos will rule. People will attack people. It will be mass anarchy like the world has never seen.
I do not know if humans will survive the collapse. The sooner the collapse the better some will survive. The reproductive ability of humans is already in decline and the entire environment might become inhospitable if things go on for too long.
I can understand why there are so many people attacking Kramnik for accepting early draw offers when playing with black pieces.
It is very easy to be jealous of him due to the following facts :
He is tall, good looking, very smart, cool as ice (remember the last game ot the title match with Leko, at the top of his profession (unified world champion) and has overall positive scores against the rest of the best (Kasparov, Topalov etc).
He is immaculate at the stratosphere and some people are trying to throw mud to him from the holes that they live in. Eventually these people will evolve into human beings, discover the rules of physics and will understand that trying to throw mud to stratosphere is absurd.
Hmmm…where have we heard this before? Perhaps a lesson is in order:
There are three distinct classes of societies in the world: The developed societies, the developing societies, and the under-developed societies. In the developed societies, college-degreed adult couples having children average less than two (2) children per household. In the developing societies, college-educated couples are less than 10%, and households average approx. four (4) children per family. In the under-developed nations, where most families are poor, health services are scarce, and infant mortality is high, families average upwards of five children. Some would even contend that the Anglo-Saxon heritage adults are having a reproductive frenzy due to their ladies of child-bearing age foregoing families for careers, along with the surge of Latinos and other population explosions. Of course, none of this even touches upon the issues of human selfishness and the starving rat syndrome.
“My only opinion is that there are now too many people in the world and we dont need more kids. I would like to see a reduction of the human population from some 7 billion down to no more than 1 billion. And having kids just expands the population toward the 15 billion mark.”
And Kramnik’s already back playing chess again?
If I was just married to that foxy lady, I wouldn’t play chess for at least the next two years…