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Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Russian: Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the 14th undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007.
Vladimir Kramnik: 2817 2016-10 1975 Former world champion (2000–2007), formerly world no. 1 (1996, 2008), formerly youngest player to achieve 2800+ rating 10 Bulgaria: Veselin Topalov: 2816 2015-07 1975 Highest-ranked Bulgarian player (since 1993), former world champion (FIDE 2005–2006), formerly world no. 1 (2006–2007, 2008–2009)
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2018 was the 80th edition of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament.It was held in Wijk aan Zee (with away days in Hilversum and Groningen) from 13 to 28 January 2018. [1]
Garry Kasparov, the defending champion, played Vladimir Kramnik. The match was played in a best-of-16-games format, with Kramnik defeating the heavily favoured Kasparov. [3] Kramnik won the match with two wins, 13 draws and no losses. [4] To the supporters of the lineal world championship, Kramnik became the 14th world chess champion.
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He would dominate for 22 years from 1984 until his retirement from professional chess on 10 March 2005, with three brief interruptions: Anatoly Karpov briefly held the world number one ranking again in July 1985, as well as during 1994 when FIDE excluded Kasparov from the list; and the fourth world number one, Vladimir Kramnik, briefly held the ...
The Classical World Chess Championship 1995, known at the time as the PCA World Chess Championship 1995, [1] was held from September 10, 1995, to October 16, 1995, on the 107th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.