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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)
Kramnik had success against Kasparov's King's Indian Defence. In the title match Kramnik dropped the Sicilian and successfully employed the Berlin defence of the Ruy Lopez . The score was 5–3 in favor for Kramnik after the match, but Kasparov narrowed the gap to 5–4 in Astana 2001.
If one counts forfeited games as a loss in zero moves, [7] then there have been many such forfeits, with some notable examples being Game 2 of the 1972 world championship match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer, which Fischer defaulted, [8] and Game 5 of the 2006 world championship match between Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov, which ...
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.
In an interview in 2011, Vladimir Kramnik said about Anand: "I always considered him to be a colossal talent, one of the greatest in the whole history of chess", "I think that in terms of play Anand is in no way weaker than Kasparov", and "In the last 5–6 years he's made a qualitative leap that's made it possible to consider him one of the ...
Anand and Kramnik in the World Chess Championship 2008. Viswanathan Anand (born 11 December 1969) and Vladimir Kramnik (born 25 June 1975) have played 93 classical chess games, of which Kramnik won eleven, Anand won eleven, and 71 games were drawn.
The match began with eight consecutive draws, a record for the World Chess Championship until the 2018 Carlsen–Caruana match. In game 9 Anand, with white, broke through Kasparov's Sicilian Scheveningen defence to win. Kasparov hit back immediately in game 10, with a novelty in the Ruy Lopez Open Defence.