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In terms of style he is the heir of former world champions, Petrosian and Karpov. He is a virtuoso of positional play and endgame technique. He does not seek kingside attack and combinative play like Kasparov and Shirov, but exerts tactical control once he has the upper hand in the position. His Achilles’ heel is his handling of irrational positions. Sometimes he loses his bearings in those positions. This CD offers a comprehensive view of Kramnik’s career so far. The distribution of material here follows the standard Informant format:
CLOSE-UP
GAMES
CREATIVITY
PLAY LIKE KRAMNIK In 4 different formats (Chess Informant Expert, PGN, ChessBase and Chess Assistant) The section Close-up offers biographical data and tournament crosstables. Kramnik won the World Junior Championship in 1991. He became a GM in 1992 when he was seventeen- years-old. He had the best individual result, 8.5 points out of 9 rounds in the Manila Olympiad. He became a world championship candidate in 1994 only to be beaten by Gelfand ( 4½-3½). He received a further setback when he lost to Shirov (3½5½). Unfortunately, no sponsors could be found for Kasparov –Shirov match. So it was an irony of fate that Kramnik became the world championship challenger to Kasparov in 2000. He beat Garry with the score of 8½-6½ (2 wins, 12 draws and no loss!). The rest is history. Since his debut in the international arena Kramnik has won a number of elite competitions including Linares, Wijk-aan –Zee and Melody Amber tournaments. In the main section there are 843 published games (1988-2006) of which 391 are annotated by Kramnik. Here a comparison with the other two Informant CDs on Kasparov and Anand is inevitable. Kasparov invariably offers very detailed annotations. He has few peers in sheer depth of analysis. Anand focuses only on the critical points of the game, and from this point of view his annotations are lucid and illuminating. Kramnik, however, is not always forthcoming in his annotations, especially, in the opening phase of the game. The next section Creativity has a selection of games including 6 golden games, 100 Best games and games selected by the Informant Jury. They are supplemented by an analysis of opening novelties and the games in which they were produced. The last section Play like Kramnik includes positions with standard themes like attack, defence and endings. This CD is worth viewing, especially, on account of the Anand-Kramnik World Championship Match this month (October 2008). The following
game from the CD is a miniature in which Kramnik outwits Ivanchuk: Vladimir Kramnik –
Vassily Ivanchuk Queen’s Gambit Declined
(D45)
The next game shows Kramnik emerging victorious from a lost position. Viswanathan Anand –
Vladimir Kramnik Ruy Lopez Berlin Defence (C67)
From the Publisher’s site: http://www.sahovski.com/pgn/article60_ws.htm Highly Recommended
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Vladimir
Kramnik (b.1975-) is a player with a striking original talent and he would
go down in history as the nemesis of Kasparov whom he beat in the World
championship match without conceding a single loss.
