GM Gustafsson (2603) – GM Kramnik (2788) [D85]
28.06.2008 / Dortmund – Round 1
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Nf3 c5 8.Bb5+ Nc6 9.0–0 cxd4 10.cxd4 0–0 11.Be3 Bg4 12.Bxc6 bxc6 13.Rc1 Qa5 14.Qd2 Qxd2 15.Nxd2 Rfd8 16.Nb3 a5 17.Rxc6 a4 18.Nc5 Bxd4 19.Bxd4 Rxd4 20.f3 Rc8 21.Rxc8+ Bxc8 22.Rc1 a3 23.Nb3 Rd8 24.Rc7 Be6 25.Ra7 Rd1+ 26.Kf2 Bxb3 27.axb3 Rd2+ 28.Kg3 a2 29.b4 Rb2 Game drawn ½–½
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Vladimir would be a great advertising
medium for Axe (Lynx), his game vs. Gustafsson must have been sweaty 😉
Drawnik strikes again!
Kramnik got stuck in the loo 😉
Suprising to me that Kramnik played the Grunfeld with black.
This has to be the draw of Gustafsson’s life.
It’s a well out-fought draw. Kramnik use to play Grunfeld quite lot lot in the past, and there’s nothing wrong with this choice. Grunfeld is agressive, as Kasparov successfully showed before him.
Yes, the Grunfeld is a fine opening, but I don’t recall Kramnik playing the BLACK side of it. I did a db search, and found 5 games, the last from 2001. However, he backed into it via an English. The other games also came out of an english move order. The only game where he played a pure Grunfeld move order was a simul game in 1996.
Hence my surprise…