Kramnik is distancing himself from the field by defeating Gelfand 1.5 – .5 in round 8 while Ivanchuk lost to Carlsen .5 – 1.5.
Sunday March 25 Round VIII
Blind
Van Wely-Aronian 0-1
Morozevich-Leko 1-0
Kramnik-Gelfand 1-0
Ivanchuk-Carlsen 1/2-1/2
Radjabov-Svidler 0-1
Anand-Vallejo 1-0
Rapid
Aronian-Van Wely 1/2-1/2
Leko-Morozevich 1-0
Gelfand-Kramnik 1/2-1/2
Carlsen-Ivanchuk 1-0
Svidler-Radjabov 1-0
Vallejo-Anand 0-1
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Topalov would have won if he was invited. Topalov rules!
Topalov? who is he? a new talent?
a sorry this topalov who is known as weak endgame tactics sorry at first glance i can not understand who was he 😀 it must be a joke that topalov would win this turney. kramnik would easily smash out his brain into pieces in the blindfold section. look at this he is going one by one radjabov, anand, leko, morozevich, gelfand, aronian so who is being topalov?
‘Incredible how he played this. I can only think of Fischer or Karpov who could do this. Most grandmasters wouldn’t even manage this with sight of the board.’
GM Boris Gelfand, commenting about his blindfold loss against World Chess Champion Vladimir Kramnik!
25.03.200t, Amber Tournament.
“Most grandmasters wouldn’t even manage this with sight of the board.”
Just 1 guess is required here: guess how come he is playing so well?
Just ask Topalov, in case you have not yet guessed it. 😉
Kramnik is indisputably the world’s top blindfold player. Other top GMs are great at blindfold also, e.g. Morozevich, but Kramnik routinely topples the best. When it comes to rapid, Anand reigns supreme, and sure enough he is leading the rapid section but Kramnik is in fantastic form regardless of the format. Comments that imply ‘cheating’ e.g. anonymous at 7:32pm aren’t worthy of a response.
Kramnik has a chess set in the toilet
“anonymous” at Monday, March 26, 2007 2:13:00 AM
it seems someone cares about Kramnik’s toilet so much! Are you pathetic?
May be you are the cleaner of Kramnik’s toilet where do you know that he has a chessset there?!!!