Kramnik - World Chess Champion 2000-2007

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Armenia wins the Olympiad for the second time in a row

Russia won 7 matches, drew 2 and lost 2 to take the fifth place in the World Chess Olympiad that took place in Drresden, Germany

The super strong Russian Team, with the highest Elo average in history, 2756, with the full line-up being Kramnik (2772), Morozevich (2787), Svidler (2727), Grischuk (2719) and Jakovenko (2737) was not enough to win the title and once more had to content themselves with a modest finish.

GM Vladimir Kramnik, FIDE World Champion 2000-2007, defended the first board of the Russian Team. Kramnik drew his first 4 games after tough fights against Milton (Poland), Dominguez (Cuba),Sasikiran (India) and Naiditsch (Germany). He then beat Short in the 6th round and drew against Aronian in the 7th, Ivanchuk in the 9th, Beliavsky in the 10th and Shirov on the 11th His final score was 5/9, unbeaten.

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Anand wins World Championship Match [10/29/2008 12:00:00 AM] The match was played in the city of Bonn, under excellent conditions. Both players fought hard an at the end Anand won by 6.5 to 4.5 after 11 games
World Championship Match preview [9/26/2008 12:00:00 AM] The first game will be played on Tuesday, October 14th in Bonn, Germany. A lot of information is being published on Internet these days as we approach the big event.
SCHEDULE & REGULATIONS OF 2008 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP MATCH [9/25/2008 12:00:00 AM] The games of the World Chess Championship 2008 will be played with classical time control. The first game will be played on Tuesday, October 14th in Bonn, Germany, at 15:00 local time
Ivanchuk wins the Tal Memorial event in Moscow. Kramnik ties for second [8/27/2008 12:00:00 AM] The super strong Tal Memorial event was played in Moscow from 18-27 August. Ivanchuk was the clear winner, while Kramnik tied for second place with a few other grandmasters
EUROCEMENT group is the personal sponsor to Vladimir Kramnik at the World Chess Championship Match [8/5/2008 12:00:00 AM] In 2007 the holding was a General Partner of the II Tal Memorial, organized by the Russian Chess Federation. Now they will support Vladimir Kramnik in his endeavours to optimally prepare this challenging duel to bring back the World Chess Championship title to Russia
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12th November - 25th November 2008: Chess Olympiad 2008
Venue: Dresden, Germany
Official Website: http://www.dresden2008.org

Kramnik - Anand WCC Bonn 2008	196	11/24/2008
Kramnik's Top Events	94	11/12/2008
Kramnik - Topalov WCC Elista 2006	1238	10/6/2008
Kramnik against Deep Fritz	220	9/17/2008
The predecessors interview	31	11/7/2008
Kramnik's Fan Forum	506	11/20/2008
World Chess Championship (general)	299	9/20/2008

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