Viswanathan Anand vs Vladimir Kramnik (2004)

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Viswanathan Anand vs Vladimir Kramnik
TCh-FRA Nat1 Final (2004), Belfort FRA, rd 10, May-10
Spanish Game: Closed Variations (C84) · 1/2-1/2

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Nov-25-07		acirce: <Q: What about team championships, where people travel halfway round the world, meet someone they know well and play a quick draw? Isn’t that also counter-productive? Anand: I guess you are referring to my game against Kramnik in France? I wouldn’t say this is something that is typical for team tournaments, it happens everywhere else. For example in France Kramnik played the Anti-Marshall, I found this move Ne3, which was an improvement on his game from the previous day, and actually it created interesting possibilities for White. But right the next move I made a mistake, and then the position completely fizzled out. It is in the nature of these openings, like the Sveshnikov or the Anti-Marshall, that you make just one inaccurate move and the position just fizzles out. We could have plodded on for a while, but essentially the game is dead. It’s something very fundamental in chess.> http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...

Nov-25-07		fgh: Very interesting opinion from Anand, thanks for posting it <acirce>.

Sep-20-22		plang: 24 hours later Kramnik repeated Anand's 13 Ne3 against Almasi and won a nice game (game not included in this database). Kramnik: "Some thirty years ago the development of the knight in the Ruy Lopez at any square other than g3 would have provoked a storm of indignation in all strata of society. As is said by the Soviet chess trainers of those times, "For such moves we excluded pupils from the chess club at the Pioneer Palace." Modern chess is characterised by the fact that many generally accepted dogmas are being questioned. In my view, in this situation the position of the knight at e3 is somewhat more flexible than at g3: it is nevertheless aiming for f5, but at the same time it controls the centre, hindering the typical d6-d5 advance. Another plus is that it can "leap" to g4."

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