With all respect to the silicon majesty, Shredder rather proved here that these endgames are still very weak spot of his own as well as of other beasts of his kind. Why should be White so cooperative to weaken his Pawns by clueless 37.g4? Why not simply 37.Ne3? Pawn a4 is going to fall soon and black has no counter-play here. I cannot say that this is surely won for white but I don't think that practical chances of black to save it are any significant.

It was part of a plan to weaken white's k-side pawns with the idea of eliminating them all, so that Black could sacrifice the bishop for White's b-pawn and draw the game because White would have insufficient mating material. Unfortunately Leko fell one pawn short -- he could not eliminate White's g-pawn. I don't know if he could have played better after 34....f5, but a lot of kibitzers thought 40....Kf6 was stronger than 40....Ng5. I look forward to seeing some GM analysis.

This leads only to K+B+N vs K ending which is lost for black. It's worth to try in time pressure or against any weaker player as the winning method here is a little bit less obvious than K+R vs K or K+2B vs K but to try to play it against Kramnik with much more than 30 secs on clock would be quite queer.:-)

That would put White comfortably within the 50 move rule, even if he took a couple mistaken paths.

Hallucinating again? What is it with you and your need to demonize "Kramnik fans"? I doubt there is even one who has been trying to portray Topalov's supporters as patzers, much less "quite a number".

That's just one indirect example. There are other little comment like that as well. And why are you overreacting to this? Are you happened to be one of them?lol

Hilarious. Just the kind of reaction you wanted to see, I figure. Ok, I won't be feeding the trolls no more. There was actually a chess discussion going on here. My apologies.

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