Leko's Analysis

Leko's Analysis

The LÉKÓ, Péter GM 2741 versus CARLSEN, Magnus GM 2765 8-game rapid chess match starts today. Here is the official website: http://www.lekocarlsen.hu/eng/

Here is one of Leko's best games from the website:

Leko, Peter (2751) - Grischuk, Alexandr (2726)
Ruy Lopez [C88], World Championship, 2007 [Notes by Leko Peter]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.a4 b4 9.d3 d6 10.Nbd2 Be6 A very interesting move, but I felt relivied that my opponent had nearly used half an hour to come up with it. Against Anand in the 7th Round he played the "normal" 10...Na5.

11.Bxe6 fxe6 Here I also took some time and started to understand what attracted my opponent's attention when he chose to play 10...Be6. In return for the spoiled pawn-structure Black has a simple plan with ...Qe8 followed by ...Nh5 and ...Qg6, with nice counterplay.
12.Nf1 Qd7 A very healthy move. Of course 12…Nh5? would be just a big blunder because of 13.Nxe5!. But another interesting alternative was 12...Qe8, when I was planning to continue with 13.Ng3, and if 13...Nh5 then I thought that 14.Nxe5 is the point of my play, but Fritzy points out that after 14...dxe5 15.Nxh5 Nd4 Black surprisingly gets enough counterplay: 16.Ng3 (16.Be3 Nxf3+ 17.gxf3 Qxh5 with initiative) 16...Qc6!. Actually, I had seen this motif, but to be honest I probably underestimated it a bit. After 17.c3 bxc3 18.bxc3 Qxc3 the position is simply unclear and no more.

13.Ng3 Na5! 14.d4! This is not a very clean move and I was not too happy to make it, but it's the only princpied way to fight, not for the advantage, but for the initiative. It is remarkable to mention that by this point I had already used up 55 minutes, but my opponent was even ahead of me with one hour and 2 minutes. It definitely looks more natural to play 14.c3, but there is no time for it!: 14...bxc3 15.bxc3 Rab8 (15...c5!? 16.d4 exd4 17.cxd4 c4 is also possible) 16.d4 Nb3 17.Ra2 exd4 18.cxd4 Nxc1 19.Qxc1 Rb4! gives Black more than enough counterplay, and due to many exchanges it would have simplified the game too much.

14...exd4 15.Qxd4 c5 16.Qd3 Nc6 17.c3 White still could not develop the bishop, neither with 17.Bf4?! Ng4!, nor with 17.Bg5?! Ng4!. However, 17.h3!? was the other candidate, stopping ...Ng4, but Black also has another nice plan with 17...Ne8!, followed by Nc7, with approximate equality.

17...bxc3?! Black misses his chance to create dynamic counterplay with 17...Ng4!, but Grischuk was facing the same problems as I. If he calculated the very sharp and complicated lines for another 20 minutes, he might run into very bad time-trouble. After 17...Ng4 18.e5! is the critical move and the only one which came into consideration: 18...d5 19.h3 c4 20.Qc2 Rxf3. I think we both saw this idea, but without Fritz it's not easy to understand that after 21.gxf3 Ngxe5 22.f4 Nd3 23.Qxe6+ Qxe6 24.Rxe6 Black simply plays 24...Rc8, and instead of some compensation Black really has a good position. There is probably nothing better than 25.Nf5 Bf8 threatening Kf7 (25...Bf6 26.Rd6!) 26.Nd6 Bc7 27.Ne8 Rc8 28.Nd6, leading to a boring move repetition!

18.bxc3 Kh8 A typical reflex move. Now the same 18...Ng4 is not exactly the same, with the included capture on c3 favoring White: 19.e5 c4 20.Qxc4 Ncxe5 21.Nxe5 Nxe5 22.Qe2. This leads by force to a pleasant position for White, and I think that only Fritz can assess it is equal, not a human grandmaster!

19.h3! Now Black's situation will automatically become very unpleasant, not because the position is so bad, but simply because White has a much easier game and can slowly build up the pressure.

19...Qc7 20.Ng5! Ne5 21.Qe2 Qc8 22.f4 Nf7 23.Nf3! I think that White has to avoid exchanging pieces in such a type of position.

23...Rb8 24.c4 Gaining more and more space. The last couple of moves were clearly in White's favour. Now White has stabilized a clear advantage, but it's not easy to break Black's solid position.

24...Qb7 25.Bd2 Qb2 26.Qd3! Qb7 A sad decision, played instantly. The main line was starting with 26...Rb3, but after 27.Rab1! Rxd3 28.Rxb2 the white rook on the b-file will become very annoying combined with the e4-e5 threat: 28...Bd8 29.Rb7 Ra3 30.e5!, with a big advantage.

27.Bc3 Qc6 28.a5 Kg8 29.Rad1 Rbd8 30.f5 Everything was ready for this push.

30...e5 31.Nf1 Rb8 32.g4 h6 33.N1d2 Qc7! A very cool defensive resource! After this move he was left with 3 minutes! The ideal place for the black queen is on d8, to support d8-h4 diagonal.

34.Kh1 Qd8 35.Rg1 Nh7 36.Nf1 Bg5! 37.Ne3 Bxe3! 38.Qxe3 Rb3 39.Rd3 Nhg5? With less than a minute finally my opponent cracked under the pressure. He could have crowned his heroic defense by playing 39...Qf6!, an idea that's even hard to find with a lot of time! Now White should refrain from playing the thematic h3-h4 and should play positionally: 40.Bd2! Rb2 (40...Rxd3 41.Qxd3 is in White's favour) 41.Rb3 Rb8 42.Rxb8+ Rxb8 43.Qd3 with a white advantage, but Black can put up a tough fight.

40.Nd2 Ra3 41.h4 Now Black can't stop the g4-g5 advance anymore and the rest is just a matter of how long can Black hold on after that.

41...Nh7 42.Nf3 Nf6 43.g5 hxg5 44.hxg5 Nh5 45.Bd2! Ra4 Trying to create some counterplay, but for White is already enough to focus only on his own game. If 45...Rxd3 46.Qxd3 Nf4 then the simplest is 47.Bxf4 exf4 48.g6 Nh6 49.Qd5+ Kh8 50.Qd2 and taking on f4 wins.

46.Qe2 46.Qf2 was even stronger, but it does not really matter.

46...Ra2 46...Rxc4 loses immediately after 47.g6 Nh6 48.Bxh6 gxh6 49.Qa2 with a devilish pin.

47.Qe1 Nf4 48.Bxf4 exf4 49.Qh4 Qe8 A desperate attempt, but the total collapse is unavoidable: 49...Re8 50.f6! g6 51.Nh2 followed by Rh3. And after the "most logical" 49...Qe7 50.f6! Qxe4 51.g6 Nh6 52.f7+ Kh8 allows the nice tactical blow 53.Qxh6+, and wins.

50.g6 Nh6 51.Qxf4 Re2 52.Ng5! The last important move.

52...Qa4 After 52...Qxg6 the quiet 53.Qf3 does the job.

53.Qxd6 Qxc4 54.Qd5+ Everything else wins as well, but we were both short of time, so the following moves came out of human reflexes. 54.Qe6+ Qxe6 55.fxe6! (indicated by Fritz, of course!), followed by e7 and Rd8 is unstoppable.

54...Qxd5 55.Rxd5 c4 56.Rd7 c3 57.Ne6 Rc8 58.Rgd1 Rd2 59.R1xd2 cxd2 60.Rxd2 Black resigned, 1-0

Friday, May 23, 2008

8-game battle

8-game rapid match between GM Peter Leko and GM Magnus Carlsen
May 28 - June 1, 2008.

Location of the match: National Theatre of Miskolc (1 Déryné str, Miskolc)

27 May (Tuesday)
6.00 PM Opening ceremony and hosting of the draw at the National Theater of Miskolc

28 May (Wednesday)
4.30 PM The first game of the match.
6.00 PM The second game of the match. After finishing, the two grandmasters are giving a short press conference of 10-15 minutes.

29 May (Thursday)
4.30 PM The third game of the match.
6.00 PM The fourth game of the match. After finishing, the two grandmasters are giving a short press conference of 10-15 minutes

30 May (Friday)
4.00 – 6.00 PM Public Event
(Location: ITC International Trade Center – 1. Mindszent Square, Miskolc,– Rákóczi terem)

31 May (Saturday)
4.30 PM The fifth game of the match.
6.00 PM The six game of the match. After finishing, the two grandmasters are giving a short press conference of 10-15 minutes.

1 June (Sunday)
4.30 PM The seventh game of the match.
6.00 PM The eighth game of the match. After finishing, the two grandmasters are giving a press conference of about 30 minutes.
7.30 PM The closing ceremony of the match

Leko - Carlsen Match

About LÉKÓ PÉTER

Peter Leko was born on 8th of September 1979 in Szabadka/Subotica. He has been living in Szeged since the age of one where he was awarded honorary citizenship last year by the City Assembly. He has been playing chess since his age of seven. In 1994 he became grandmaster and U16 World Chess Champion beating Fisher’s record. He first appeared in the Hungarian national team on the Moscow Chess Olympiad. As regularly invited participant of the biggest tournaments he could manage to progress gradually on the world rank list.

He won the tournaments of Copenhagen, Havana and Yopal in 1995. In 1997 he was the third in Tilburg and Madrid, in 1998 the second in Tilburg. In 1999 he gained first place in Dortmund leaving Vladimir Kramnik, Vishwanathan Anand, Michael Adams and Anatoly Karpov behind. He played at the first table of the Hungarian Team in the European Championship in Baku where the team won silver medal after 14 unsuccessful years. The start of the following year was also great for him. In Budapest he won to Alexander Khalifman, the FIDE World Champion title-holder by 4,5-1,5 on a six-game match sponsored by WFG. Only half point missed to take the bronze medal in the Chess Olympiad in Istanbul.

In January 2001 he played a twelve-game rapid match against Vladimir Kramnik. The World Champion was only able to win by a very tight 7-5. From that time on Peter has had a new coach. With Arshak Petrosian a new age has begun to our grandmaster. In the year 2002 he achieved several successes. He won the Dubai Grand Prix, he was second in Essen and reached a very significant triumph by winning the World Champion candidate’s tournament and became Kramnik’s official challenger. At the Olympiad in Bled he remained undefeated as the first table player of the silver medalist Hungarian team.

Leko started the year 2003 also superbly. The trade press was enthusiastic about his triumph in Linares. His combinative play compelled admiration. The different problems in connection with the World Championship affected his performance negatively, but from the January 2004 he is back on track again. In Wijk aan Zee he finished unbeaten behind Vishy Anand on the second place tied with Adams. In Linares he has been quite long on the top but unfortunately he was deprived of the triumph by an unlucky loss to Kramnik and he was only the second tied with Kasparov. In the Petrosian Memorial Tournament in Moscow as a guest player of the Armenian national team he showed the best individual performance

In the World Championship final in Brissago he managed to stand up after a false start. After losing the first game he was able to equalize in the fifth, moreover he took the lead in the eighth by a superb win. Only a half point was needed to win the crown but the experienced opponent won the last game and defended his title.

In January Peter Leko won unbeaten in Wijk aan Zee so he can be proud of being able to win every remarkable chess tournament. This was a great achievement; among others he could beat Anand with black pieces. In Linares he was the only undefeated player of the seven and the 14 draws can only be written to the account of tiredness. He drew Adams by a great finish in Miskolc last year. After the eight exciting games the struggle ended in 4-4. In Dortmund he was only eighth out of ten and in the FIDE World Championship in San Luis he had to settle for the fifth place.

The weaker start influenced his performance shown in the Corus 2006 super tournament. The first half oh the traditional Linares Tournament has exceptionally been organized in Morelia, Mexico. As one of the most exclusive tournament of the year 2006 with a category of 20 and an ELO average of 2732. Leko started with a brilliant double win and had another victory on the fourth day so he concluded the Mexican half unbeaten, with half point advantage.

Our Grandmaster went on performing well in Linares, after 10 rounds he was on the lead by one point, however, with losing his last two games he finished only on the fourth place. That was rather depressing for him since he could be unbeaten for 12 games showing a balanced performance. He did not take part at the Olympiad in Turin and tried to focus on the Dortmund tournament where he, however, missed the first place again, this time he suffered a defeat in the last round against Kramnik.

In the course of the rapid duel fought by Leko Peter and the twelfth world champion of chess, Anatolij Karpov in the new shrine of chess, the National Theater of Miskolc, very interesting games could be observed by the competent audience also from the point of view of opening theory. Karpov protected his difficult positions with an unbelievable persistency and accelerated brilliantly when he hardly had any time left. Our Grandmaster claimed a 4,5-3,5 victory with a triumph in the third game, the other parties were concluded with draws full of struggle. The main patron of the event, Sandor Kali, Mayor of Miskolc declared the intention to continue the series of high level chess duels. Peter Leko plays in year 2007 against the Russian world champion, Vladimir Kramnik.

Leko concluded the year 2006 with a brilliant triumph. in the Memorial tournament of a category 20 organized in the Central Chess Club, Moscow for the memory of Mihail Tal our Grandmaster finished with 5,5 points just as the Ukrainian Ruslan Ponomariov and the Armenian Levon Aronian but with the Berger-Sonneborn evaluation Lékó could be victorious. Peter last tournament victory happened in 2005 on the Corus super tournament, he had to wait for a long time for the recent success. He could adopt his preparedness in the opening theory, he did not have any difficulties during the tournament, and moreover, his victories against Boris Gelfand and Aleksandr Morozevich were rather pretty. Peter played as black five games and remained unbeaten.

Peter Leko started the year 2007 also superbly, defeated Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk in the final match of the 1st ACP World Rapid Cup, organized by the Bank PIVDENNY in Odessa. Grandmasters who showed best results in more than 60 tournaments in the last two seasons, were invited to participate in the tournament. Leko’s duel against the Russian world champion, Vladimir Kramnik is going to be one of the highlights of the year, a serious challenge before the world champion candidate’s series in May. Peter Peter Leko is in the eight position on the actual world ranking list with an ELO-points 2738.

Peter Leko's Triumphs:

1995 Copenhagen
1997 Havana, Yopal
1999 Dortmund
2002 Dubai (rapid)
2002 Dortmund (Canditates Tournament)
2003 Linares2005 Wijk aan Zee
2006 Moscow
2007 Odessa (1st ACP Rapid World Cup)

http://www.lekocarlsen.hu/eng/leko.html

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Breaking News: Leko vs Carlsen Match

Location of the match: National Theatre of Miskolc

27 May (Tuesday)
18.00 óra Opening ceremony and hosting of the draw at the National Theater of Miskolc


28 May (Wednesday)
16.30 óra The first game of the match.
18.00 óra The second game of the match. After finishing, the two grandmasters are giving a short press conference of 10-15 minutes.


29 May (Thursday)
16.30 óra The third game of the match.
18.00 óra The fourth game of the match. After finishing, the two grandmasters are giving a short press conference of 10-15 minutes

30 May (Friday)
16.00 – 18.00 Public event
(Location: ITC International Trade Center – 1. Mindszent Square, Miskolc,– Rákóczi terem)

31 May (Saturday)
16.30 óra The fifth game of the match.
18.00 óra The six game of the match. After finishing, the two grandmasters are giving a short press conference of 10-15 minutes.


1 June (Sunday)
16.30 óra The seventh game of the match.
18.00 óra The eighth game of the match. After finishing, the two grandmasters are giving a press conference of about 30 minutes.
Kb. 19.30 The closing ceremony of the match

Announcement

The present year’s most prestigious clash in Hungary is going to be organized at the National Theater of Miskolc. The No. 1 Hungarian GM, Péter Lékó takes up a duel of eight games against the Norwegian Wunderkind, the pretender, Magnus Carlsen this time.

As the first move of the Lékó+ series Péter Lékó played against Michael Adams in 2005. The exciting duel ended up with a tie of 4-4.

In 2006 Lékó’s opponent was the twelfth world champion of chess, Anatolij Karpov, who, during his carrier, gained 166 competition victories setting a record that can not likely be broken in the future. The two leading players fought in the new shrine of chess, the beautiful National Theater of Miskolc. The auditorium was totally sold out. The fans on the spot and via internet were amazed by the games – with good reason. The homepage of the event, http://www.lekokarpov.hu/ was visited frequently by reaching more than 3 millions of clicks on it. Lékó put himself on the lead by winning the third game and he could preserve his advantage till the end gaining a victory of 4,5-3,5.

In the pursuance of the series last year, our GM’s opponent and the special guest of Miskolc was the recent World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik who deprived Garri Kasparov of his world championship title in London, in 2000. Kramnik defended his title against Péter Lékó in Brissago, Switzerland, in 2004. In the autumn of 2006 he won the world championship final for uniting titles against the Bulgarian Veselin Topalov in the tie-break. We could consider their duel of eight games in Miskolc as the return match for Brissago, although, as it already happened in Budapest, 2001, they are going to play rapid games. We had the possibility to follow a brilliant duel between the two GMs and, furthermore, the homepage of the game - http://www.lekokramnyik.hu/ – was clicked by more than three and half million users. Kramnik won the third and fifth games, Lékó could nevertheless close up in the sixth, however, the Russian GM won the duel by 4,5-3,5.

Both players were satisfied with the level of the games, Kramnik was happy about winning the game which he described as fight of equal forces. The brilliant contest, nonetheless has proved the fact that the ability of significantly faster decision-making is required from the Grand Masters as far as the rapid stroke is concerned, since they have much less time to evaluate the positions. Intuition and creativity claim therefore an increased role.

After the great champions Péter Lékó is facing the pretender, Magnus Carlson this year. Just as Lékó but ten years after, the Norwegian Wunderkind, who is also known as Mozart of the Chess, was the youngest GM in the world.

At the age of fifteen he became world champion candidate and finished the last year’s World Cup on the third place. In the first super competition of the year, in Wijk aan Zee, he fascinated the chess world with his dead-heat first place. Afterwards he repeated his success in Linares by finishing on the second place left behind exclusively by Viswanathan Anand.

Lékó and Carlsen met for the first time beside the chess board at the Tal Memorial Competiton in Moscow, 2006 where they played draw. After that they have played eleven games. Beside 7 draws Lékó won in last year’s Morelia/Linares, the Corus competition in January and, finally, in this year’s Linares tournament.

In rapid style the have played 1-1 so far, they finished by draw at the rapid world Championship in Moscow.

In accordance with the Ranking List of January 2008, Lékó occupies the eighth place with ÉLŐ-points of 2753 while Carlsen has the thirteenth place with 2733 points.

Special thanks to Mr. Carsten Hensel for sending us the news.

Sunday, April 29, 2007

It's over! Kramnik defeated Leko 4.5 - 3.5!

Game 8 final position

Leko - Kramnik [C77]
Leko - Kramnik Miskolc, Hungary, 29.04.2007

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3 b5 6.Bb3 Bc5 7.0-0 d6 8.c3 h6 9.a4 Rb8 10.d4 Bb6 11.Na3 0-0 12.axb5 axb5 13.Nxb5 Bg4 14.Be3 d5 15.exd5 Nxd5 16.h3 Bh5 17.g4 Bg6 18.Na3 exd4 19.cxd4 Be4 20.Bc2 Bxf3 21.Qxf3 Nxd4 22.Bxd4 Bxd4 23.Rad1 c5 24.Nb5 Rxb5 25.Qd3 g6 26.Qxb5 Nf4 27.Qc6 Nxh3+ 28.Kg2 Nf4+ 29.Kf3 Ne6 30.Ke4 Game drawn 1/2-1/2

The match ended in a 4.5 - 3.5 win for Kramnik! Congratulations to Kramnik! Now he will be off to play another match against Aronian in Armenia.

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Kramnik 4 - Leko 3 with 1 to go

Final position of game 7

Vladimir Kramnik - Peter Leko [D43]
Leko - Kramnik Miskolc, Hungary, 29.04.2007

1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 c6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bxf6 Qxf6 7.Qc2 dxc4 8.e3 b5 9.a4 Bb7 10.axb5 cxb5 11.Nxb5 Bb4+ 12.Nc3 0-0 13.Be2 Rc8 14.0-0 Nd7 15.Rfc1 a5 16.Na4 Rab8 17.Qd1 e5 18.Rxc4 Rxc4 19.Bxc4 Bxf3 20.Qxf3 Qxf3 21.gxf3 exd4 22.exd4 Nb6 23.Nxb6 Rxb6 24.Rd1 Kf8 25.b3 Rg6+ 26.Kf1 Rg5 27.Rd3 Rh5 28.Kg2 Rg5+ 29.Kf1 Rh5 30.Kg2 Rg5+ Game drawn 1/2-1/2

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The final showdown

The last 2 games of the Kramnik - Leko rapid match will take place today. Kramnik is leading 3.5 - 2.5. Can Leko pull even by scoring 1.5 out of 2 today or will he go down quietly? What is your prediction?

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Kramnik, Leko split a pair

Kramnik - Leko Rapid Match

Game 5

Kramnik - Leko [A30]
Leko - Kramnik Miskolc, Hungary, 28.04.2007

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.d4 cxd4 6.Nxd4 dxc4 7.Nxc6 Qxd1+ 8.Nxd1 bxc6 9.Bg2 Nd5 10.Ne3 e6 11.Nxc4 Ba6 12.b3 Bb4+ 13.Bd2 Bxd2+ 14.Nxd2 Nb4 15.Kd1 0-0-0 16.a3 Nd5 17.Rc1 Kb7 18.Ke1 e5 19.e3 Kb6 20.Bf1 Bb5 21.Bc4 f6 22.Ke2 Rd7 23.Rc2 a5 24.Rhc1 Ne7 25.Bxb5 cxb5 26.a4 Rhd8 27.axb5 Kxb5 28.Ne4 Ra7 29.g4 h6 30.h4 Kb6 31.g5 hxg5 32.hxg5 fxg5 33.Rg1 Rc8 34.Rd2 Nc6 35.Rxg5 a4 36.bxa4 Rxa4 37.Nd6 Rc7 38.Ne8 Rca7 39.Nxg7 Ra2 40.Rxa2 Rxa2+ 41.Kf3 Kc5 42.Nf5 Nb4 43.Ng3 Kd5 44.Ne4 Ra8 45.Nf6+ Ke6 46.Ng4 Nd3 47.Rg6+ Kf5 48.Rf6+ Kg5 49.Rd6 Rf8+ 50.Kg3 e4 51.Rd5+ Rf5 52.f4+ Kg6 53.Rd4 Nc5 54.Ne5+ Kg7 55.Rc4 Nd3 56.Nxd3 exd3 57.Rd4 White wins 1-0

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Game 6

Leko - Kramnik [C84]
Leko - Kramnik Miskolc, Hungary, 28.04.2007

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.d3 b5 7.Bb3 d6 8.a4 Bd7 9.Nc3 Na5 10.Ba2 b4 11.Ne2 c5 12.Ng3 0-0 13.Nh4 g6 14.Bh6 Re8 15.Bd2 Bg4 16.f3 Be6 17.Bxe6 fxe6 18.f4 exf4 19.Bxf4 Nc6 20.Nf3 Nd7 21.c3 bxc3 22.bxc3 Nde5 23.Bxe5 dxe5 24.Qc2 Ra7 25.Rfd1 Bf8 26.Nf1 Bh6 27.N1d2 Bxd2 28.Rxd2 Rd7 29.Rb1 Kg7 30.h3 Qc7 31.Rf1 Nd8 32.Rdf2 Qd6 33.Qc1 Nf7 34.Nh2 h5 35.Qe3 Ree7 36.Rf3 c4 37.dxc4 Qd2 38.Qb6 Ng5 39.Re3 Rf7 40.h4 Rb7 41.Qc5 Rb2 42.Qxe5+ Kh7 43.Qxg5 Rxf1+ 44.Nxf1 Qf2+ 45.Kh2 Qxf1 46.Rg3 Qf7 47.c5 Re2 48.Qe5 Qb7 49.Rxg6 White wins 1-0

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The score now is 3.5-2.5 in favor of Kramnik with 2 wins, 1 loss and 3 draws. Game 7 and 8 will be tomorrow.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Kramnik - Leko | 2 draws in day 1

The first day came to an end with 2 draws between Leko and Kramnik. Here are the games:

Game 1:

GM Kramnik - GM Leko [A33]
Leko - Kramnik Miskolc, Hungary, 25.04.2007

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 e6 6.Bg5 Be7 7.e3 Qa5 8.Bh4 Ne4 9.Bxe7 Nxc3 10.Qd2 Nxe7 11.Nb5 0-0 12.Qxc3 Qxc3+ 13.Nxc3 b6 14.0-0-0 Rd8 15.Be2 Bb7 16.e4 f5 17.exf5 Nxf5 18.Rhg1 Rac8 19.Rd2 Kf8 20.g3 Ke7 21.Re1 Nd6 22.b3 b5 23.Red1 Ne4 24.Nxe4 Bxe4 25.Kb2 Game drawn 1/2-1/2

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Game 2:

GM Leko - GM Kramnik [C88]
Leko - Kramnik Miskolc, Hungary, 25.04.2007

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.h3 Bb7 9.d3 d6 10.a3 Na5 11.Ba2 c5 12.Nbd2 Nc6 13.Nf1 Bc8 14.Ne3 Be6 15.Nd5 Bxd5 16.exd5 Nd4 17.Nd2 Nf5 18.Ne4 Nd7 19.g3 g6 20.h4 Rc8 21.b4 Qb6 22.h5 cxb4 23.axb4 Nf6 24.c3 Ng7 25.h6 Nge8 26.Bd2 Nxe4 27.dxe4 f5 28.exf5 Rxf5 29.Be3 Qb7 30.Rc1 Bd8 31.c4 bxc4 32.Bxc4 Qxb4 33.Rb1 Qxc4 34.Rc1 Qxc1 35.Bxc1 Bb6 36.Be3 Bxe3 37.Rxe3 Nf6 38.Qa4 e4 39.Qxa6 Rc1+ 40.Kg2 Rc2 41.Re2 Rxe2 42.Qxe2 Rxd5 43.Qc4 Kf7 44.Qc7+ Ke6 45.Qc8+ Ke7 46.Kf1 Rc5 47.Qb7+ Ke6 48.Ke2 Rf5 49.Qc8+ Ke7 50.Qc7+ Ke6 51.Qc8+ Game drawn 1/2-1/2

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Here is the official website.

Peter Leko Chess School

The Peter Leko Chess School officially opened in Miskolc, Hungary. ChessBase has a full report here.

Monday, April 23, 2007

Kramnik versus Leko in Hungary

Peter Leko will play a rapid match against World Champion Vladimir Kramnik from April 24-29 at National Theater of Miskolc, Hungary.

This time, it will be an 8 game rapid match.

In 2005, Leko drew Adams 4-4. In 2006, Leko defeated Karpov 4.5-3.5 with 7 draws and 1 win.

How will Leko do against Kramnik? Do you prefer to watch Fritz versus Junior or Leko versus Kramnik?

Here is the official website.

Friday, March 30, 2007

Leko vs. Kramnik II

Peter Leko will play a rapid match against World Champion Vladimir Kramnik from April 24-29 at National Theater of Miskolc, Hungary. This time, it will be an 8 game rapid match.

In 2005, Leko drew Adams 4-4. In 2006, Leko defeated Karpov 4.5-3.5 with 7 draws and 1 win. How will Leko do against Kramnik?

Here is the official website.

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