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[Event "World Championship Mexico"]
[Site "Mexico"]
[Date "2007.09.15"]
[Round "2"]
[White "GM Kramnik, Vladimir(RUS)"]
[Black "GM Morozevich, Alexander(RUS)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E04"]
[WhiteElo "2769"]
[BlackElo "2758"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "2007.09.14"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. d4 dxc4 5. Bg2 a6 6. Ne5 Bb4+ 7. Nc3 Nd5 8. O-O {Novelty}
O-O (8... Nxc3 9. bxc3 Bxc3 10. Rb1 Bxd4 (10... Qxd4 11. Qa4+ b5 12.
Qa3) 11. Nxc4 O-O 12. Ba3 Re8 13. Na5) 9. Qc2 b5 10. Nxd5 exd5 11. b3 c6 12. e4 f6


13. exd5 fxe5 14. bxc4 exd4 15. dxc6 Be6 16. cxb5 d3? (16... Ra7) 17. c7 Qd4? (17... Qd6 18. Qb2 +/-) 18. Qa4 Nd7 19. Be3 Qd6 20. Bxa8 Rxa8
21. Bf4 Qf8 22. b6 Ne5 23. Bxe5 Qf3 24. Qd1 Qe4 25. b7 Rf8 26. c8=Q Bd5 27. f3
1-0

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that's an incredible game from kramnik. I was expecting moro to do something crazy, then kramnik to suck all life from the position and wait for the mistake. but instead it came to this, wow!

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does anyone know how long until the Anand-Kramnik game today? ive missed the starts the last 2 rounds...

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nvm. started now... 1e4 e5

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I think Kramnik knows he cant play his usual 'safe' style chess to win this world championship - I predict we will get to see his attacking chess a little more then usual this time.

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This level of play is over my head anyway, but that looked pretty brutal... (2 queens?!) I thought at that level that they'd be fighting for equality, but that was far more interesting, yes? I'd expect something like that to happen to me, not a GM!

-J