Vladimir Kramnik
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Born
:25 Jun,1975
Age
:44 years, 2 months
Location
:Tuapse, Krasnodarskiy, Russia
About Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007. He has won three team gold medals and three individual medals at Chess Olympiads.
World Championship Matches and Qualifiers:
- PCA Quarterfinals, June 1994, New York, Kramnik–Gata Kamsky (1½–4½).
- FIDE Semifinals, August 1994 Sanghi Nagar, Kramnik–Boris Gelfand (3½–4½).
- Classical WCC Candidates Match, 1998, Cazorla, Kramnik–Alexei Shirov (3½–5½).
- FIDE WCC Knockout Quarterfinals, July 1999, Las Vegas, Kramnik–Michael Adams (2–4, including rapid playoff).
- Classical World Chess Championship 2000, London, Kramnik–Garry Kasparov (8½–6½)
- Classical World Chess Championship 2004, Brissago, Kramnik–Péter Lékó (7–7), Kramnik retains.
- FIDE World Chess Championship 2006, Elista, Kramnik–Topalov (6–6, 2½–1½ rapid playoff), Kramnik unifies the title
- FIDE World Chess Championship 2007 Runner up, Mexico City (loses the title to Anand, joint second Gelfand).
- World Chess Championship 2008, Bonn, Kramnik–Anand (4½–6½), Anand retains
- World Chess Championship 2012 Candidates Match Quarterfinals, April 2011, Kazan, Kramnik–Radjabov (2–2, 2–2 rapid playoff, 2½–1½ blitz playoff), Kramnik advances
- World Chess Championship 2012 Candidates Match Semifinals, April 2011, Kazan, Kramnik–Grischuk (2–2, 2–2 rapid playoff, ½–1½ blitz playoff), Kramnik eliminated
- World Chess Championship 2013 Runner-up, Candidates Tournament, March–April 2013, London, +4?1=9
- World Chess Championship 2014 Third place, Candidates Tournament, Khanty-Mansiysk, +3-3=8
World Cup:
The FIDE World Cup is a knockout, starting with 128 players, with two games (90 min for 40 moves + 30 min for the rest, with 30 seconds increment) between pairs of players. The tiebreaks consist of two rapid games (25 min + 10 sec), then two accelerated games (10 min + 10 sec), and finally an Armageddon. The winner and the runner-up of the World Cup 2013 will qualify for the Candidates Tournament of the next World Championship cycle.
Outstanding Results:
Kramnik went all the way to the semifinals of the World Champìonship cycle. Unfortunately, there he lost to Grischuk in the blitz tiebreaks, after their matches at both classical and rapid time formats had finished in a tie.
In July 2011 Kramnik was superb once again in Dortmund, Category 20 (2731), taking clear first with 7/10, a rating performance of 2868. In November he also won Hoogeveen, Category 20 (2732) with 4.5/6, unbeaten, this time an ever higher rating performance of 2903.
Up next came London, starting on December 3rd, where he made his best performance of the year by winning the stronger Category 20 event (2748) with 6/8, unbeaten, rising his rating performance to 2932 and more importantly ahead of his main adversaries, Magnus Carlsen, Wiswanathan Anand and Levon Aronian.
Career Highlights:
- 14th Classical World Chess Champion.
- Three-time Olympiad winner as a member of the Russian team.
- Russian Honoured Master of Sport.
- Three-time winner in World Championship Matches
- World Chess Champion 2000-2007
- Current ELO rating: 2794
Vladimir Kramnik Achievements
Notable tournament victories:
- 1990 Russian Championship, Kuibyshev (classical) I
- 1991 World Championship (U18), Guarapuava (classical) I
- 1992 Chalkidiki (classical) 7½/11 I
- 1994 Overall result PCA Intel Grand Prix'94 I
- 1995 Dortmund (classical) 7/9 I
- 1995 Horgen (classical) 7/10 I–II
- 1995 Belgrade (classical) 8/11 I–II
- 1996 Monaco 16/22 I
- 1996 Dos Hermanas (classical) 6/9 I–II
- 1996 Dortmund (classical) 7/9 I–II
- 1997 Dos Hermanas (classical) 6/9 I–II
- 1997 Dortmund (classical) 6½/9 I
- 1997 Tilburg (classical) 8/11 I–III
- 1998 Wijk aan Zee (classical) 8½/13 I–II
- 1998 Dortmund (classical) 6/9 I–III
- 1998 Monaco (blindfold and rapidplay) 15/22 I
- 1999 Monaco (blindfold and rapidplay) 14½/22 I
- 2000 Linares (classical) 6/10 I–II
- 2000 Dortmund (classical) 6/9 I–II
- 2001 Match Kramnik vs. Leko (rapidplay) 7–5
- 2001 Match Botvinnik memorial Kramnik vs. Kasparov (classical) 2–2
- 2001 Match Botvinnik memorial Kramnik vs Kasparov (rapidplay) 3–3
- 2001 Monaco (blindfold and rapidplay) 15/22 I–II
- 2001 Match Kramnik vs. Anand (rapidplay) 5–5
- 2001 Dortmund (classical) 6½/10 I–II
- 2002 Match Advanced Chess Kramnik vs. Anand (León) 3½–2½
- 2003 Linares (classical) 7/12 I–II
- 2003 Cap d'Agde (France)
- 2004 Handicap Simul (classical)
- 2004 Kramnik vs. National Team of Germany 2½–1½
- 2004 Linares (classical) 7/12 I
- 2004 Monaco (overall result) 14½/22 I–II
- 2006 Gold medal at Turin Olympiad with overall best performance (2847) 7/10
- 2006 Dortmund (classical) 4½/7 I
- 2007 Monaco (blindfold and rapidplay) 15½/22 I
- 2007 Dortmund (classical) 5/7 I
- 2007 Tal Memorial 6½/9 I
- 2009 Dortmund 6½/9 I
- 2009 Zürich (rapidplay) 5/7 I
- 2009 Tal Memorial 6/9 I
- 2010 President's Cup in Baku (rapidplay) 5/7 I–III
- 2010 Bilbao Grand Slam final 4/6 I
- 2011 Dortmund 7/10 I
- 2011 Hoogeveen 4½/6 I
- 2011 London Chess Classic 6/8 I
- 2013 Chess World Cup 2013
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