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Sparkassen Chess-Meeting Dortmund 2012 (2)
Kramnik, Ponomariov and Karjakin all winners on Dortmund day 2
Mark Crowther - Saturday 14th July 2012
Jan Gustafsson was beaten by Vladimir Kramnik in a spectacular game. Photo © Georgios Souleidis | http://www.sparkassen-chess-meeting.de/2012/
The 2nd round of the Sparkassen Chess-Meeting on Saturday saw a number of surprises. Vladimir Kramnik shocked everyone including no doubt his opponent Jan Gustafsson by playing the King's Indian Defence as black. Known as a killer of the opening as white he produced a spectacular effort with one blow after another following his excellent 17...Nc6. There has been no more active player in the elite recently than Fabiano Caruana but the first two rounds of Dortmund suggest he may be close to being out of gas. Today he misjudged something just out of the opening because his position was very close to being lost after 21...c4. Ponomariov finished things nicely. Mateusz Bartel didn't get out of the opening intact for the second day running and Sergey Karjakin looked comfortable in refuting his tactical ideas. Naiditsch looked worse after turing down (21. Bxf6 gxf6 22. Qg4 probably equal) but Meier was happy enough with the draw. Leko equalised easily as black against Fridman but no more than that.
Jan Gustafsson 0-1 Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Kramnik
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Jan Gustafsson
Position after 17...Nc6!
18. Nc2 Rxe3 19. Nxe3! Nb4 20. Rc4 Nxa2 21. Ra4 Rxa4 22. bxa4 Bd4 23. Kf2 Nb4 24. Rc1 a2! 25. Rxc8+ Kg7 26. Rc1 Nxd5 27. Rd1 Nxe3 0-1
| 40th GM Dortmund (GER), 12-22 vii 2012 | cat. XIX (2711) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 0 | ||||||||||
| 1. | Kramnik, Vladimir | g | RUS | 2799 | * | . | ½ | . | . | . | . | 1 | . | . | 1½ | 2897 | |||
| 2. | Ponomariov, Ruslan | g | UKR | 2726 | . | * | . | . | ½ | . | . | . | 1 | . | 1½ | 2945 | |||
| 3. | Karjakin, Sergey | g | RUS | 2779 | ½ | . | * | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 1½ | 2929 | |||
| 4. | Meier, Georg | g | GER | 2644 | . | . | . | * | . | ½ | . | . | . | 1 | 1½ | 2880 | |||
| 5. | Leko, Peter | g | HUN | 2730 | . | ½ | . | . | * | . | ½ | . | . | . | 1 | 2690 | |||
| 6. | Naiditsch, Arkadij | g | GER | 2700 | . | . | . | ½ | . | * | . | . | ½ | . | 1 | 2709 | |||
| 7. | Fridman, Daniel | g | GER | 2655 | . | . | . | . | ½ | . | * | ½ | . | . | 1 | 2679 | |||
| 8. | Gustafsson, Jan | g | GER | 2629 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | ½ | * | . | . | ½ | 2534 | |||
| 9. | Caruana, Fabiano | g | ITA | 2775 | . | 0 | . | . | . | ½ | . | . | * | . | ½ | 2520 | |||
| 10. | Bartel, Mateusz | g | POL | 2674 | . | . | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | . | * | 0 | ||||
| Round 2 (July 14, 2012) | ||||||
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| Ponomariov, Ruslan | - Caruana, Fabiano | 1-0 | 36 | B30 | Sicilian Rossolimo | |
| Naiditsch, Arkadij | - Meier, Georg | ½-½ | 53 | A30 | English Symmetrical | |
| Fridman, Daniel | - Leko, Peter | ½-½ | 27 | E06 | Catalan | |
| Gustafsson, Jan | - Kramnik, Vladimir | 0-1 | 27 | E92 | King's Indian Classical | |
| Bartel, Mateusz | - Karjakin, Sergey | 0-1 | 34 | A15 | English counter King's Fianchetto | |
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