Dortmund Sparkassen 2003
Round four by Chriss Lass
Today Kramnik and Anand decided to get an extra off day
due to the heat in Germany. But players in a
tournament need to play. So here is the solution by
two world champions: Take a game from 2000 that was
drawn back then, let's say from the Olympiad in
Istanbul, Turkey. Let's take one played by good players:
Topalov and Leko? OK. Now replay the game live on the
stage. To save extra time, dont replay all 87 moves
that Topalov and Leko played. Replay only 25 of them.
And perfect. Here is the draw. To be fair - looking
back at Anand's last two games - Vishy needs some
extra time. So let's allow the elite to relax today.
But again: I am pretty sure that draws are not enough
in this tournament.
Replay Kramnik - Anand 1/2
He is young and he is wild. He is hungry. And he plays
a furious attacking style during the Dortmund
tournament this year. The kid that has already beaten
Anand two days ago was trying hard to crush Arkadi
Najditch. With all weapons involved he pushed forward
two central pawns and even thought - 'hey, the
position is even worth a rook'. But Arkadi just waited
and defended patiently. Then Teimour started checking
on the white king but that only allowed Arkadi to eat
one of the passers in the middle of the board. So
Radjabov resigned. But still - I do love his
aggressive playing style. Go on Teimour. Don't loose
faith.
Replay Naiditsch - Radjabov 1-0
Today Viorel Bologan showed once more that he is not
on holidays in Dortmund. And he proved that his
opening repertoire is huge. Today he decided to defend
with the Caro-Kann. Did I just say defend? Oh. no.
It's Bologan - the tiger. In a wonderful game he was
able to make good use of all mistakes that happend on
the board. Last years Dortmund winner Leko had to
resign after 5 hours and 46 moves. He now takes the
lead with 3.5 incredible points after round four. Who
can stop Bologan? Who can stop the tiger? Can't
Kasparov and Topalov late-join?
Replay Leko - Bologan 0-1
Analysis by GM Boris Alterman and Jason Doss
If you ever visited a chess tournament, then you know
that they are always selling books. Chess books of all
topics everywhere. Dortmund is not different and so
you can inspect and buy even the latest opening
training book - animation and video included on DVD.
Today a new book hit Germany's book stores. It the
long awaited book by Martin Breutigam: "64 months on
64 squares". It covers columns, reports and master
games from 1997 - 2002. Even Peter Leko contributed to
this book. It's in German language, but the editor
thinks about an English translation. As you can see on
todays off-stage picture, the author was present
himself at the tournament. You can win the signed copy
he is holding in his hands if you listen closely to
Chess.FM during the next days.
Click back tomorrow & CU online.
| | | Standings after round 4 |
| 1 | 3.5 | GM Viorel Bologan(Moldova 2650) | | 2 | 2.5 | GM Vladimir Kramnik(Russia 2785) |
| 3 | 2.0 | GM Arkadij Naiditsch(Germany 2574) |
| 4-5 | 1.5 | GM Peter Leko(Hungary 2739) |
| | | GM Teimour Radjabov(Azerbaijan 2648) |
| 6 | 1.0 | GM Viswanathan Anand(India 2774) |
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