Kramnik - 'The Teacher'
Kramnik's contribution to chess is immense. Even Anand has also acknowledged Kramnik's huge contribution to the theory. He won the World title by beating Kasparov, successfully defended it against Peter Leko in 2004 and beat Veselin Topalov in the title unification match in 2006. He lost the World title to Vishy Anand in 2007. Kramnik attributed Kasparov and Karpov as the players who were very important for his development in chess and he hopes that his games might help some players to improve and get to the top.
The great contributor Vladimir Kramnik | Photo: Amruta Mokal
"I think most of the top players are artist in their own way because I think you cannot get into the very top just being you know a kind of point-making-machine or money-cashing-machine."
Kramnik in his early days | Photo: Surya's stream
Kramnik-Kasparov at World Championship 2000 in London
"Our limits are much higher than we sometimes think"
How many World Champions can you identify in the above two photos?
Kramnik at the Microsense Kramnik Gelfand program in India last year
Kramnik's games
Here are the positions which were discussed in Episode 22
Kramnik - Kasparov, World Championship 2000
White to play
Kramnik - Short, Dortmund 1995
White to play
Kramnik - Giri, Dortmund 2011
White to play
Kramnik - Sokolov, Wijk aan Zee 2005
White to play
Kramnik - Aronian, Zurich 2015
White to play
Salem - Kramnik, Doha 2014
Black to play
Kramnik - Carlsen, Stavanger 2017
White to play
Kramnik - Vitiugov, Paris/Saint Petersburg 2013
Black to play
"Chess is a prophylactic game. It is much more important to understand what your opponent wants than to understand what you want."
Short - Kramnik, London 2011
Black to play
Kramnik - Karjakin, Monte Carlo 2011
White to play
Kramnik - Harikrishna, Shamkir 2017
White to play
Kramnik - Buhmann, Dortmund 2016
White to play
Replay the games
Episode 22
In Conversation with - Episode 22: Vladimir Kramnik - 'The Teacher' | Video: Surya Sekhar Ganguly
