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Kramnik spends plenty of his time now on a crusade to weed out cheating in online chess, a campaign that's earned him plenty ...
With two rounds remaining, Kramnik leads with a score of 6-2. Kasparov has 5 1/2-2 1/2. The tournament features three other grandmasters ranked among the world’s top 10.
LONDON, Nov. 2 -- Russia's Vladimir Kramnik, a lean and hungry 25-year-old known as "Supernerd," became the new world champion of chess tonight in a stunning upset of Garry Kasparov, the ...
May 4, 2001 Position #5636: Black to play and win. From the game Svidler--Korchnoi, Zurich 2001.
In a public plea, Armenian chess grandmaster Levon Aronian has urged Vladimir Kramnik, a former World Champion, to reconcile ...
L O N D O N, Nov. 3 -- A winning streak that began when Ronald Reagan was president and there was still a Soviet Union ended Thursday. Garry Kasparov’s 15-year reign as king of world chess ended ...
Vladimir Kramnik To Face World's Top Chess Program, Deep Fritz. ... Many saw Kasparov's 1997 defeat by IBM's Deep Blue as a watershed in the short history of computer science — raw ...
Garry Kasparov's 15-year reign over world chess has been ended by his former pupil Vladimir Kramnik in the world chess championships.
Like Kasparov, Kramnik learned to play chess when he was only four years old. His rise to fame was meteoric, with the chess prodigy becoming champion of the small southern Soviet town of Tuapse at ...
Garry Kasparov’s 15-year reign as world chess champ ended with a whimper yesterday when he conceded defeat in a best-of-16-games match in London against his protégé, Vladimir Kramnik. Kasparo… ...