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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.
In a public plea, Armenian chess grandmaster Levon Aronian has urged Vladimir Kramnik, a former World Champion, to reconcile ...
Garry Kasparov's 15-year reign over world chess has been ended by his former pupil Vladimir Kramnik in the world chess championships.
May 4, 2001 Position #5636: Black to play and win. From the game Svidler--Korchnoi, Zurich 2001.
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 ...
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… ...
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 had to settle for a draw with Vladimir Kramnik in Tuesday’s Game 14 of the world chess championship, leaving the way open for the challenger to take the title Kasparov has held ...
Another former world champion, Vladimir Kramnik, who defeated Kasparov for the title in 2000, noted in a 2015 interview that he was in his mid-20s at the time. “In fact, chess is a game for the ...