Dortmund 2001
Kramnik's Sixth Title
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By Arvind Aaron
Braingames world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik won the 29th Sparkassen
Chess Meeting on better tie-break score than Veselin Topalov. Like in the
Amber Tournament, Topalov was impressive but was the runner up on the same
6.5/10 score.
Leko had a low plus one score for third place. Anand had one of
his career low when he lost four games and drew six and went without a
victory. It was a category 21 tournament, the strongest ever outside Spain.
Anand was tired, out of preparation and in general bad form. "I was shaky"
he said in Mainz and this trend continued here.
In two other exhibition matches, Robert Huebner drew Fritz6 3-3
by drawing all six games. In another match, Arkadi Naiditch of Dortmund
beat Almira Lautier of Moldova 7-3 in the best of 10 series.
The final table:
1. V.Kramnik RUS XX 1= == 1= == =1
6.5
2. V.Topalov BUL 0= XX == 11 == 11
6.5
3. P.Leko HUN == == XX
== 1= == 5.5
4. A.Morozevich RUS 0= 00 == XX 11 =1 5.0
5. M.Adams ENG == == 0= 00
XX == 3.5
6. V.Anand IND =0 00 == =1
== XX 3.5
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