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Subject: Re: Kramnik has fallen -- novelty?

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 04:24:21 01/17/05

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On January 17, 2005 at 02:57:13, Alan McCracken wrote:

>An excerpt off the ChessBase site:
>
>Most experts believed that Topalov's pawn offer should not have been accepted
>and that Kramnik's 12.Qxb4 was a fatal mistake. But the game really went
>downhill after 12...Bd7 13.Nb3 and a disheartened Kramnik resigned after
>13...Rb8 14.Qa3 Nxf3 15.h3 Nxe4 16.Be2 Ne5 17.Rhe1 Qc7 18.Bd4 Nc6 19.Bc3 d5
>20.Nbc5 Qa7 0-1. The last time something like this happened, as far as we know,
>was when an 18-year-old Kramnik lost rapid chess game with white against Elizbar
>Ubilava (Anand's second) 1992 in Oviedo.
>
>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2140
>
>It's hard to believe Kramnik forgot his mistake just over 12 years ago?!
>
>Terry

I don't understand your last sentence? Of course he did not repeat
the same mistake, they just compared similar game lengths...

Guenther

P.S. Why are you now Allan, Terry? ;)



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