Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnikis a Russian chess Grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007. He has won three team gold medals and three individual medals at Chess Olympiads...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionChess Player
Date of Birth25 June 1975
CountryRussian Federation
thinking games champion
Part of my preparation for the World Champion match against Kasparov was to be ready for his off-board tactics. I did not to react to them at all. Once you start thinking about these things during the game, even analysing them, you're caught.
play games faults
Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
fighting equality games
Okay, when you start to fight for equality, like Anand did in 1995, you could end up losing game 10, like he did, without putting up any kind of fight.
games personality depth
Only he, who penetrates into the depth of the game, can express his personality in it.
games calm
No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.
children games play
When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play.
games one-direction trying
Once he had selected the path he was going down he really had to stick with it in a 16 game match. He had to try and hit in the one direction but unfortunately for him - though fortunately for me! - he hit in the wrong direction.
practice games ideas
Every month I look through some ten thousand games, so not as to miss any new ideas and trends.
games chess subjectivity
When I speak of the beauty of a game of chess, then naturally this is subjective. Beauty can be found in a very technical, mathematical game for example. That is the beauty of clarity.
play games chess
Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
book practice games
My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.
player games chess
In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this.
games play style
I don't know whether computers are improving the style of play, I know they are changing it. Chess has become a different game, one could say that computers have changed the world of chess. That is pretty clear.
afraid fantastic great players tend wrong
Don't get me wrong here - Kasparov is a great player, fantastic player. But most of the players tend to be afraid of him when they shouldn't.