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After yesterday’s six and a half hour game and Peter Leko’s victory against classical chess world champion Vladimir Kramnik, the sixth game at the Centro Dannemann today ended in a 20-move draw.
Vladimir Kramnik vs Peter Leko: the start of game six
Kramnik repeated the Spanish Opening, but his Hungarian challenger came up with a new and powerful idea: 14…d5, offering a pawn sacrifice. Kramnik decided not to take the risk and choses a solid reply 15.Bg5, hoping to get some initiative on the kingside. But after c5-c4 his bishop on a2 started to look bad. It took the world champion some time to bring the bishop back into the game.
Projection of the players on giant plasma screens for VIP visitors
Meanwhile Leko had stabilized his position on the kingside. When he offered a draw, Kramnik could hardly refuse: Black was already slightly better.
| Vladimir Kramnik | |||||||||||||||
| Peter Leko |
(6) Kramnik,V (2770) - Leko,P (2741) [C88]
WCh Brissago SUI (6), 03.10.2004
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0–0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0–0
8.h3 Bb7 9.d3 d6 10.a3 Na5 11.Ba2 c5 12.Nbd2 Nc6 13.c3 Qd7 14.Nf1 d5 15.Bg5
dxe4 16.dxe4 c4 17.Ne3 Rfd8 18.Nf5 Qe6 19.Qe2 Bf8 20.Bb1 h6 ½–½.
The match commentators GMs Artur Jussupow and Helmut Pfleger don't
seem to be enjoying this game in their sound-proof cabin at the back of the
playing hall
Super-model Carmen
Kass with the head of Dannemann Brazil Hans Leusen.
Carmen is the head of the Estonian Chess Federation and genuinely interested
in the game
The chess playing super-model who lives in New York
After the game, as always, there was a live video coverage of the press
conference on Playchess.com.
Jussupow and Pfleger went through the game, answering the questions
of spectators
Rolf Behovits
Press Officer World Chess Championship
CENTRO DANNEMANN
Via Ruggero Leoncavallo
CH-6614 Brissago
rbehovits@chessgate.de
