Binding recapture i English opening | Kramnik - Socko | World blitz

Former world champion is more known for closed openings plays English opening this time. Kramnik in the beginning many times tries to be tricky and not show his intentions. He is best known for in debt analysis of various positions when their opponents don;t know much about. This time even though the position has been very quite Kramnik showed plan to an advantage and didn't spend many times on it. For instance on move 14 Kramnik captured with a pawn making his pawns doubled. According to engine this continuation is best by far.

Kramnik, Vladimir - Socko, Bartosz
World Blitz Championship 2019 round 14
1. c4 e5 2. d3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. a3 g6 5. b4 d6 6. Bb2 Bg7 7. g3 O-O 8. Bg2 a6 9. O-O Be6 10. Nc3 Qc8 11. Ng5 Bd7 12. Rc1 h6 13. Nge4 Nxe4 14. dxe4 Bh3 15. Nd5 Bxg2 16. Kxg2 Kh7 17. b5 Nd4 18. b6 c6 19. Nc7 Rb8 20. f4 c5 21. f5 gxf5 22. exf5 Qd7 23. f6 Bh8 24. Qd3+ Kg8 25. Nd5 Rfe8 26. Bxd4 exd4 27. Rf4 Re5 28. Rcf1 Rbe8 29. R1f2 R8e6 30. Qf3 Rg5 31. h4 Rg6 32. Ne7+ Rxe7 33. fxe7 Qxe7 34. Rxf7 Qe5 35. Rxb7 Bg7 36. Rb8+ Kh7 37. b7 d5 38. Rc8 Rb6 39. b8=Q Rxb8 40. Qd3+ 1-0

2019 King Salman World Rapid & Blitz Championships
Moscow, 2019

The English Opening is a chess opening that begins with the move:

1. c4

A flank opening, it is the fourth most popular and, according to various databases, anywhere from one of the two most successful to the fourth most successful of White's twenty possible first moves. White begins the fight for the centre by staking a claim to the d5-square from the wing, in hypermodern style. Although many lines of the English have a distinct character, the opening is often used as a transpositional device in much the same way as 1.Nf3 – to avoid such highly regarded responses to 1.d4 as the Nimzo-Indian and Grünfeld Defences, and is considered reliable and flexible.

The English derives its name from the English (unofficial) world champion Howard Staunton, who played it during his 1843 match with Saint-Amant and at London 1851, the first international tournament. It did not inspire Staunton's contemporaries and caught on only in the twentieth century. It is now recognised as a solid opening that may be used to reach both classical and hypermodern positions. Mikhail Botvinnik, Tigran Petrosian, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, and Magnus Carlsen employed it during their world championship matches. Bobby Fischer created a stir when he switched to it from his customary 1.e4 late in his career, employing it against Lev Polugaevsky and Oscar Panno at the Palma de Mallorca Interzonal in 1970, and in his world championship match against Boris Spassky.

Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Russian: Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is 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.[2]

In 2000, Kramnik defeated Garry Kasparov and became the Classical World Chess Champion. He defended his title in 2004 against Péter Lékó, and defeated the reigning FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov in a unification match in 2006. As a result, Kramnik became the first undisputed World Champion, holding both the FIDE and Classical titles, since Kasparov split from FIDE in 1993.

In 2007, Kramnik lost the title to Viswanathan Anand, who won the World Chess Championship 2007 tournament ahead of Kramnik. He challenged Anand at the World Chess Championship 2008 to regain his title, but lost. Nonetheless, he remained a top player; he reached a peak rating of 2817 in October 2016, which makes him the joint-eighth highest-rated player of all time.

Kramnik publicly announced his retirement as a professional chess player in January 2019. He stated he intends to focus on projects relating to chess for children and education.

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