Kramnik is the Champion of the 3rd Grand Slam Masters Final

Vladimir Kramnik has emerged the Champion of the 3rd Grand Slam Chess Masters Final played in Bilbao from October 9th to 15th. He now joins 2008 winner Veselin Topalov and last year’s winner Levon Aronian on the list of winners of this tournament.


In the first match, tournament leader Vladimir Kramnik should have defended the black pieces agaist Alexei Shirov, a rival who usually chokes. The game followed the same course as the one they played in the preliminary round in Shanghai, a quick f3 variation of the Nizmo-Indian defence. On this occasion, Kramnik departed from the previous game, opting for a calmer variation. The game developed around the
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