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KRA NIK

my life & gam - es

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TEKENDAMA

by Vladimir Kramnik

& lakov Damsky

translated

and edited

by Ken Neat

EVERYMAN CHESS

Published by Everyman Publishers pic. London

First published in 2000 by Everyman Publishers pic, formerly Cadogan Books

pic, Gloucester Mansions, 140A Shatesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8D.

Reprinted 2000, 2001

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from te British Library.

ISBN 1 85744 2709

Distributed in Noth America by The Globe Pequot Press, P.O Box 480,246

Goose Lane, Guilford, CT 06437-0480

All other sales enquiries should be directed to Everyman Chess, Gloucester

Mansions, 140A Shatesbury Avenue, London WC2H 8D

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EVERYMAN CHESS SEIES (formerly Cadogan Chess)

Chief Advisor: Garry Kasparov

Advisory Panel: Byron Jacobs and Andrew Kinsman

Russian Series Editor: Ken Neat

Typeset by Ken Neat, Durham

Printed in Great Bitain by The Bath Press, Bath

Contents

Authors' Foreword

Acknowledgements

An Unusual Childhood

A Vertical Take-oT

The Spirit of the Time

Selected Games

126

Breakthrough

126

Attack

156

Positional Play

176

Complicated Battles

212

Victories in the Opening

244

From the Opening into the Endgame

254

Postscript

268

Vladimir Kramnik' s Career

269

Index of Opponents

27 1

Index of Openings

272

Authors' Foreword

The great satirists Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov explained in detail how to write a book

together. Alas. their experience as well as that of other 'ducts' - from the Goncourt

brothers to the Weiner brothers - was not used this time. There were no quarrels, no

arguments. and not even any drawing of lots, except that the author-grandmaster

resolutely crossed out the paragraphs in which the author-master tried to praise him

excessively ..

Iakvv Damsky wrote the biographical chapters of the book and the introductions to

those selected games where another author is not indicated.

Vladimir Kramnik annotated the selected games, analysed some of the other games

included. and the rest will be evident from the text.

The co-authors would like to hope and trust that the book will be enjoyed by chess

loving readers, and that it will be both useul and interesting to them.

Acknowledgements

The translator grateully acknowledges the assistance of:

Vladimir Krupchitsky. for the transmission of material from Moscow,

Olga Zabotkina. fo r resolving certain problems in translation, and

Andrew Kinsman. fo r proof-reading and additional editorial work.

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