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Kasparov leads Kramnik
By Our Chess Correspondent
MOSCOW, DEC. 8. World No.1 ranked Garry Kasparov leads Braingames world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik 4-3 after seven games in the Botvinnik Memorial chess being played here at the House of Columns on Friday.
In phase two of their 20-match series, three rapid games were played and Kramnik enjoyed playing white in two and Kasparov one. Kasparov won the fifth match game and drew the other two to lead by 4-3.
Earlier, the four classical chess games did not produce any spark and were drawn. Ten blitz games and three rapid games remain to be played in the 20-match assorted time control match.
In a flurry of tactical activity that followed move 24 of game five, Kasparov prevailed, winning two pieces for a rook to draw first blood in the match dominated by drawn encounters.
Having accepted the queen's gambit, Kasparov as black won the first rapid game to take a 3-2 lead in 54 moves with the black pieces.
In the sixth game, Kasparov as white faced the Nimzo- Indian defence from Kramnik and drew in 30 moves after reaching a level rook and minor piece ending.
In the last game of the day, Kasparov played the Slav defence with the black pieces and went into a pawn ending.
All Kramnik was able to drive was an extra pawn and in the king and pawn ending, Kasparov got the opposition to draw the game after 62 long moves for a highly beneficial day.
The moves: GM V.Kramnik-GM G.Kasparov, match game five, rapid chess, queen's gambit accepted, D27: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 e6 4.e3 a6 5.Bxc4 c5 6.0-0 Nf6 7.Bd3 b6 8.dxc5 Bxc5 9.a3 Bb7 10.Qe2 0-0 11.Nbd2 Nbd7 12.b4 Be7 13.Bb2 a5 14.bxa5 Rxa5 15.Bb5 Qb8 16.a4 Rc8 17.Rfc1 Ra7 18.Rxc8+ Qxc8 19.Rc1 Qa8 20.Nd4 Nc5 21.Nc4 Nd5 22.e4 Nf4 23.Qg4 Ng6 24.Nxb6 Qd8 25.Nc4 Nxa4 26.Bxa4 Rxa4 27.Qd1 Rb4 28.Ba3 Rxc4 29.Rxc4 Bxa3 30.Qb3 Ba6 31.Ra4 Bc5 32.Rxa6 Qxd4 33.Ra8+ Nf8 34.Qc2 g6 35.g3 Kg7 36.Kg2 e5 37.Ra4 Qd6 38.Qc4 Ne6 39.Qd5 Qb8 40.Ra8 Qb2 41.Ra2 Qc3 42.Qd2 Qb3 43.Qd5 Qb8 44.Ra8 Qc7 45.Ra6 Bd4 46.Qc6 Qe7 47.Ra8 Qf6 48.Qc2 Ng5 49.Ra3 Qe6 50.h4 Qh3+ 51.Kg1 Ne6 52.Rb3 Qg4 53.Qd3 Nc5 54.Qf3 Qxf3 0-1.
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