Chess: Adams beats Kramnik
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Your support makes all the difference.'YOU are old, Michael Adams,' young Kramnik said, 'and your play is exceedingly passive. And yet you incessantly win every game, for your counter-attacking is massive.'
Vladimir Kramnik, 18, ranked third in the world, came badly unstuck against England's Michael Adams, 21, in the Interzonal tournament in Biel, Switzerland. This brought Adams his fifth win in a row and fine chances of winning a place among next year's world title candidates.
The game was a perfect example of Adams's patient technique of luring an opponent forward to self-destruct. Against his come-and-get-me style, White stood better until 24 . . . Nh5 - Black's first move beyond the third rank for a long time - provoked him into a premature pawn advance.
With 25 . . . Nxf4] Adams equalised, and as the position became more open Kramnik lost control. When Black's queen invaded the empty spaces behind White's advanced pawns, it was all over.
White: Kramnik Black: Adams
1 Nf3 Nf6
2 c4 b6
3 g3 c5
4 Bg2 Bb7
5 0-0 g6
6 Nc3 Bg7
7 d4 cxd4
8 Qxd4 0-0
9 Qh4 d6
10 Bh6 Nbd7
11 b3 Rc8
12 Bxg7 Kxg7
13 Qd4 Kg8
14 Rac1 Rc5
15 b4 Rc8
16 a3 Re8
17 e4 Qc7
18 Nd5 Qb8
19 Bh3 Rcd8
20 Nd2 Ba8
21 Bg2 a6
22 Nb3 Rc8
23 f4 Rcd8
24 Kh1 Nh5
25 g4 Nxf4
26 Nxf4 e5
27 Qf2 exf4
28 Qxf4 Ne5
29 Rc3 Qc7
30 Nd2 Qe7
31 g5 Rc8
32 Rfc1 b5
33 h4 Bb7
34 Kh2 Rc6
35 cxb5 axb5
36 Bf1 Rec8
37 Rxc6 Rxc6
38 Rxc6 Bxc6
39 Nb3 Qa7
40 Na5 Bd7
41 Be2 Qd4
42 Kg2 Qb2
43 Qf2 Qxa3
44 Qf6 Qh3+
45 Kf2 Qxh4+
46 Ke3 h5
47 Nb7 Qe1
White resigns.
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