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Anyone of you who watched the 3th game may be surprisez today but Anand and Kramnik moved in the same line today. And the result of the game was also the same - another win for the Indian!
Anand used his novelty that he introduced in Slav Defence — a system in which the player playing with black pieces gets to develop his queen well and wins a pawn without compromising his position. Vishwanatan used this system very well and also introduced a new move that gave him a slight advantage. Though Kramnik tried to fight back, he played wrong moves that weakened his defence.
After today 5th round the score is 3,5 to 1,5 for Anand.
Round 5 Video: WCC Match 2008 Round 5 in Bonn: Kramnik - Anand 0-1

The 1st World Mind Sports Games 2008 takes place in Beijing (China) from 3rd-18th October 2008. The event combines a few sports in one event, which is similar to the coming The Chess Olympiad 2008 in Dresden. The mind sports are: Bridge, Chess, Go, Draughts and Xiangqi.

In the individual tournaments of chess sport the winners are as follows...

The World Chess Championship Match 2008 (WCC Match 2008) between current World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand and the former one Vladimir Kramnik takes place in Bonn (Germany) from 14th October to 02th November 2008.

In the game 4, Anand had white in the Queen Gambit Declined. This game was calmer compared to game 3, which was really impressive. Kramnik equalized on move 27. The game finished in a draw on move 29.

Commentary by Malcolm Pein of game 4 is available on the TWIC site.

In such a fantastic board battle Indian Viswanatan Anand won against Russian Vladimir Kramnik. Two titans have been playing in a Queen Gambit Meran game for 41 moves.
Thanks to his attacking style current World Chess Champion Anand had add a lot of new fans today.
Nobody knows what we can expect tomorrow...
Our flash chat is a field of many interesting comments of your side. A lot of thanks to Fergus, George, Karl, chess4all and all others who enjoy the game together!
Round 3 Video: WCC Match 2008 in Bonn: Anand won against Kramnik in Round 3

Update 2008-12: Aeroflot Open 2009 in Moscow!

We received many requests asking information about Aeroflot Open 2009 tournament. This is the reason for this post, trying to help you all in finding information about this tournament.

There is no published data about Aeroflot Open 2009 on the official site. We hope that in the next 2 months the situation will change. At the moment there is no other information that Aeroflot Open 2009 event will be held... For further information...

In an interesting second game Indian GM Viswanatan Anand and Russian one Vladimir Kramnik sign the draw in 32 move.
It was Keres-Romanovsky variation of Nimtzo-Indian where with two bishops and an extra pawn Anand was in better position but Kramnik succeed to safe.
Tomorrow is a rest day of the event.

First game in World Chess Championship Match between Vishwanatan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik was a Draw in 32 moves.
It was solid Slav Defence Exchange variation game where in the middle Indian had an open C file in return for the sacrificed pawn. This and the opposite coloured bishops tells us the final result in the game.
Tommorow is the second game where Anand will play with white pieces.
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2008 Anand - Kramnik

Here we will make a list of sites, which have Live transmission of the Anand-Kramnik games of the WCC 2008 in Bonn.

If you have any problems with the live games or we missed any site with live transmission of WCC Kramnik-Anand 2008, please contact us.

Update: Kramnik starts with the white pieces - Kramnik-Anand - game 1.
Games starts at 15.00 local time in Bonn!

On ChessFish the live games are available in our live chess games section. There are 3 applets to choose from: Anand-Kramnik live - Full list...

Anand and Kramnik have checked the playing venue two days before the start of the 1st game of the WCC Match 2008 in Bonn. They chose the chairs and a chess set for the match. Big photo gallery...

The World Chess Championship Match 2008 (WCC Match 2008) between current World Chess Champion Viswanathan Anand and the former one Vladimir Kramnik is going to take place in Bonn (Germany) from 14th October to 02th November 2008.

Update 2008-10-12: The opening ceremony is going to start in a few hours in Bonn, Germany. We are here for updates. WCC 2008 will be transmitted live in our live chess games section »»»


12 games will be played. Full match schedule, Regulations...