[Event "World-ch Anand-Kramnik +3-1=8"] [Site "Bonn"] [Date "2008.10.17"] [Round "3"] [White "Kramnik, Vladimir"] [Black "Anand, Viswanathan"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "D49"] [WhiteElo "2772"] [BlackElo "2783"] [Annotator "Hartmann,John"] [PlyCount "82"] [EventDate "2008.10.14"] [EventType "match"] [EventRounds "11"] [EventCountry "GER"] [SourceTitle "CBM 127"] [Source "ChessBase"] [SourceDate "2008.11.13"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2008.11.13"] [SourceQuality "1"] {[%evp 0,82,27,19,20,-10,42,35,31,8,52,34,43,47,38,43,18,24,31,-29,-22,-39,-31, -19,-24,-16,-3,-34,-54,-50,-1,-24,0,0,0,0,0,0,10,-45,0,0,0,0,0,0,-26,-26,-26, -25,-25,0,0,0,-31,0,0,-1,0,-187,-192,-192,-136,-139,-117,-99,-96,-1807,-358, -363,-378,-543,-536,-553,-524,-932,-951,-977,-978,-1407,-1410,-1450,-1472, -1447,-1090]} 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Bd3 a6 9. e4 c5 10. e5 cxd4 11. Nxb5 axb5 12. exf6 gxf6 13. O-O Qb6 14. Qe2 Bb7 15. Bxb5 {"One of the key positions... Black's king isn't exactly safe in the center, but it was hoped that there was sufficient counterplay against the white king. The complete analysis covered 75 A4 pages..." (81-82)} Bd6 ({In Game 5 Anand returned to} 15... Rg8 {, the team's main idea before the match. But} 16. a4 ({Instead Kramnik played} 16. Bf4 Bd6 17. Bg3 f5 { A last minute invention designed to overcome problems seen in} (17... Ke7 18. a4 Ne5 19. Nxe5 Bxe5 20. Qd2) 18. Rfc1 f4 19. Bh4 Be7 20. a4 Bxh4 21. Nxh4 Ke7 {and Black won in 35 moves. Kramnik,V (2772)-Anand,V (2783) Bonn (5) 2008}) 16... Bd6 17. g3 Qc5 (17... Ke7 18. Rd1 Bxf3 19. Qxf3 Ne5) 18. Nxd4 {was discovered by Nielsen to give White a serious edge, so the move was not used in Game 3 in favor of Kazimdzhanov's new idea.}) 16. Rd1 Rg8 17. g3 Rg4 18. Bf4 ({The engine discovery of} 18. b4 {lead Team Anand to shelve 15. ... Bd6 in Game 5.}) 18... Bxf4 19. Nxd4 h5 20. Nxe6 fxe6 21. Rxd7 Kf8 22. Qd3 Rg7 23. Rxg7 Kxg7 24. gxf4 Rd8 25. Qe2 Kh6 26. Kf1 Rg8 27. a4 Bg2+ 28. Ke1 Bh3 29. Ra3 Rg1+ 30. Kd2 Qd4+ 31. Kc2 Bg4 32. f3 Bf5+ 33. Bd3 Bh3 34. a5 Rg2 35. a6 Rxe2+ 36. Bxe2 Bf5+ 37. Kb3 Qe3+ 38. Ka2 Qxe2 39. a7 Qc4+ 40. Ka1 Qf1+ 41. Ka2 Bb1+ 0-1