Classical World Chess Championship 2004

Classical World Chess Championship 2004

The Classical World Chess Championship 2004 was held from September 25, 2004 - October 18, 2004 in Brissago, Switzerland. Vladimir Kramnik, the defending champion, played Peter Leko, the challenger, in a fourteen game match.

The match ended 7-7, each player scoring two wins. Kramnik retained his title under the rules of the match.[1]

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Background

Garry Kasparov's split from FIDE in 1993 resulted in two lines of world chess champions. There was the 'Classical' world champion, the title that only passes on to a player when he beats the previous world champion. This was held by Kasparov, until he was defeated by Kramnik in the Classical World Chess Championship 2000.

There was also the 'Official' FIDE world champion who, at the time of this match, was Rustam Kasimdzhanov.

This match was intended to be part of the "Prague Agreement" to reunite the World Championship, with the winner of this match (the "Classical" World Champion) to play the winner of a match between Kasparov and the FIDE World Champion, for a united world title. However these other matches never took place, although the title were later unified at the FIDE World Chess Championship 2006.

Qualification

The 2002 Dortmund Sparkassen Chess Meeting acted as the Candidates Tournament to determine the challenger to Kramnik's title. However not all of the top-ranked players were present. World #1 Garry Kasparov declined his invitation, instead insisting that he deserved a rematch with Kramnik based on his tournament results in 2001.[2] Some other players, including world #2 Viswanathan Anand, declined invitations because they believed they were in conflict with their obligations under the rival FIDE World Championship.

Leko won the Candidates Tournament:[3]

Preliminaries

Group 1                      1   2   3   4   Total
1= Alexei Shirov         x   1  1½  1½   4
1= Veselin Topalov       1   x  1½  1½   4
3  Boris Gelfand         ½   ½  x   1½   2½
4  Christopher Lutz      ½   ½  ½   x    1½

Shirov won a two-game playoff 1½-½ to be placed first ahead of Topalov.

Group 2                     1  2   3   4   Total
1  Evgeny Bareev        x  1   1   2   4
2  Peter Leko           1  x   1½  1   3½
3  Michael Adams        1  ½   x   1   2½
4  Alexander Morozevich 0  1   1   x   2

Semi-finals:

  • Leko defeated Shirov 2½-½
  • Topalov-Bareev was tied 2-2; Topalov won rapid playoff 1½-½

Final:

  • Leko defeated Topalov 2½-1½

Match score

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Total
Kramnik 2770 -29 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 7/14
Leko 2741 +29 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 7/14

Highlights

  • Game 1 - as black, Kramnik sacrifices his queen for rook and bishop, and outplays Leko in the ending to take the lead.[4]
  • Game 5 - Leko, as white, goes into an ending a pawn up with some winning chances, and outplays Kramnik to win, and level the match.[5]
  • Game 8 - Leko, as black in the Marshall Attack, plays into a line prepared by Kramnik's team, and finds the refutation over the board, to take a one point lead. Chessbase wrote, Many questions were answered by today's eighth match game. Does Leko have what it takes to beat Kramnik in a match? Is Kramnik's preparation simply unbeatable? Why don't many top players allow the Marshall Gambit with white? (That's "yes", "no", and "because no matter how well prepared you are you may get killed".)[6]
  • Game 11 - Leko, with white, accepts a draw by agreement in 16 moves, and is criticised for an apparent desire to draw the remaining games to win the title.[citation needed]
  • Game 12 - Leko switches to the Caro-Kann defence. Kramnik has winning chances, but Leko defends well and, with both players short on time, Leko offers a draw on move 34.[7]
  • Game 13 - Kramnik plays the Benoni, in a surprise attempt to win with black, but the game is drawn.[8] Kramnik must now win the final game.
  • Game 14 - Kramnik wins a dramatic final game to tie the match and retain his title.[9][10]

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