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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Dortmund R3 result

The youngest player, German GM Arkadij Naiditsch, beat Vladimir Kramnik's Petroff Defence.On the Playchess server there was great excitement over Naiditsch' dramatic novelty – except that one visitor, Garry Kasparov, who is in Barcelona, preparing for an ICBI lecture on Wednesday, told us that he had analysed this back in 1999 (with the moves 16.a4 b4 17.Bf4 inserted). He predicted a good game for White, giving us all the main lines before they occurred on the board. There is apparently nothing new under the sun.

Round 3: Tuesday, July 1, 15:00h
Arkadij Naiditsch
1-0
Vladimir Kramnik
Shak. Mamedyarov
½-½
Jan Gustafsson
Vassily Ivanchuk
½-½
Ian Nepomniachtchi
Loek van Wely
½-½
Peter Leko

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