Dortmund R8 – Kramnik and Topalov win

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7/16/2005 – Arkadij Naiditsch, the lowest-rated player, is still in the lead in Dortmund, but three top GMs are in hot pursuit one round before the end of the Sparkassen Chess Meeting: van Wely, Kramnik and Svidler. Kramnik achieved this by beating Nielsen, and both players afterwards analysed their game for a world-wide audience on TV ChessBase.

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SPARKASSEN
CHESS MEETING
2005
8 to 17 July 2005

Round eight report

Round 8: Saturday, July 16, 15:00h
Loek van Wely
0-1
Veselin Topalov
Peter Leko
½-½
Emil Sutovsky
Michael Adams
½-½
Peter Svidler
Arkadij Naiditsch
½-½
Etienne Bacrot
Vladimir Kramnik
1-0
Peter H. Nielsen

Full report to follow...


Chess in the State Theatre of Dortmund


Kramnik vs Nielsen, Leko vs Sutovsky (background)


Kramnik and Adams (background) deep in thought


Vladimir Kramnik in a game he went on to win (against Peter Heine Nielsen)


Loek van Wely against Veselin Topalov


Topalov searching for (and ultimately finding) a win.


Peter Heine Nielsen and Kramnik (with Oliver Reeh) in TV ChessBase


Kramnik explains his moves to a world-wide audience after the game


Peter Heine Nielsen, who joined Kramnik in analysing his game

All pictures by Olena Boytsun

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Standings

Full Schedule and Results

Round 1: Friday, July 8, 15:00h
Peter Leko
1-0
Loek van Wely
Michael Adams
1-0
Veselin Topalov
Arkadij Naiditsch
1-0
Emil Sutovsky
Vladimir Kramnik
½-½
Peter Svidler
Peter H. Nielsen
1-0
Etienne Bacrot
Round 2: Saturday, July 9, 15:00h
Loek van Wely
1-0
Etienne Bacrot
Veselin Topalov
1-0
Arkadij Naiditsch
Emil Sutovsky
1-0
Vladimir Kramnik
Peter Svidler
½-½
Peter H. Nielsen
Peter Leko
½-½
Michael Adams
Round 3: Sunday, July 10, 15:00h
Michael Adams
0-1
Loek van Wely
Vladimir Kramnik
1-0
Veselin Topalov
Peter H. Nielsen
½-½
Emil Sutovsky
Etienne Bacrot
½-½
Peter Svidler
Arkadij Naiditsch
1-0
Peter Leko
Round 4: Monday, July 11, 15:00h
Loek van Wely
½-½
Peter Svidler
Veselin Topalov
½-½
Peter H. Nielsen
Emil Sutovsky
0-1
Etienne Bacrot
Peter Leko
½-½
Vladimir Kramnik
Michael Adams
½-½
Arkadij Naiditsch
Round 5: Tuesday, July 12, 15:00h
Arkadij Naiditsch
½-½
Loek van Wely
Etienne Bacrot
½-½
Veselin Topalov
Peter Svidler
½-½
Emil Sutovsky
Peter H. Nielsen
0-1
Peter Leko
Vladimir Kramnik
½-½
Michael Adams
Rest day: Wednesday, July 13
Round 6: Thursday, July 14, 15:00h
Loek van Wely
1-0
Emil Sutovsky
Veselin Topalov
½-½
Peter Svidler
Peter Leko
½-½
Etienne Bacrot
Michael Adams
1-0
Peter H. Nielsen
Arkadij Naiditsch
½-½
Vladimir Kramnik
Round 7: Friday, July 15, 15:00h
Vladimir Kramnik
½-½
Loek van Wely
Emil Sutovsky
½-½
Veselin Topalov
Peter Svidler
1-0
Peter Leko
Etienne Bacrot
1-0
Michael Adams
Peter H. Nielsen
0-1
Arkadij Naiditsch
Round 8: Saturday, July 16, 15:00h
Loek van Wely
0-1
Veselin Topalov
Peter Leko
½-½
Emil Sutovsky
Michael Adams
½-½
Peter Svidler
Arkadij Naiditsch
½-½
Etienne Bacrot
Vladimir Kramnik
1-0
Peter H. Nielsen
Round 9: Sunday, July 17, 13:00h
Peter H. Nielsen
-
Loek van Wely
Veselin Topalov
-
Peter Leko
Emil Sutovsky
-
Michael Adams
Peter Svidler
-
Arkadij Naiditsch
Etienne Bacrot
-
Vladimir Kramnik
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