Vladimir Kramnik: Top 15 Amazing Chess Sacrifices until 2014

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Who is Vladimir Kramnik ?
ladimir Borisovich Kramnik (Russian: Влади́мир Бори́сович Кра́мник; born 25 June 1975) is a Russian chess grandmaster. He was the Classical World Chess Champion from 2000 to 2006, and the undisputed World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007. He has won three team gold medals and three individual medals at Chess Olympiads.[2]
In 2000, Kramnik defeated Garry Kasparov and became the Classical World Chess Champion. He defended his title in 2004 against Péter Lékó, and defeated the reigning FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov in a unification match in 2006. As a result, Kramnik became the first undisputed World Champion, holding both the FIDE and Classical titles, since Kasparov split from FIDE in 1993.
In 2007, Kramnik lost the title to Viswanathan Anand, who won the World Chess Championship 2007 tournament ahead of Kramnik. He challenged Anand at the World Chess Championship 2008 to regain his title, but lost. Nonetheless, he remained a top player; he reached a peak rating of 2817 in October 2016, which makes him the joint-eighth highest-rated player of all time.
Assessment and legacy
Playing style
Garry Kasparov described Kramnik's style as pragmatic and tenacious, in the latter similar to Anatoly Karpov.[52] He is one of the toughest opponents to defeat, losing only one game in over one hundred games leading up to his match with Kasparov, including eighty consecutive games without loss.[53][54] Kasparov did not defeat Kramnik during their 2000 World Championship match, partly due to Kramnik's use of the Berlin Defence of the Ruy Lopez. Kramnik is renowned for his endgame skills.[55][56][57][58]
Contributions to chess
Kramnik has significantly shaped opening theory in chess. Viswanathan Anand has said of him in 2012: "I don't know exactly how many lines he's established, but you get the impression that for the last 10 years we've only been using his ideas. ... His stamp on opening theory is much more significant than mine."[59] Kramnik's results with the white pieces against the King's Indian Defence made Kasparov drop the opening from his repertoire, and caused the opening to disappear from top-level play for many years.[60] Kramnik's use of the Berlin Defence in his 2000 match against Kasparov led to a massive increase in the opening's popularity.[61] Kramnik also revived the Catalan Opening.[62]
Early career
Vladimir Kramnik was born in the town of Tuapse, on the shores of the Black Sea. His father's birth name was Boris Sokolov, but he took his stepfather's surname when his mother (Vladimir's grandmother) remarried.[3] As a child, Vladimir Kramnik studied in the chess school established by Mikhail Botvinnik. His first notable result in a major tournament was his gold medal win as first reserve for the Russian team in the 1992 Chess Olympiad in Manila. His selection for the team caused some controversy in Russia at the time, as he was only a FIDE Master. However, his selection was supported by Garry Kasparov.[4] He scored eight wins, one draw, and no losses, a performance of 2958, which won a gold medal for best rating performance.
The following year, Kramnik played in the very strong tournament in Linares. He finished fifth, beating the then world number three, Vassily Ivanchuk, along the way. He followed this up with a string of good results, but had to wait until 1995 for his first major tournament win at normal time controls, when he won the strong Dortmund tournament, finishing it unbeaten.
In 1995, Kramnik served as a second for Kasparov in the Classical World Chess Championship 1995 match against challenger Viswanathan Anand. Kasparov won the match 10½-7½.
In January 1996, Kramnik became the world number-one rated player; although having the same FIDE rating as Kasparov (2775), Kramnik became number one by having played more games during the rating period in question. This was the first time since December 1985 that Kasparov was not world number one, and Kramnik's six month stretch (January through June 1996) as world number one would be the only time from January 1986 through March 2006 where Kasparov was not world number one. By becoming number one, Kramnik became the youngest ever to reach world number one, breaking Kasparov's record; this record would stand for 14 years until being broken by Magnus Carlsen in January 2010.
Kramnik continued to produce good results, including winning at Dortmund (outright or tied) ten times from 1995 to 2011. He is the second of only nine chess players to have reached a rating of 2800 (the first being Kasparov).
During his reign as world champion, Kramnik never regained the world number-one ranking, doing so only in January 2008 after he had lost the title to Viswanathan Anand...

[@mwangikimani3970]

At 30:12 reminds me of the Capablanca game when he was asked why he didn't fear the opponents passed pawns, his reply - "While my opponent was busy playing an endgame, I was busy playing chess".... goes to show how deceptive some of these middle-game positions are - they look like endgames but are really just queen-less middle-game positions where real mating nets can be created while you are in endgame lala-land.

[@LePingouin92]

Absolutely fantastic material. Thank you so much ☺

[@Nonixification]

at 45:59 I still dont get it how can a human calculate so deep. Giving up the queen for a rook just to gain a little bit better position is mindblowing. Very good video KC.

[@ZiggyZugzwang]

but it's a lot of fun as well ;). You probably realized that White had already given up a minor piece earlier. So Kramnik gave back some material. But he didnt really sac a queen just for a rook.

[@leandroearth]

6:40 Fantastic, superb, highest level, only the best ever is capable of doing this... clap clap clap clap... what a technique. All positions are incredible.... this is why I like Kramnik best he's the deepest vision Nice vid

[@TheSLK66]

Damn good sacrifices.

[@technowey]

Thank you for another great video.

[@herzwatithink9289]

Vlad's got a big set of balls!

[@tvistsand]

awesome vid!

[@SongsForBoredTimes]

36:00 like the final game with andrekin in the world cup! you can see how he got the idea...

[@joseandresthuel623]

Cool video. Do Judit Polgar next!

[@postmasterpez]

When I see this, it aperes funny to me that Kramink was or are named Drawnik.

[@northshores7319]

In the first example we watch Kasparov getting killed in a King Hunt. I have never seen Fischer lose to a King Hunt. Sure he lost his Queen to Spassky in game 11 in their Match and had been beaten but never in a King Hunt. Makes me wonder why everybody says Kasparov was better than Fischer. Kasparov himself said that Fischer would have had a hard time with Karpov and yet Kasparov only won two more games than Karpov did in all their meetings. More logical to bunch them all together at the top.

[@marttini7]

24:52 Why not bishop a3? cannot be taken because of Qxd4, and you connect your rooks at the same time -- remembering opponent's rook on a8 still threatened. If '...Bc5' then 'Qxd4, ...Bxd4' and the another rook on f8 is attacked.

[@Nocuras]

In the first game after Ra2 there's a mate in 4 with 1... Bxd3+ 2. Rxd3 Qh1+ 3. Ke2 Qg2+ 4. Ke3 Rxe4#

[@KillianDefaoite]

Ok, but what if ...Bxd3+ and then Qxd3? What do you do then?

[@imleksutra933]

Kramnik has Kasparov by the balls.

[@KillianDefaoite]

8:35 Is Bxh5, trying to deflect the g6 pawn, any good for white here?

[@VickKoMS]

I don't see a extra ordinary sacriface, Very poor imagination by Kramnik. FIsher was right, now chess is so booring in our time..

[@gxtmfa]

Did you count the material? At 4:40 Kramnik was a rook down against arguably the strongest chess player of all time. At the end, he's a piece down. If the imagination is so poor, please suggest what you would have done that was stronger than Kramnik, the former World Champion, played against Garry Kasparov.

[@vickkoms1207]

Garrett He have initiativ and attack, is it not enough? Look at king, without pawns.. Kasparov was In not his best year. This is my opinion

[@Herkull14]

Dont be jelly scrub

[@gxtmfa]

stop trolling