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Re: Kramnik-Alekseev (Tal Memorial)
Reply #4 - 06/04/08 at 16:34:37
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Thanks!  I'll look out for it.  I must confess that I was a little cool on this series for correspondence purposes, but am finding lots of great material that rewards careful preparation and analysis...
  
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It's written from the white perspective, although new ideas for Black also get covered.
  
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Re: Kramnik-Alekseev (Tal Memorial)
Reply #2 - 05/25/08 at 16:25:22
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Interesting!  Is the coverage designed as a dangerous weapon for White or Black?
  
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Re: Kramnik-Alekseev (Tal Memorial)
Reply #1 - 05/25/08 at 10:20:44
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This Sosonko-Kramnik Gambit, as I quite like to refer to it as, is indeed pretty fascinating and dangerous. There's some coverage in the forthcoming 'Dangerous Weapons: The Benoni and Benko'! Smiley That should be published in about a month's time.
  
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Kramnik-Alekseev (Tal Memorial)
05/10/08 at 12:44:03
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Someone made reference to this game in another Nimzo thread as cooling Black's willingness to run down this road.  I recently found myself on the White side of this line in a correspondence game when Black seemed to improve of Alekseev's play with 8...f5

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 c5 4.d5 exd5 5.cxd5 b5 6.e4 Nxe4 7.Qe2 Qe7 8.Bg2 f5 

My instinct is that 9.d6 isn't right and ventures a bit too far, but I wonder what Kramnik had in mind against 8...f5.


[Event "Tal Memorial"]
[Site "0:35:33-0:24:33"]
[Date "2007.11.16"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Vladimir Kramnik"]
[Black "Evgeny Alekseev"]
[ECO "E00"]
[WhiteElo "2811"]
[BlackElo "2716"]
[PlyCount "61"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 c5 4.d5 exd5 5.cxd5 b5 6.e4 Nxe4 7.Qe2
Qe7 8.Bg2 Nd6 9.Be3 b4 10.Bxc5 Qxe2+ 11.Nxe2 Na6 12.Bxd6 Bxd6
13.Nd2 Rb8 14.Nc4 Be7 15.d6 Bf6 16.Nf4 Nc5 17.O-O Ba6 18.Nd5
O-O 19.Nxf6+ gxf6 20.Bd5 Na4 21.Rfc1 Rfe8 22.Ne3 Rb6 23.Rc7
Rxd6 24.Rd1 Kh8 25.Nf5 Rb6 26.Bxf7 Nxb2 27.Rdxd7 Re1+ 28.Kg2
Bf1+ 29.Kf3 Be2+ 30.Kf4 Rb8 31.Bc4 1-0
  
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