Actually, it looked like the challenger was better for most of that game,
and the Champ got out by a bit of error on Leko`s part. Not sure how much
of a beating that was, I think Leko was doing more beating overall. ;-)
Too bad it turned out how it did. Kramnik took care of the inaccurate play
from Leko in harsh style with the fine 34...Qc2! I wonder how Leko could
have proceeded differently. The commentators on ICC and chess.fm seemed to
think 32.Rad7 was a decisive mistake.


(2) Leko(GM) (2722) - Kramnik(GM) (2777) [B33]
Linares Linares, Spain (11), 02.03.2004


1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 b5
9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.Nd5 f5 11.Bd3 Be6 12.0-0 Bxd5 13.exd5 Ne7 14.Qh5 e4 15.Be2
Bg7 16.c3 Rc8 17.Nc2 Rc5 18.Ne3 f4 19.Nf5 0-0 20.a4 Nxf5 21.Qxf5 Qe7 22.axb5
axb5 23.Qxf4 Rxd5 24.Rfd1 Re5 25.Qe3 f5 26.Qb6 f4 27.Qxd6 Qg5 28.f3 e3
29.Ra7 Kh8 30.Qd7 Rg8 31.Qh3 Qg6 32.Rad7 Rh5 33.R7d6 Bf6 34.Rxf6 Qc2 35.Qxh5
Qxe2 36.g4 Qf2+ 0-1



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