Dortmund GM tournament
Round 07 – Friday, August 2 2013, 15:00h |
Daniel Fridman |
2629 |
½-½
|
Peter Leko |
2737 |
Dmitri Andrejkin |
2727 |
1-0
|
Vladimir Kramnik |
2784 |
Fabiano Caruana |
2796 |
½-½
|
Georg Meier |
2610 |
Michael Adams |
2740 |
1-0
|
Igor Khenkin |
2605 |
Wang Hao |
2752 |
0-1
|
Arkadij Naiditsch |
2710 |
After six rounds Michael Adams and Vladimir Kramnik were in the joint lead,
with 5.0/7, two full points ahead of the field. In round seven Adams beat
Igor Khenkin in a regular Caro-Kann, while Kramnik lost to Dmitry Andreikin
in a Queen's Gambit. Wang Hao went badly wrong with a piece sacrifice and
lost to Arjadij Naiditsch in 33 moves. Peter Leko drew a very promising
game against Daniel Fridman.
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Round 08 – Saturday, August 3 2013, 15:00h |
Peter Leko |
2737 |
1-0
|
Arkadij Naiditsch |
2710 |
Igor Khenkin |
2605 |
1-0
|
Wang Hao |
2752 |
Georg Meier |
2610 |
½-½
|
Michael Adams |
2740 |
Vladimir Kramnik |
2784 |
1-0
|
Fabiano Caruana |
2796 |
Daniel Fridman |
2629 |
½-½
|
Dmitri Andrejkin |
2727 |
Michael Adams, playing black, drew a Closed Catalan against Georg Meier
in 39 moves. Vladimir Kramnik needed 76 moves to grind down top seed Fabiano
Caruana in an Exchange Gruenfeld. This meant that the former World Champion
moved into striking distance, half a point behind the leader, whom he plays
with black in the final round. Peter Leko defeated Arkadij Naiditsch after
the German GM blundered badly on move 30, while Igor Khenkin beat the luckless
Wang Hao in a King's Indian.
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Standings after eight rounds

Cheating in the Dortmund Open

Suspected fraud overshadowed Chess Tournament
Shock at the Sparkassen Open: the tournament director of amateur chess
tournament, which takes place in the prestigious Chess Meeting in the Town
Hall, has disqualified a Bundesliga player. He was the favorite –
but his winning streak clearly wasn't achieved with regular means. The tournament
direction in Dortmund accused Bundesliga player Jens Kotainy, who is on
the verge of becoming a grandmaster, of receiving moves on his cell phone,
which he carried in his trouser pocket.
"We were watching this player around the clock and noticed irregularities,"
said tournament director Christian Goldschmidt said on Saturday. After each
move Kotainy [who was leading the Open with 7.0/7 points] put his
hand into his left pocket, so regularly that it aroused suspicious. "There
have been rumors about his previous achievements," Goldschmidt said.
The accusation: the player was receiving the moves of a computer in a kind
of Morse code. The tournament direction checked the moves against those
of the well-known chess engine Houdini, and found an up to 100% match.
On Friday Kotainy was asked to submit his cell phone, which appeared to
be turned off. Goldschmidt: "Nevertheless, we asked him to surrender
the phone before Saturday's game." It suddenly started to vibrate in
the hand of the referee. "That was enough for a disqualification."
The tournament direction asked the police to secure the evidence, but were
not allowed to confiscate the cell phone.
Jens Kotainy confirmed that he had the cell phone in his pocket, but stated
that it was switched off. "I'm not the only one with a cell phone in
the tournament," he said. "But I did not cheat." What about
the mysterious vibrations? "My brother used the phone before me,"
said Kotainy. His brother Gregory, said Kotainy, was a trained computer
programmer who writes programs for Android phones. The installed program
was an anti-theft app that reports via the Internet where it currently is
located. If there is no Internet connection it vibrates every ten seconds,
explained brother Gregory Kotainy.
Similar to the doping scandals in cycling the reputation of an entire sport
is at stake. The President of the German Chess Federation Herbert Bastian
are visibly nervous, but do not want prejudge this case. Gerd Kolbe, the
tournament director of the Sparkassen Chess Meeting, was clearer: "We
have a significant case here, one that has rained on our birthday party."
The Chess Meeting is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

"Inhumane move" was the title of a report on fraud, suspicion
and paranoia in chess that appeared in the prestigious German newspaper
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Thursday. He has been refused admission
to a tournament in Dormund, and the Bundesliga club SF Katernberg, under
pressure of other players, removed him from their team list. At the Easter
Open in Deizisau he had played practically like Houdini, when his game was
broadcast online. In Bundesliga matches a week later it was the same. When
the broadcast was interrupted due to technical proble, Kotainys's started
playing human moves. In order to make thing more difficult for cheats the
Bundesliga is planning to delay
the broadcast in the future.
Dortmund 2013 – Schedule, pairings and results
Round 01 – Friday, July 26 2013, 15:00h |
Igor Khenkin |
2605 |
½-½
|
Peter Leko |
2737 |
Georg Meier |
2610 |
1-0
|
Arkadij Naiditsch |
2710 |
Vladimir Kramnik |
2784 |
1-0
|
Wang Hao |
2752 |
Daniel Fridman |
2629 |
½-½
|
Michael Adams |
2740 |
Dmitri Andrejkin |
2727 |
0-1
|
Fabiano Caruana |
2796 |
Round 02 – Saturday, July 27 2013, 15:00h |
Peter Leko |
2737 |
|
Fabiano Caruana |
2796 |
Michael Adams |
2740 |
1-0
|
Dmitri Andrejkin |
2727 |
Wang Hao |
2752 |
1-0
|
Daniel Fridman |
2629 |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
2710 |
|
Vladimir Kramnik |
2784 |
Igor Khenkin |
2605 |
|
Georg Meier |
2610 |
Round 03 – Sunday, July 28 2013, 15:00h |
Georg Meier |
2610 |
|
Peter Leko |
2737 |
Vladimir Kramnik |
2784 |
|
Igor Khenkin |
2605 |
Daniel Fridman |
2629 |
|
Arkadij Naiditsch |
2710 |
Dmitri Andrejkin |
2727 |
|
Wang Hao |
2752 |
Fabiano Caruana |
2796 |
0-1
|
Michael Adams |
2740 |
Round 04 – Monday, July 29 2013, 15:00h |
Peter Leko |
2737 |
½-½
|
Michael Adams |
2740 |
Wang Hao |
2752 |
1-0
|
Fabiano Caruana |
2796 |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
2710 |
1-0
|
Dmitri Andrejkin |
2727 |
Igor Khenkin |
2605 |
½-½
|
Daniel Fridman |
2629 |
Georg Meier |
2610 |
0-1
|
Vladimir Kramnik |
2784 |
Round 05 – Tuesday, July 30 2013, 15:00h |
Vladimir Kramnik |
2784 |
1-0
|
Peter Leko |
2737 |
Daniel Fridman |
2629 |
½-½
|
Georg Meier |
2610 |
Dmitri Andrejkin |
2727 |
1-0
|
Igor Khenkin |
2605 |
Fabiano Caruana |
2796 |
½-½
|
Arkadij Naiditsch |
2710 |
Michael Adams |
2740 |
1-0
|
Wang Hao |
2752 |
Round 06 – Thursday, August 1 2013, 15:00h |
Peter Leko |
2737 |
½-½
|
Wang Hao |
2752 |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
2710 |
0-1
|
Michael Adams |
2740 |
Igor Khenkin |
2605 |
½-½
|
Fabiano Caruana |
2796 |
Georg Meier |
2610 |
½-½
|
Dmitri Andrejkin |
2727 |
Vladimir Kramnik |
2784 |
1-0
|
Daniel Fridman |
2629 |
Round 07 – Friday, August 2 2013, 15:00h |
Daniel Fridman |
2629 |
½-½
|
Peter Leko |
2737 |
Dmitri Andrejkin |
2727 |
1-0
|
Vladimir Kramnik |
2784 |
Fabiano Caruana |
2796 |
½-½
|
Georg Meier |
2610 |
Michael Adams |
2740 |
1-0
|
Igor Khenkin |
2605 |
Wang Hao |
2752 |
0-1
|
Arkadij Naiditsch |
2710 |
Round 08 – Saturday, August 3 2013, 15:00h |
Peter Leko |
2737 |
1-0
|
Arkadij Naiditsch |
2710 |
Igor Khenkin |
2605 |
1-0
|
Wang Hao |
2752 |
Georg Meier |
2610 |
½-½
|
Michael Adams |
2740 |
Vladimir Kramnik |
2784 |
1-0
|
Fabiano Caruana |
2796 |
Daniel Fridman |
2629 |
½-½
|
Dmitri Andrejkin |
2727 |
Round 09 – Sunday, August 4 2013, 13:00h
|
Dmitri Andrejkin |
2727 |
-
|
Peter Leko |
2737 |
Fabiano Caruana |
2796 |
-
|
Daniel Fridman |
2629 |
Michael Adams |
2740 |
-
|
Vladimir Kramnik |
2784 |
Wang Hao |
2752 |
-
|
Georg Meier |
2610 |
Arkadij Naiditsch |
2710 |
-
|
Igor Khenkin |
2605 |

Born in 1975 in Tuapse on the shores of the Black Sea, Vladimir Kramnik
studied at the Botvinnik-Kasparov chess school. At 16 he was included in
the Russian Olympiad team and scored a sensational 8.5/9, the best result
at the Olympiad. After that followed a string of great tournament results,
culminating in a world championship challenge. In 2000 Kramnik played the
chess legend Garry Kasparov and beat him to take the title, which he successfully
defended in 2004 against Peter Leko and 2006 against FIDE champion Veselin
Topalov, whom he defeated to take the unified world championship title.

On this DVD Vladimir Kramnik retraces his career from talented schoolboy
to World Champion in 2006. With humour and charm he describes his first
successes, what it meant to be part of the Russian Gold Medal team at the
Olympiad, and how he undertook the Herculean task of beating his former
mentor and teacher Garry Kasparov. Kramnik dissects his wins against Leko
and Topalov, giving us a vivid impression of the super-dramatic final games
of the 2006 match. His commentary is full of useful advice and provides
a fascinating insight into the thought processes that govern top level play.

The DVD contains more than six hours of video with narrative and game analysis.
There are also five additional segments from an exclusive video interview
on the intrigues that surrounded the 2006 world championship, and on the
state of the chess world in general.


Vladmir Kramnik:
MY PATH TO THE TOP
- ChessMedia format
- on DVD-ROM
- Video running time: 6 hrs
- Language: English
- EAN 4027975004990
- recommended retail price:
- 39.99 € incl. VAT
- 33.61 € without VAT (for customers outside the European Union)
- US $45.7 (without VAT)