List of Chess Games - 2000s

2000s

• 2000: Kasparov–Kramnik, Classical World Chess Championship 2000, Game 3. Kramnik revives the Berlin Defense to the Ruy Lopez (which had fallen out of favour), in which the queens are exchanged on move 8. The queenless endgame is difficult for Kramnik to defend but limits Kasparov's options, and the game ends in draw by agreement.
• 2005: Anand–Topalov, Sofia. This stunning game, played in MTel Masters 2005, was called "23rd Century Chess" by Kramnik.
• 2006: Deep Fritz–Kramnik, World Chess Challenge: Man vs. Machine, Game 2, Bonn, Germany. Reigning world champion Vladimir Kramnik overlooks a mate in one against the Deep Fritz chess computer, in what Susan Polgar called the "blunder of the century".