Vladimir Kramnik (1975), a famous Russian chess player, was awarded the title of Grandmaster in 1992. Professional FIDE World Champion (title maintained from 2001-2006), FIDE and FIDE World Champion, undisputed 14th Chess Champion (title maintained from 2006-2007).
Born in 1975 in a tourist destination near the Black Sea in Russia, Vladimir Kramnik played chess in 1979 at the age of 4 and defeated two international grandmasters in 1985 at the age of 10. Winner of the regional adult championship. In 1986, at the age of 11, he entered the Kasparov-Botvinnik Chess School in Moscow, and studied under Kasparov, who had just become the world chess champion, and has since made rapid progress, and Kasparov has also rated him highly. Educated in chess culture, Kramnik is not only extremely talented and well-qualified, but also dignified and personable. Five years later, at the age of 16 in 1991, he won the World Junior Championship in the 18-year-old group and occupied his place in the world's highest chess world.
He has participated in the Olympiad since 1992 and has made important contributions to the Russian team's many championships. Among them, in the 1992 Olympiad, at the age of 17, he played the 5th stage and scored 8.5 points in 9 appearances, becoming the highest winning rate in the whole game; At the 2006 Olympiad, he became the best male chess player with a performance score of 2847 points.
Since 1995, its international rating has remained in the top three in the world, and has reached the first and second places, becoming one of the few world-class top masters.
Major achievements include winning or tied for first place in the following international competitions - Hogan and Belgrand in 1995; 1996 Dors Hermas; Tilburg in 1997; 1998 Vic Anze, Waiconzi. Since 2000, he has won the Linares Competition three times; In 2009, after 1995-1998, 2000-2001 and 2006-2007, he won the Dortmund Grand Prix for the ninth time (runner-up in 2013), thus being included in the Guinness Book of Records as the first master to win nine super competitions.
The results in the World Championship Series are as follows: The 1994 FIDE World Championship Candidate Series knockout round lost to Gelfand 3.5:4.5; The ProFIC World Championship Candidates' Tournament lost to Carmsky 1.5:4.5. In 1998, he lost to Shilov 3.5:5.5 in the 1998 FIDE and PROFESSIONAL FIDES World Championship Candidate Tournament. In 1999, at the 2nd FIDE World Championships, he defeated Korcinoi and Topalov and lost to Adams. In 2001, he won the FIDE World Championship with a 8.5–6.5 victory over Kasparov. In 2004, he drew 7:7 with Recco in a match, successfully defending his title. In 2006, he defeated FIDE's new world champion Topalov in a match 8.5:7.5 (2 wins, 1 and 1 loss) to become the inaugural WORLD Champion of FIDE and the Professional FIDE. In the 2008 World Championship Match, he lost to Anand 4.5:6.5 and lost the title of champion.
He is also a master of fast chess and blind chess, winning the fast chess league championship in New York and Moscow in 1994 and the top master invitation tournament in monaco blind chess and fast chess combination competitions in 1996-1999. Won the 2000 and 2006 Chess Oscars. Winner of the 2010 Grand Slam Finals. In 2011, he reached the final four of the World Championship Candidate Competition. In 2012, he played against Aronian for the first time in the history of chess with a score of 2800 or more, and drew 3:3. 2012, 2014 London Classic Runner-up. Runner-up in the World Championship Candidate Competition in 2013 and third in 2014. In 2014, he won the second place in the Petrosin Memorial Tournament and the third place in the LCC Blitzkrieg Quick Chess Tournament. Winner of the 2015 Zurich Challenge Quick Chess Tournament, ranked third overall.
With a steady style, comprehensive technology and profound understanding of the situation, he is an excellent situation chess player.
Q&A session
1. Looking back over the past 40 years, who has had the greatest influence on the early development of your chess career?
Kramnik: I remember the only book I had as a kid about some of Karpov's best competitions, and then I started studying it day and night, and it went on for about a year, so it was probably the book that had the biggest impact on me.
Your biggest achievement was beating Kasparov at the World Slow Chess Tournament in London in 2000. How did you do it?
My main strength is an extremely stable mindset. My mentality is very stable, there is almost no desire to win, this is my "trump card". I don't care that much about winning at all, which is why I play so calmly and why I always come back to the field. Victory or defeat is a common affair, and failure is part of playing chess. I don't have an athlete-like attitude at all, and I'm not a competitive person
2. What advice do you have for the younger generation of chess players? (Cramnik implements the concept of the road to simplicity, and the answer is very simple)
Cramnik: I'm lucky that I've never had an opinion around me, so I need to learn from my own experience. You need to draw nourishment from the experiences of failure and the mistakes you have made, which is much better than listening to others.
Cramnik adopted a good strategy and implemented it successfully. Although Kramnik was not the first to try to bring down Kasparov, he was the first to get what he wanted.
—Viswanathan Anand
You have to be in good health, have a strong nervous system, and you have to hate losing. Only then will you have a chance to become a world champion.
—Vladimir Kramnik
Part of it was transferred from the Chinese Chess Association
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