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In London, twenty years ago day for day, a match that changed chess history began. On October 9th, at 4pm, watch on our channel the first of a series of shows where the 14th classical World Champion Vladimir Kramnik will talk freely about chess in the 90's, its intrigues and rivalries, but also about his own trajectory up to the match against the invincible Garry Kasparov and his preparation for that match of 2000. World Champion analysis awaits you there, a lot of anecdotes, and more...
00:00 - Beginning
01:22 - Necessary introduction
04:00 - Why Kramnik didn't give Kasparov a rematch?
04:40 - The contract wasn't for the match only but for two more World Championship cycles, and the loser had to play in the Candidates' tournament
09:10 - Kramnik builds a team for his match against Kasparov
09:40 - Main principle in order to build a team - taking people with whom you get on well
10:23 - Second principle: work capacity
10:31 - Third one: that you can rely on those people
15:05 - What is a World Championship match?
15:30 - The two training camps of Kramnik
16:40 - Gelfand's role
17:52 - The global strategy
18:26 - "The main conception for any match preparation - being in form, and working on ideas"
20:27 - Creating a strategy in itself isn't difficult, implementing it in real life is
20:46 - Where does the idea of the Berlin endgame come from?
21:06 - "Looking at the position, I couldn't understand why should black be so much worse. An optical illusion helped me: if black could castle, he would probably simply be better."
22:35 - How the preparation went
24:10 - I decided very quickly what I would play in the match
27:00 - "My task was to do my things on the Scotch, and also to study the Berlin"
29:42 - "The Grunfeld was Miguel's to study, together with Joël we looked at the King's indian, and Zhenya had all the Slav structures"
31:50 - "Physically, Kramnik became someone else!"
32:00 - "I wanted to show what I was capable of. If he won, it would mean he was stronger"
32:58 - "Was I to play tennis, I would play guts out. Was I to swim, I wouldn't swim less than a kilometer."
33:28 - The man who would watch out for my shape and sleep was Valerii Nikolajevich Krylov, who also took a lot of pictures of us
35:25 - How they rated the chances before the match
35:27 - "I went to see a fortune teller, who told me 40-60. I cracked up and left"
38:25 - "I understood I wasn't the favorite, but it didn't bother me"
42:05 - "Before the start Kramnik was very calm"
45:40 - London 2000, game two
46:25 - Game one
46:36 - Kasparov started to think after 3..Nf6
52:34 - "Playing such positions with black is like walking on a minefield"!
1:02:38 - "The first game was very important for me..."
1:03:30 - At the Kramnik "headquarters"
1:04:16 - "Came the impression that Kasparov wasn't so well prepared"
1:06:10 - "I didn't know what we were going to play with black. The first time I saw the position, when we wrote the book, and even now, the position seems very very dangerous to me..."
1:09:15 - Botvinnik's history and "Salomonchik"
1:10:22 - Against Kasparov with no fear of spies
1:13:55 - Game two
1:14:05 - The Grunfeld, Kasparov's beloved opening, which he played all his life and recently had gotten excellent results with
1:14:15 - Truth be told, I didn't find anything special
1:15:56 - "Kasparov prepared the Bg4 line from blitz games I had played on the internet a year ago!"
1:26:22 - "Zoom on Kasparov's face while it isn't too late!"
1:26:40 - Kramnik drew first blood. First impressions
1:31:00 - When Kasparov had to defend a worse position, which wasn't to his liking, he, in my mind, did that very poorly
1:33:00 - A day in the life of a second during a World Championship match
1:36:20 - One of my missions was to cheer Volodya up, by telling him that everything wasn't so bad
1:37:10 - "It turns out that I didn't sit where I had to"!
1:39:45 - Game three
1:49:00 - I managed to feel the particularities of the Berlin
2:00:00 - Berlaga was panicking. My panic was based on the fact that Kramnik refuted our analysis with white, and had to make draws in a hurry!
2:01:20 - Luckily, in the following games it was easier!
2:02:20 - I am an optimist by nature, and I saw the situation somewhat differently: why bother, we have a one point lead, and overall everything is going well!
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