Kramnik, Vladimir – Aronian, Levon

2801 2012 · Draw

Vladimir Kramnik, world champion from 2000 to 2007 — the man who dethroned Garry Kasparov by stonewalling him with the Berlin Defence, ever since nicknamed "the Berlin Wall" — meets Levon Aronian, then a world top-three player and one of the game’s most imaginative minds. Two deep strategists in the Four Knights: the apparent simplicity hides positional chess of the highest order.