Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik is a famous Russian chess player. He is a true master of positional play. He prefers to practice closed positions when it is quite difficult for opponents to calculate the scenarios for the development of events. Kramnik is the 14th World Chess Champion. According to him, this is not a sport, but a real art. As a child, in Tuapse, where chess player Vladimir Kramnik is from, he beat not only his peers, but all adults. Even then, his parents and his first coaches predicted a great future for Vladimir.
Kramnik Family
Vladimir Kramnik was born on June 25, 1975 in Tuapse. He has an older brother Eugene. Their parents are creative people. My father studied at the art academy and became a sculptor and painter. Mother graduated from the conservatory in Lvov and subsequently worked as a music teacher. First, the parents of Vladimir and Evgeny left for Stavropol, where employers promised them housing and “mountains of gold”. But it did not work out, and they returned to Tuapse, where Vladimir Kramnik is from.
Childhood
Chess Kramnikstarted playing from a young age. When he was 3 years old, he watched the party of his brother and father. Once, noticing the child's close attention, Vladimir's dad jokingly suggested that he arrange the pieces on the board. And the peanut immediately unmistakably completed the task. To his father's surprised question whether he can play, Vladimir answered "yes." A week later, he was calmly beating his dad.
The very first coach of the young chess player was his father, who taught Vladimir to play until the age of four. After that, he began to attend a chess club at the Palace of Pioneers. There he first fought with the first-class guys. Then Vladimir was trained by Grandmaster Tseshkovsky.
At the age of seven, Vladimir Kramnik received 1st category. At the age of 9 he became the champion of the Union among juniors. And at the age of 10 he was considered the best player in all of Tuapse.
The beginning of the path to the chess Olympus
When Vladimir was 11 years old, their whole family moved to Moscow, and previously lived in Tuapse, where the chess player Vladimir Kramnik comes from. In Moscow, he was invited to his school by Botvinnikov, who was helped by Garry Kasparov to train the guys. So Vladimir turned out to be a pupil of two strongest chess players. At the age of eleven, Kramnik became a candidate for master of sports. 2 years pass, and he is already a master of sports. At the age of 16 - the world champion among juniors.
Chess star
At Kasparov's insistence, in 1992 the young Kramnik was included in the Russian national chess team. Vladimir lived up to expectations and scored 8.5 points out of 9 possible. Then he received "gold": in1992, 1994, 1996 and 2013
At the age of 17, Kramnik lost two final matches (at FIDE and PCA tournaments) to Kamsky and Gelfand. Since 1995, Vladimir begins to win more and more often in numerous competitions. As a result, in Russia he took second place in terms of skill after Kasparov. In 2009, Kramnik became the first chess player to win the Dortmund Super Tournament 10 times. This achievement was listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
World Cup matches
The path to the title of world champion for Kramnik was somewhat unusual. Several scheduled matches with the challengers fell through due to money difficulties and some controversy. Kasparov decides to help Vladimir by offering a duel and putting his own world title at stake. Harry was sure that the victory would go to him, and did not write a rematch into the contract. But Vladimir Kramnik is a chess player from God. And Kasparov loses, and his title goes to the opponent.
In 2002, Vladimir played a game of chess with the computer program Deep Fritz. The duel ended in a draw. In 2004, Kramnik fought the Hungarian Peter Leko and barely retained the title of world champion, avoiding defeat in the last game. The score was 7:7. Since 2004, Kramnik's he alth has been deteriorating due to a rare form of arthritis that doctors discovered in the chess player. He struggles to keep his position in the top ten.
The fight for the title of absolute world champion
In 2006 there was a match between Kramnik and Topalov for the title of absolute champion. Dueltook place in Elista. It is worth describing separately with what perseverance, despite the negative events, Vladimir Kramnik achieved this honorary title, whose biography contains many victories in chess tournaments. His fight for this title was accompanied by a loud scandal.
Kramnik was accused of using computer prompts and frequently going to the toilet. The appeal committee changed the contract for the match unilaterally and thus violated Vladimir's rights. Kramnik did not come to the 5th game in protest. And he was credited with defeat.
But Vladimir Kramnik did not refuse to continue the fight and continued the fight. The first 12 games ended in a draw. Then Kramnik won on a time-break. The overall score was outweighed in his favor. As a result, he was recognized as the absolute champion of the planet. Received a prize of half a million dollars and the right to participate in FIDE 2007.
In 2007, Kramnik lost the title to another famous chess player - Viswanathan Anand. In December of the same year, a rematch was scheduled, which took place in 2008 and ended again with Anand's victory.
Kramnik's personal life
In the mid-90s, Kramnik had a short affair with a chess player from Slovakia, Eva Repkova. The couple practically did not go out in public and did not want to catch the eye of annoying paparazzi. The novel began quietly and ended just as modestly and without scandals. Kramnik never liked to put his personal life on public display.
Then in 2005 Vladimirmet a journalist from France, Marie-Laure Germont. Two years later they got married. The marriage was modest. No more than 40 guests. Only very close people of the bride and groom. Vladimir Kramnik's father, unfortunately, could not come due to illness, but he sent a gift (a silver elephant with precious stones) to his son.
The wedding cake for the newlyweds was made in the form of a chessboard with pieces of chocolate. Moreover, they were arranged as they stood when Vladimir became the world champion. At first, the newlyweds communicated in English. Now Vladimir's wife already knows a little Russian. Kramnik's daughter Daria was born in 2008 and son Vadim in 2013
