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Hell didn't quite freeze over, but something nearly as rare has happened: Russians Vladimir Kramnik and Garry Kasparov both lost games in the space of three days, and they weren't even playing each other.
Kramnik, defending his classical world chess title in Brissago, Switzerland, was ground down in a long ending by challenger Peter Leko of Hungary in last Saturday's Game 5, evening the score in the overall match. The news got worse for the champ when he went down in just 32 moves on the White side of a Ruy Lopez Marshall in Game 8, giving Leko a 41/2-31/2 lead with six games to go.See the full content of this document
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Champs Suffer Rare Defeats
Kasparov, the former champ and still the world's highest-rated player, was upset earlier this week by veteran Russian GM Sergei Rublevsky while competing in the 20th European Club Cup team championship in Izmir, Turkey. Some of the world's strongest players, including England's Mic...
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