Vladimir Kramnik

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Vladimir Kramnik is a Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion renowned for defeating Garry Kasparov in 2000 and for his deep strategic style.

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Vladimir Kramnik canonical 8
Kramnik 1
Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World Chess Champion
chess grandmaster
chess player
human
competedIn Chess Olympiad
continuesToPlay experimental chess formats
online chess
countryOfBirth Soviet Union
countryOfCitizenship Russia
Soviet Union
dateOfBirth 1975-06-25
defeated Garry Kasparov
defeatedInEvent World Chess Championship
surface form: Classical World Chess Championship 2000
familyName Vladimir Kramnik self-linksurface differs
surface form: Kramnik
FIDEID 4101588
fullName Vladimir Kramnik self-linksurface differs
surface form: Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik
gender male
givenName Vladimir
introducedOpening Berlin Defense revival in the Ruy Lopez
knownFor contributions to opening theory
deep strategic style
defeating Garry Kasparov in 2000
lostTitleTo Viswanathan Anand
name Vladimir Kramnik self-link
nativeLanguage Russian
occupation chess grandmaster
chess player
openingSpecialty Berlin Defense
Catalan Opening
The Queen's Gambit
surface form: Queen's Gambit
participatedIn World Chess Championship 2000
World Chess Championship 2004
World Chess Championship 2006
World Chess Championship 2007
World Chess Championship 2008
peakFIDERating 2817
peakFIDERatingDate 2016-10
peakWorldRanking 1
placeOfBirth Tuapse
playedForNationalTeam Russia
playingStyle positional
strategic
retiredFromClassicalChess 2019
title Grandmaster
won World Chess Championship 2000
surface form: Classical World Chess Championship 2000

World Chess Championship 2004
surface form: Classical World Chess Championship 2004

World Chess Championship 2006
worldChampionIn chess
worldChampionTitleEnd 2007
worldChampionTitleStart 2000
yearAwardedTitle 1992

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Vladimir notableBearer Vladimir Kramnik
Garry Kasparov playedMatchAgainst Vladimir Kramnik
Mikhail Botvinnik coachOf Vladimir Kramnik
Viswanathan Anand notableRival Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Kramnik name Vladimir Kramnik self-link
Vladimir Kramnik fullName Vladimir Kramnik self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Vladimir Borisovich Kramnik
Vladimir Kramnik familyName Vladimir Kramnik self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Kramnik
Chess Oscar notableRecipient Vladimir Kramnik
Veselin Topalov defeatedInMatchBy Vladimir Kramnik