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Kasparov-Kramnik third game drawn
MOSCOW, DEC. 5. Braingames World chess champion Vladimir Kramnik could not make much use of the white pieces for the second time and made a draw in the third game against World No.1 Garry Kasparov in the Botvinnik Memorial match here on Tuesday.
The game was over in little over two hours of play with 38-year old Kasparov opting to play a new opening with the black pieces in the 21-move encounter. The score is 1.5-1.5 after three games and in the fourth game, Kasparov will have the white pieces on Wednesday.
In game three, Kasparov as black returned to the Tartakower variation of the queen's gambit declined and improved on his own 15th move in the game he played against Viktor Korchnoi in the 1983 Candidates. In the opening game on Saturday he had chosen to play accept the queen's gambit. Kramnik could not stop black from exchanging the vital pieces and after 21 moves he accepted black's draw offer.
The moves: GM V.Kramnik-GM G.Kasparov, match game three, Queen's Gambit Declined, Tartakower variation D58: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 0-0 6.e3 h6 7.Bh4 b6 8.Qb3 Bb7 9.Bxf6 Bxf6 10.cxd5 exd5 11.Rd1 Re8 12.a3 c6 13.Bd3 Nd7 14.0-0 g6 15.Bb1 Bg7 16.e4 Ba6 17.Rfe1 Bc4 18.Qc2 dxe4 19.Rxe4 Rxe4 20.Qxe4 Bb3 21.Bc2 Nf6 Draw. - Our Chess Correspondent
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