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The 2008 Anand – Kramnik Times

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This article contains the links to the times for the moves of the Anand – Kramnik World Chess Championship Match in Bonn, Germany, from October 14th to October 29th, 2008. Our Agent Chronicle was in place and covered all 11 games:

1        2        3        4        5        6        7        8        9        10      11

The management of time played a significant role in the match, as can be seen in Games 3 and 5. Kramnik responded to new positions successfully, but took a lot of time with his early decisions. As a result, he had to hurry his moves later, made decisive mistakes, and lost both of these game. These two losses turned out to be the margin of defeat at Bonn.

Remember the time factor; it always comes into play in the end, and this match was no exception.

For more on time management at the World Chess Championship level, please view our notes on Fischer – Spassky 1972, which provides information that has been unavailable for 36 years.

Until now.

 

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The 1972 Fischer – Spassky Times for Game 3

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This article lists the times taken for the moves of Game 3 of the 1972 Fischer – Spassky World Chess Championship Match in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Click here for info on other games of this match.

Game 3, July 16-17, 1972

    Spassky        Fischer
    White          Black
 1. d4    (0:00)   Nf6      (0:09)
 2. c4             e6
 3. Nf3            c5
 4. d5             exd5
 5. cxd5           d6
 6. Nc3            g6
 7. Nd2            Nbd7
 8. e4    (0:11)   Bg7      (0:24)
 9. Be2   (0:15)   0-0      (0:24)
10. 0-0   (0:15)   Re8      (0:31)
11. Qc2   (0:17)   Nh5      (0:40)
12. Bxh5  (0:40)   gxh5     (0:40)
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3 Things I’ve learned about my wiener this year.

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I’ve received an automated notification that if I don’t contribute to the blog soon, I risk losing my rank as “commander”. I sure as hell don’t want to be demoted to a measly “admiral”.
Truth is I didn’t think I had anything relevant or topical to add lately, but that is unfair to the crackteam organization. There’s always something relevant if you think hard enough!

THREE THINGS I’VE LEARNED ABOUT MY WIENER THIS YEAR.

number1
No matter how sure you are you didn’t get any on your hands, never “handle yourself” after using Ben-Gay.
While not completely uninteresting, the cooling sensation will last for hours. It can be especially uncomfortable in the winter.

number2
No matter how careful you think you are, never use your crotch to secure your drilling site.
Sounds like an obvious one, yet there I was holding vinyl shutters on top of my legs while sitting on my front steps. I drilled about 20 holes before it happened.
As soon as I broke through, the drill bit drove into my pants and twisted up everything on it’s way down. While not breaking skin, I still had to reverse the drill to release the tool from my tool all while trying to maintain the look of “nothing to see here. I know what I’m doing” because the only thing worse than drilling through your crotch is looking like a fool to the neighborhood.
Moving on…

Number3
Sometimes it’s best to sit when you pee.
Follow with me here. It’s a complicated one.
I was trying to remove some stickers from a control panel. They are stuck on using a permanent sticky glue. It’s worse than sap when it gets on your hands. It’s meant to stick to anything and I had gotten some of it on my fingers.
Later I had to pee, so there I was standing over the toilet after I was done with the stickers. I pulled my johnson out long enough to make sure the aim was correct, then tried to let go. I TRIED to let go. But I wasn’t letting go. The glue was forcing me to maintain hold of… myself and I ended up spraying all over the walls of the “executive” bathroom while trying to shake myself free. So a 30 second wizz turned into a 15 minute scrub down.

Well that’s it for now. I’ll be sure to get back to you next year when I learn all kinds of great new things about my wiener.

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The 2008 Anand – Kramnik Times for Game 11

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This article lists the times taken by Anand and Kramnik for the moves of the 11th and final game of their 2008 World Chess Championship Match in Bonn.  Anand needed a draw to win the match; he got it today.

Game 11, October 29th, 2008

    Anand          Kramnik
    White          Black
 1. e4    (1:59)   c5   (1:58)
 2. Nf3   (1:59)   d6   (1:58)
 3. d4    (1:59)   cxd4 (1:58)
 4. Nxd4  (1:59)   Nf6  (1:58)
 5. Nc3   (1:59)   a6   (1:57)
 6. Bg5   (1:58)   e6   (1:57)
 7. f4    (1:58)   Qc7  (1:56)
 8. Bxf6  (1:56)   gxf6 (1:56)
 9. f5    (1:56)   Qc5  (1:51d)
10. Qd3   (1:42)   Nc6  (1:49)
11. Nb3   (1:38)   Qe5  (1:47d)
12. O-O-O (1:34)   exf5 (1:36d)
13. Qe3   (1:17)   Bg7  (1:11d)
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The 1972 Fischer – Spassky Times for Game 21

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This article lists the times taken for the moves of the 21st and final game of the World Chess Championship Match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer.  Fischer won this game to go 4 games ahead with only three to play.

For more games of the match, see the 1972 Fischer – Spassky Times Home Page

Game 21, August 31st-September 1st, 1972

    Spassky         Fischer
    White           Black
                    (ar)  (0:03)
 1. e4     (0:00)   c5    (0:04)
 2. Nf3    (0:01)   e6    (0:04)
 3. d4     (0:02)   cxd4  (0:04)
 4. Nxd4   (0:02)   a6    (0:04)
 5. Nc3    (0:04)   Nc6   (0:05)
 6. Be3    (0:05)   Nf6   (0:10)
 7. Bd3    (0:15)   d5    (0:14)
 8. exd5   (0:29)   exd5  (0:16)
 9. 0-0    (0:39)   Bd6   (0:19)
10. Nxc6   (0:53)   bxc6  (0:20)
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The 1972 Fischer – Spassky Times for Game 6

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This article lists the times taken by Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in the 6th game of their 1972 World Chess Championship Match in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Click here for info on other games of this match.

Game 6, July 23rd, 1972

    Fischer        Spassky
    White          Black
 1. c4    (0:08)   e6    (0:02)
 2. Nf3   (0:11)   d5    (0:03)
 3. d4    (0:11)   Nf6   (0:03)
 4. Nc3   (0:11)   Be7   (0:03)
 5. Bg5   (0:11)   0-0   (0:04)
 6. e3    (0:12)   h6    (0:04)
 7. Bh4   (0:13)   b6    (0:08)
 8. cxd5  (0:13)   Nxd5  (0:08)
 9. Bxe7  (0:14)   Qxe7  (0:08)
10. Nxd5  (0:14)   exd5  (0:08)
11. Rc1   (0:14)   Be6   (0:09)
12. Qa4   (0:14)   c5    (0:12)
13. Qa3   (0:14)   Rc8   (0:16)
14. Bb5   (0:15)   a6    (0:19)
15. dxc5  (0:19)   bxc5  (0:23)
16. 0-0   (0:20)   Ra7   (0:36)
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The 2008 Anand – Kramnik Times for Game 10

This article lists the times taken by Anand and Kramnik for their moves in the 10th game of their 2008 World Chess Championship Match in Bonn.

Kramnik keeps it alive with his first win.

Game 10, October 27th, 2008

    Kramnik        Anand
    White          Black
 1. d4    (1:58)   Nf6   (1:59)
 2. c4    (1:58)   e6    (1:59)
 3. Nc3   (1:58)   Bb4   (1:59)
 4. Nf3   (1:57)   c5    (1:58)
 5. g3    (1:57)   cxd4  (1:58)
 6. Nxd4  (1:56)   O-O   (1:58)
 7. Bg2   (1:56)   d5    (1:58)
 8. cxd5  (1:56)   Nxd5  (1:57)
 9. Qb3   (1:56d)  Qa5   (1:55)
10. Bd2   (1:54)   Nc6   (1:54)
11. Nxc6  (1:54)   bxc6  (1:54)
12. O-O   (1:54)   Bxc3  (1:54)
13. bxc3  (1:54)   Ba6   (1:54)
14. Rfd1  (1:53)   Qc5   (1:53)
15. e4    (1:53)   Bc4   (1:53)
16. Qa4   (1:52)   Nb6   (1:53)
17. Qb4   (1:52)   Qh5   (1:53)
18. Re1   (1:52d)  c5    (1:38)
19. Qa5   (1:51)   Rfc8  (1:34)
20. Be3   (1:51d)  Be2   (1:20)
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The 2008 Anand – Kramnik Times for Game 9

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This article lists the times taken by the players in Game 9  of the 2008 World Chess Championship Match between Anand and Kramnik in Bonn.

Game 9, October 26th, 2008

    Anand          Kramnik
    White          Black
 1. d4    (1:59)   d5    (1:59)
 2. c4    (1:59)   e6    (1:59)
 3. Nf3   (1:59)   Nf6   (1:59)
 4. Nc3   (1:58)   c6    (1:59)
 5. Bg5   (1:58)   h6    (1:59)
 6. Bh4   (1:58)   dxc4  (1:58)
 7. e4    (1:58)   g5    (1:58)
 8. Bg3   (1:58)   b5    (1:58)
 9. Be2   (1:58)   Bb7   (1:58)
10. Qc2   (1:57)   Nbd7  (1:57)
11. Rd1   (1:57)   Bb4   (1:47d)
12. Ne5   (1:49)   Qe7   (1:43d)
13. O-O   (1:40)   Nxe5  (1:35)
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The 2008 Anand – Kramnik Times for Game 8

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This article lists the times taken for the moves of the 8th game of the 2008 World Chess Championship between Anand and Kramnik in Bonn, Germany.

Game 8, October 24th, 2008

    Kramnik        Anand
    White          Black
 1. d4    (1:59)   Nf6   (1:59)
 2. c4    (1:59)   e6    (1:59)
 3. Nf3   (1:59)   d5    (1:59)
 4. Nc3   (1:58)   dxc4  (1:59)
 5. e4    (1:58)   Bb4   (1:59)
 6. Bg5   (1:57)   c5    (1:58)
 7. Bxc4  (1:57)   cxd4  (1:58)
 8. Nxd4  (1:56)   Qa5   (1:58)
 9. Bb5+  (1:54)   Bd7   (1:57)
10. Bxf6  (1:53)   Bxb5  (1:57)
11. Ndxb5 (1:44d)  gxf6  (1:56)
12. O-O   (1:39)   Nc6   (1:56)
13. a3    (1:27d)  Bxc3  (1:55)
14. Nxc3  (1:25d)  Rg8   (1:43d)
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