Karsten Müller on the 1st match game Kramnik-Deep Fritz
28 December 2006 16:11 PM | Last modified: 15:50
During the Christmas celebration in our chessclub HSK I asked the well-known endgame expert & grandmaster Karsten Müller whether he would be interested to occasionally & spontaneously contribute to the interesting project Doggers-schaak (about which he had read in one of the German chess magazines!). Müller is the author of Fundamental Chess Endings and Secrets of Pawn Endings (both together with Frank Lamprecht). Below you find his first contribution: how Kramnik could have beaten Deep Fritz in their first match game.
(The analysis was partly published earlier at Chesscafe.)











Karsten, Mig has recently analysed the position as well (with some help of Kasparov!) and they conclude that after your mainline 43.a4 (though Mig doesn’t mention your analysis!), Black can draw with the interesting move 43…h5!? (Instead of Feist’s 43…Bd8).
See http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/2007/01/dfvk_game_1_revisited.htm#more
for the details…
What do you think?