Kramnik vs Anand Game 5

Vladimir Kramnik(2772) vs Vishwanathan Anand(2783)
Game 5 today
World Chess Championship Match, October 2008
Bonn, Germany

Match Score

V Anand 2.5 - V Kramnik 1.5

Kramnik 0.5, 0.5, 0, 0.5
V.Anand 0.5, 0.5, 1, 0.5

Kramnik opens with white in the 5th game of the World Chess Championship match. Both the players have displayed high quality of play so far. Anand has shown something more than just preparation, and that is a lot of heart and of course, good old preparation.

Expect Kramnik to go all out from here on. How about 1. e4 from Kramnik? ;-) A 12 game match is unfortunately very short for these two players and there is no choice but to play aggressively throughout. Anand cannot relax and try to draw the rest of the games. This approach usually boomerangs. In addition to this, Anand has lost matches where he lead, for example, against Kamsky and Karpov. And Kramnik has won after falling behind initially against Leko and Topalov.

We will post analysis on game 5 live with annotations on this site.