#Chess #Kramnik #Morozevich

This game shows a mind boggling positional sacrifice from Vladimir Kramnik. The reward for Kramnik's sacrifice can be seen only 9 moves later.
There are a lot of variations that did not happen in the game which we will look at in this video.

Game details
Vladimir Kramnik vs Alexander Morozevich
World Championship Tournament (2007), Mexico City MEX, rd 2, Sep-14
Catalan Opening: Open Defense (E04)

Notations
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.d4 dxc4 5.Bg2 a6 6.Ne5 Bb4+ 7.Nc3
Nd5 8.O-O O-O 9.Qc2 b5 10.Nxd5 exd5 11.b3 c6 12.e4 f6 13.exd5
fxe5 14.bxc4 exd4 15.dxc6 Be6 16.cxb5 d3 17.c7 Qd4 18.Qa4 Nd7
19.Be3 Qd6 20.Bxa8 Rxa8 21.Bf4 Qf8 22.b6 Ne5 23.Bxe5 Qf3
24.Qd1 Qe4 25.b7 Rf8 26.c8=Q Bd5 27.f3 1-0

Full game
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