My Path to the Top - Kramnik "E104W" In recent years leading grandmasters

In recent years leading grandmasters such as Alexey Shirov and Emil Sutovsky have injected the Four Knights with numerous fresh ideas and changed its peaceful reputation

each exercise has an easier version on a 5x5 board

yet sufficiently challenging for use by stronger players

The Slav has a well-deserved reputation as one of Black's strongest answers to 1 d4

My Path to the Top - Kramnik "E104W" In recent years leading grandmastersBorn in 1975 in Tuapse on the shores of the Black Sea, Vladimir Kramnik studied at the Botvinnik Kasparov chess school. At 16 he was included in the Russian Olympiad team and scored a sensational 8. 5 9, the best result at the Olympiad. After that followed a string of great tournament results, culminating in a world championship challenge. In 2000 Kramnik played the chess legend Garry Kasparov and beat him to take the title, which he successfully