Life Time Games and Scores Kramnik vs Anand

Kramnik has a head to head edge over Anand in the Classical games. Anand is clearly much stronger in Rapid games.

Classical Games
51 games, 41 draws
Kramnik +2 (6 wins, 4 losses)

Rapid
46 games, 34 draws
Anand + 8 (10 wins, 2 losses)

Blitz
8 games, 4 draws

Blindfold
13 games, 6 draws
Kramnik +1 (4 wins, 3 losses)

Advanced Chess
8 games, 7 draws
Kramnik +1 (1 win)

Update after Round 7

Results of round 7

Aronian, Levon - Radjabov, Teimour 1-0 King's Indian Defence
Ivanchuk, Vassily - Kramnik, Vladimir ½-½ Petroff's Defence
Topalov, Veselin - Carlsen, Magnus ½-½ Ruy Lopez Closed
Adams, Michael - Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar ½-½ Ruy Lopez Modern Steinitz
Polgar, Judit - Anand, Viswanathan 0-1 Sicilian Najdorf Variation
Gelfand, Boris - Lékó, Peter ½-½ Catalan
Eljanov, Pavel - Van Wely, Loek * Slav Defence (Game is still going on)

Standings after Round 7

Magnus Carlsen - 5
Vladimir Kramnik - 4.5
Levon Aronian - 4.5

Its Kamsky vs Topalov

Gata Kamsky won the World Cup Chess tournament 2007 being played at Khanty Mansiysk. What was expected to be a fiery battle in the end fizzled out into a draw by the 35th move. However, Kamsky was the one bound to break into a smile as he won $ 120 000. Shirov managed $ 80 000 in the end.

Shirov did provoke Kamsky to fight a complicated battle. He offered a knight in the middle game but Kamsky declined it with his customary cool way and went on to sacrifice an exchange and then advance the dangerous e-pawn. The draw was agreed when Shirov could no longer prevent the perpetual thanks to Kamsky's queen.

Kamsky now meets Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria for a chance to meet the winner of Vishwanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik. The eventual winner is to be considered the absolute World Champion.

Kamsky holds on to his lead against Shirov

Gata Kamsky of USA held on to his lead against Alexei Shirov of Spain in the finals of World Cup Chess 2007 being held at Khanty Mansiysk. The final is a four game affair with normal time, then rapid, blitz games to break a tie.

Today's drawn game:

The winner here meets Veselin Topalov for a chance to challenge the winner of Anand and Kramnik.

The results so far are as follows:

Game 1 - Draw after a brief struggle. Shirov cannot break the solid Kamsky's defence.

Game 2- Kamsky wins a thrilling game which could have swung either way. Shirov had chances only if Kamsky made minor errors but Kamsky displayed his strength of will to prevail

Game 3- Is again a draw. Shirov tries for 41 moves before the peace treaty is signed.

Tomorrow, Shirov must win with black pieces to tie the match and move to the tie-breaks. On current form, Kamsky is expected to at least draw and hang to his lead and hence win the title, but with the Alexei "Fire on the board" Shirov, you never can be very sure.