Vladimir Kramnik And The Berlin Defense

Before the 2000 world championship match between Vladimir Kramnik and Garry Kasparov, the latter had been champion since long before I started playing chess. Kasparov dominated the chess world and seemed unbeatable. I naturally assumed that he would defeat his challenger pretty easily. Kramnik was obviously

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