London Candidates Tournament 2013

London Candidates Tournament 2013

 



The Kramnikian Re1
and the story continues!




Already the positional hardcore move Re1,which is best known as Kramnikian Re1,
has found it's advocates!

A close friend of mine Papadimitriou Loukas

and a very strong player,in a crucial game for the first place of a local tournament, 

used the Kramnikian Re1 with success!

In the following position that arose
 in the aforementioned game


Ambelokipoi Tournament 2013
Papadimitriou -Sideris

White played Rd1 - Re1!



(The Kramnikian Re1 in it's moment of glory again!)

as Loukas mentioned to me in a phone interview right after the game 

"Had I not known how Kramnik played, I would most probably not have found Re1!"

" The idea is to protect against the fork on c3, to secure the pawn on e3
and to prepare the central advance e3-e4!"

Even Kramnik praised Loukas for his move:

"I expected Loukas to find this move.I am really proud of him!"

Another friend of ours 

and a very strong player too

Zografos Achileas agreed:
" Indeed, Re1 is a very strong move here!"


in a few moves White won
because of a terrible blunder by the opponent.

For those who cannot remember, Re1 is the move that Kramnik played 

in this position

London Candidates Tournament 2013
Kramnik - Radjabov 






Ambelokipoi Tournament 2013
Papadimitriou -Sideris