After his 4.5-3.5 win over Peter Leko the world chess champion, Vlad Kramnik, continued by scoring in game one in his match against Levon Aronian in Erevan. Then came a drastic reversal. Aronian won three in a row, twice demolishing the Russian's favourite Slav Defence and taking the series 4-2. Game four was impressive, especially at the rapid time limit of 25 minutes for the game plus 10 seconds for each move. The sharp 7 g4 aims to ...

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