Autor/-in: Vladimir Kramnik

Since he burst onto the world chess scene in 1992, displaying a maturity of play far beyond his sixteen years, Vladimir Kramnik had been tipped as a future World Champion. This forecast was proven accurate when in October 2000 he defeated Garry Kasparov in the Brain Games World Championship. Lakov Damsky is an experienced radio and TV commentator and author of several books for Everyman - The Art of Defence in Chess (with Lev Polugayevsky 1996), Attack with Mikhail Tal (with Mikhail Tal 1994), The Heavy Pieces in Action (1997)