The worst blunder by a reigning world champion

Deep Fritz vs Kramnik, 2006 ( 1-0 ), Increible error de Vladimir Kramnik en su partida contra Deep Fritz , seguro que todavia se acuerda de el y del ridiculo que hizo......

Incredible mistake of Vladimir Kramnik in his game against Deep Fritz, it is sure that he still remembers of this ridiculous blunder !!

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• kramnik
• chess
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• blunder

[TamaNewb]

46 people have no idea how unlikely it is for a GM to miss a mate in 1.

[Cheisu7]

For those who can't find the blunder... The very last two moves: 34... Qe3??? (Kramnik's major blunder) and then Deep Fritz responded with 35... Qh7 mate.

[XUltimateSinX]

Let's ignore the fact that he made the blunder and see what he was thinking when he made that move.

By what I can see (I may be wrong), is that any other move apart from Qh7# being made, wins for black. If the queen exchange is not made, black wins with a back rank mate. If it is however exchanged, black wins the pawn race and wins the game. White can get the queen first, however on the next move a1=Q+, Qe1 ... Qxe1#. The king wins the pawn if white tries to prevent this with a knight check.

[breakdancerQ]

mama kiti

[Limboman1988]

The king of all blunders!

[GetMeThere1]

Wow, the hair on the back of even MY head stood up on the knight move--i.e., I wouldn't have missed it, and would have seen the imminent danger of the knight poised to move where it did. And I mostly suck at chess.

[thezidana]

Kg8 best move

[kikook222]

@TamaNewb Or maybe they hate it due to a GM missing a mate lol. Eitherway nobody's perfect and I think it's a morale boost to see a GM make such a mistake showing beginners there's no shame in it.

[Ravde100]

@Jmaculata I'm a bit confused. How do you not see that it is a big mistake... he lost to a simple mate in 1.

[Jmaculata]

@Apoic123 honestly when you make a statement like that you should justify. I don't see how kramniks mindset was to aim for material gain nor do I see why it is a big mistake

[halonone]

@maxpower789z Ha. I wondered the same thing. I do it all the time, it doesn't seem to improve or hurt my game as far as I can tell.