[Event "WCh Playoffs"]
[Site "Elista RUS"]
[Date "2006.10.13"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Kramnik,V"]
[Black "Topalov,V"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D47"]
[WhiteElo "2743"]
[BlackElo "2813"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2006.10.13"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 b5 8. Be2
Bb7 9. O-O Be7 10. e4 b4 11. e5 bxc3 12. exf6 Bxf6 13. bxc3 c5 14. dxc5 Nxc5
$146 {
Topalov hits Kramnik with a novelty and a very good one too at this time rate.}
(14... O-O {has been seen before.}) 15. Bb5+ Kf8 16. Qxd8+ $1 {Kramnik is the
best player in the world without queens on. He gets a position he is totally
comfortable with.} Rxd8 17. Ba3 Rc8 18. Nd4 Be7 19. Rfd1 $1 a6 $5 {
The start of a very ambitious plan that Kramnik defuses brilliantly.} (19...
Ne4 $1 {and the game would probably have ended in a draw.}) 20. Bf1 Na4 $6 (
20... Ne4 {again was probably better.}) 21. Rab1 $1 {Either Topalov missed
this, or more likely missed its power. He has to start to be careful.} Be4 22.
Rb3 $1 Bxa3 23. Rxa3 Nc5 24. Nb3 $1 {Clarifys the advantage} Ke7 25. Rd4 $1 {
Putting the bishop out of commission.} Bg6 (25... Nxb3 26. axb3 Bb7) 26. c4 Rc6
27. Nxc5 Rxc5 28. Rxa6 Rb8 29. Rd1 $1 Rb2 30. Ra7+ Kf6 31. Ra1 $1 {
Before white pushes the a-pawn he stops black jumping behind it.} Rf5 32. f3
Re5 33. Ra3 $1 {Another move that reduces black's counter play.} Rc2 34. Rb3
Ra5 35. a4 Ke7 36. Rb5 Ra7 37. a5 Kd6 38. a6 Kc7 39. c5 Rc3 40. Raa5 Rc1 41.
Rb3 Kc6 42. Rb6+ Kc7 43. Kf2 Rc2+ 44. Ke3 {
White probably is well on the way to winning this game.} Rxc5 $4 {With things
going very badly wrong Topalov blunders horrifically to end things instantly.}
45. Rb7+ {White has won a whole rook.} 1-0

