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Vladimir Kramnik became the winner of the Linares tournament.

The 21st Linares tournament took place February 19th - March 5th.
The event is a 7 player double round robin category 20 event (ave 2731). Participants: Garry Kasparov 2830 RUS, Vladimir Kramnik 2777 RUS, Alexei Shirov 2736 ESP, Veselin Topalov 2735 BUL, Peter Leko 2722 HUN, Paco Vallejo 2663 ESP and Teimour Radjabov 2656 AZE.
The rounds start at 2-30 p.m. GMT
Schedule:
February 18th - draw of lots.
Round 1 - Feb. 19th
Final Round 14 - March 5th
Rest days: Feb. 24th and March 1st.
Results:

1st round Vallejo - Kramnik ½ Shirov - Kasparov ½ Radjabov - Leko 0-1		2nd round Kasparov - Radjabov ½ Kramnik - Shirov ½ Topalov - Vallejo ½		3rd round Leko - Kasparov ½ Radjabov - Kramnik ½ Shirov - Topalov ½		4th round Kramnik - Leko ½ Topalov - Radjabov ½ Vallejo - Shirov ½
5th round Kasparov - Kramnik ½ Leko - Topalov ½ Radjabov - Vallejo ½		6th round Topalov - Kasparov ½ Vallejo - Leko ½ Shirov - Radjabov 1-0		7th round Leko - Shirov 1-0 Kasparov - Vallejo 1-0 Kramnik - Topalov 1-0		8th round Kramnik - Vallejo ½ Kasparov - Shirov ½ Leko - Radjabov ½
9th round Radjabov - Kasparov ½ Shirov - Kramnik ½ Vallejo - Topalov ½		10th round Topalov - Shirov 1-0 Kramnik - Radjabov ½ Kasparov - Leko ½		11th round Leko - Kramnik 0-1 Radjabov - Topalov ½ Shirov - Vallejo ½		12th round Vallejo - Radjabov 0-1 Topalov - Leko ½ Kramnik - Kasparov ½
13th round Kasparov - Topalov ½ Leko - Vallejo ½ Radjabov - Shirov 1-0		14th round Shirov - Leko ½ Vallejo - Kasparov ½ Topalov - Kramnik ½

Attention! We give online annotations by Saint-Petersburg grandmasters .
GM Konstantin Aseev annotates the games of the /Java/2004/Lin1/on.html"> 1st round
GM Mark Taimanov annotates the games of the /Java/2004/Lin2/on.html"> 2nd round
GM Konstantin Aseev annotates the games of the /Java/2004/Lin3/on.html"> 3rd round
GM Mark Taimanov annotates the games of the /Java/2004/Lin4/on.html"> 4th round
GM Konstantin Aseev annotates the games of the /Java/2004/Lin5/on.html"> 5th round
GM Sergey Ionov annotates the games of the /Java/2004/Lin6/on.html"> 6th round
WIM Irina Sudakova annotates the games of the /Java/2004/Lin7/on.html"> 7th round
GM Sergey Ionov annotates the games of the /Java/2004/Lin8/on.html"> 8th round
WIM Irina Sudakova annotates the games of the /Java/2004/Lin9/on.html"> 9th round
GM Sergey Ionov annotates the games of the /Java/2004/Lin10/on.html"> 10th round
GM Mark Taimanov annotates the games of the /Java/2004/Lin11/on.html"> 11th round
GM Evgeny Alekseev annotates the games of the /Java/2004/Lin12/on.html"> 12th round
GM Sergey Ivanov annotates the games of the /Java/2004/Lin13/on.html"> 13th round
Annotations of the games of the /Archive/Java/2004/Lin14/on.html"> 14th round
Final Standings :
1 Kramnik 7.0
2 Leko 6.5
3 Kasparov 6.5
4 Radjabov 6.0
5 Topalov 6.0
6 Shirov 5.0
7 Vallejo 5.0
/Java/2004/Linares/linares.zip"> Games in PGN
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