Melody Amber 2007 Final 
Kramnik Campeon aqui jugando con Vallejo en la Ronda 12 Standing Final Combinado
1. Kramnik, Vladimir 15.5
2. Anand, Viswanathan 13.5
3. Ivanchuk, Vassily 13.0
4. Aronian, Levon 12.0
Svidler, Peter
6. Gelfand, Boris 11.5
Morozevich, Alexander
8. Carlsen, Magnus 10.5
Leko, Peter
10. Radjabov, Teimour 9.0
11. Van Wely, Loek 6.5
Vallejo, Francisco
Final Standings Blindfold
1. Kramnik, Vladimir 9.0
2. Gelfand, Boris 7.0
Morozevich, Alexander
4. Ivanchuk, Vassily 6.5
Svidler, Peter
6. Aronian, Levon 6.0
7. Anand, Viswanathan 5.0
Radjabov, Teimour
9. Carlsen, Magnus 4.0
Leko, Peter
11. Van Wely, Loek 3.5
12. Vallejo, Francisco 2.5
Final Standings Rapid
1. Anand, Viswanathan 8.5
2. Carlsen, Magnus 6.5
Ivanchuk, Vassily
Kramnik, Vladimir
Leko, Peter
6. Aronian, Levon 6.0
7. Svidler, Peter 5.5
8. Gelfand, Boris 4.5
Morozevich, Alexander
10. Radjabov, Teimour 4.0
Vallejo, Francisco
12. Van Wely, Loek 3.0
Thursday March 29 Round XI
12.30 Blind Leko-Radjabov 1/2-1/2
Carlsen-Van Wely 1/2-1/2
Svidler-Morozevich 0-1
14.00 Blind Gelfand-Anand 1/2-1/2
Aronian-Ivanchuk 1-0
Vallejo-Kramnik 1/2-1/2
15.45 Rapid Radjabov-Leko 0-1
Van Wely-Carlsen 0-1
Morozevich-Svidler 0-1
17.15 Rapid Anand-Gelfand 1/2-1/2
Ivanchuk-Aronian 1/2-1/2
Kramnik-Vallejo 1/2-1/2
Vladimir Kramnik es el ganador de 16th Amber Blindfold and Rapid Tournament. en las ultimas rondas el campeon del mundo hizo 2 tablaqs con Paco Vallejo para terminar 2 puntos arriba de Vishy Anand.
Kramnik a ganado este prestigioso torneo 6 veces en 1996, 1998 (compartiendo con Shirov), 1999, 2001 (compartiendo con Topalov) y 2004 (compartiendo con Morozevich).
Kramnik’s tuvo el segundo mejor desempeño en la modalidad de blindfold obteniendo 9 de 11 quedando en segundolugar del record de Morozevich el año pasado .
En la Partidas rapidas fue para Anand. El gran maestro indu termino con 8½ puntos de 11, 2 puntos arriba de sus mas cercanos perseguidores los maestros, Carlsen, Ivanchuk, Kramnik y Leko.
The blindfold game between Peter Leko and Teimour Radjabov featured another Schliemann-Jaenisch variation of the Ruy Lopez. Leko tried to remember if his moves were theoretical or not, but barely got the time as his opponent blitzed out his opening moves. Apparently he knew what he was doing, as he comfortably liquidated to an equal ending. After 22…c5 Leko believed that neither side had real winning chances, an assessment that was confirmed by the result after 42 moves.
Leko won the rapid game and he was happy to finish the tournament with such a nice victory. The game followed the blindfold game between Carlsen and Leko earlier in the tournament. On that occasion Leko already knew the novelty that he sprang on Radjabov, 12…exd5, (after all he prepared it five years ago!) but was reluctant to use it in a blindfold game where he might mess up later. Apart from that he had found out in the meantime that this move had already been played in a recent game, so that there was no reason to shun it one more time. As Leko put it, ‘After this move Black has a nice game and in fact I do not see how White can avoid loss of material.’
Magnus Carlsen started his blindfold game against Loek van Wely with an unusual request. To understand what he was asking we should explain that in the blindfold games the players have a choice. If you are playing with the black pieces you can ‘turn around the board’ and play with the black pieces at the bottom of the screen. Some players don’t care about this possibility, others find it more convenient to have the pieces just like they would have them ‘in real life’. Magnus was the first player ever to ask to play with the white pieces at the top of the screen although he was White! In the game Carlsen may soon have gotten the idea that turning the board around and continuing with black would not be such a bad plan. The opening didn’t bring him much and after 16…e5 Van Wely was very much OK. Still, he expected nothing more than a draw until Carlsen started to play carelessly and dropped a pawn. Nevertheless the outcome was a draw. Perhaps Black would have had better chances had he played 27…Qb7 instead of 27…Qd7, as Ljubomir Ljubojevic told Van Wely after the game.
Despite playing with the black pieces in the rapid game Carlsen soon found himself in a very comfortable position. Although he wasn’t really informed about the subtleties after 8.Qc2 he easily found his way. In his opinion White should have played 15.Ndb5, as after the move Van Wely played, 15.Bh3, Black just ended up with an extra pawn and a technically winning position. Carlsen still had to acquit himself of a lengthy technical task, but after 56 moves the point was his.
The blindfold game between Peter Svidler and Alexander Morozevich was a sharp French Defence in which the white player surprised his opponent with 12.Nd1, a move that ‘Moroz’ thought too passive in a position with kings on opposite flanks. After 13…g5 it was clear which side the initiative was on. Perhaps White should have pushed f5 to keep the g-file from being opened, and instead of 17.Ne3 he would definitely have been better off after 17.Nf2. After 18.exf6 the end came quickly. With the sobering 19…Rxg2+ Morozevich decided the game in his favour.
Svidler typified his win in the rapid game as a case of ‘in the land of the blind’. With 8.Bd3 Morozevich deviated from his game against Leko in Morelia-Linares where he went 8.c3. And after 13.Ng5 he had a pleasant advantage which he could have cemented with 15.Be3. But instead, after a five-minute think Morozevich played 15.Ne6, which in fact loses material by force. According to Svidler the critical line was 19.0-0 d4 20.Ne4 d3 21.Qc4 b5 and Black wins the central knight. Morozevich tried to fight back, but once Svidler got his pieces coordinated White soon succumbed.
In the blindfold game between Boris Gelfand and Vishy Anand, Black introduced an early novelty that gave him an equal game. With 9…c5 Anand improved on a game Gelfand-Ivanchuk (Spanish League 2006) where Black played 9…Bb7 and White obtained a pleasant game. In the phase that followed Anand played very ‘natural’, as Gelfand put it, and equalized easily. After only 19 moves the players agreed a draw. In the final position Black can play 19…Nb8 and he has no problems whatsoever. At least that was the conclusion immediately after the game. Later in the afternoon Anand informed Gelfand that he should have played 19…Ne8 20.Rxd7 Nb8 and Black wins material and should be close to winning!
The rapid game was a typical case of vacuum-cleaner chess. One set of pieces after the other left the board and when after 22 moves they found themselves in an ending that didn’t look too exciting they agreed a draw.
In the longest game of the blindfold session, Levon Aronian defeated Vasily Ivanchuk. In a Catalan Opening the Armenian grandmaster got pleasant play, but to his mind Black would have had a defendable position if on 24.Qf4 he had played 24…fxe6 instead of 24…Bb7. ‘Now the position was very favourable for me and very easy to play with his stupid bishop’, Aronian summarized the essence of the remainder of the game. Which he won after 67 moves.
The rapid game ended in a draw, but this time Aronian was lost. He repeated the opening of his black game against Radjabov and didn’t really know why. ‘I’m a stubborn donkey’, Aronian quipped, ‘I played a losing line and stayed unpunished.’ His mistake was 30…a5 and the moment where Ivanchuk could have played better was move 37 where instead of 37.Kb3, 37.Ba6 was winning.
In the blindfold game between Paco Vallejo and Vladimir Kramnik obviously all eyes were on the World Champion. Would he try to equal the blindfold record that Alexander Morozevich set last year (9½ out of 11) or would he play it safe and simply secure tournament victory? Funnily, Kramnik explained after the game had been drawn that before the game he had been satisfied with a draw, but that in the final position he was already better and could have played on with 23…d4. Why he didn’t he couldn’t say exactly. The main reason was that he found it hard to motivate himself when overall victory was within reach with a draw.
The same applied to the rapid game that wasn’t too exciting. Kramnik got a slight pull with the white pieces, but Vallejo was up to the task and defended well. Kramnik ceased his efforts after 36 moves and then it was time to celebrate!
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