Peter Leko Regains Dortmund Title
By Arvind Aaron

Peter Leko, the 1979-born Hungarian grandmaster from Szeged won the Sparkassen Chess Meeting on July 6, 2008 with a clear 4.5/7 score at Dortmund, Germany.

Leko had at best been the challenger to V. Kramnik's world title in 2004. Regaining the title, Leko played at 2790 and would be gaining Elo from this undefeated plus two (won against Ivanchuk and Gustafsson) score.

Former world champion Kramnik had a poor event. The king of Dortmund was in poor form. In the final round he was defeated by Ivanchuk. Kramnik improvedblack's play from his defeat against Naiditch from a Petroff but made a 36th move mistake to lose. The event saw only two Petroff games and both were by Kramnik and both were shot down. Kramnik has a lot of work in the Petroff before the Bonn match this October 13.

The results (round seven): P. Leko drew with Arkady Naiditch, V. Ivanchuk bt V. Kramnik, I. Nepomiachtchi drew with J. Gustafsson, Van Wely lost to S. Mamedyarov.

Final placings: 1 P. Leko (Hun) 4.5/7, 2-5 V. Ivanchuk (Ukr), I. Nepomniachtchi (Rus), S. Mamedyarov (Aze), Jan Gustafsson (Ger) 4 each, 6 A. Naiditch (Ger) 3.5, 7 V. Kramnik (Rus) 3, 8 Loek Van Wely (Ned) 1.

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