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Sam Trenholme wrote on Sat, Sep 23, 2006 03:29 PM UTC:
This is supposibly most of the first game of the match.  I can't get the
game from the official site at http://www.worldchess2006.com/ but someone
posted this over at http://chessgames.com

[Event 'World Championship Match']
[Site 'Elista']
[Date '2006.09.23']
[Round '1']
[White 'GM Kramnik, Vladimir(RUS)']
[Black 'GM Topalov, Veselin(BUL)']
[Result '*']
[WhiteElo '2743']
[BlackElo '2813']
[Annotator 'Holger_Lieske']
[PlyCount '83']
[EventDate '2006.??.??']

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. g3 dxc4 5. Bg2 Bb4+ 6. Bd2 a5 7. Qc2 Bxd2+
8. Qxd2 c6 9. a4 b5 10. axb5 cxb5 11. Qg5 O-O 12. Qxb5 Ba6 13. Qa4 Qb6 14.
O-O Qxb2 15. Nbd2 Bb5 16. Nxc4 Bxa4 17. Nxb2 Bb5 18. Ne5 Ra7 19. Bf3 Nbd7
20. Nec4 Rb8 21. Rfb1 g5 22. e3 g4 23. Bd1 Bc6 24. Rc1 Be4 25. Na4 Rb4 26.
Nd6 Bf3 27. Bxf3 gxf3 28. Nc8 Ra8 29. Ne7+ Kg7 30. Nc6 Rb3 31. Nc5 Rb5 32.
h3 Nxc5 33. Rxc5 Rb2 34. Rg5+ Kh6 35. Rgxa5 Rxa5 36. Nxa5 Ne4 37. Rf1 Nd2
38. Rc1 Ne4 39. Rf1 f6 40. Nc6 Nd2 41. Rd1 Ne4 42. Rf1 * 

The position appears to be drawn.

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