The FIDE World Cup is a knockout tournament which is being played in Tromso, Norway, and which concludes on September 3. It began with 128 players representing some of the finest on the planet.
Notable absentees were Anand and Carlsen who are in fact preparing for their world championship clash in November. The winner and runner-up of the World Cup 2013 will qualify for the Candidates Tournament of the next World Championship cycle.
A number of strong players were eliminated leaving Vladimir Kramnik and Dmitri Andreikin to contest the final of the rigorous World Cup. Kramnik annihilated Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Andreikin disposed of Evgeny Tomashevsky.
Despite playing Black, Kramnik played confidently, quickly and aggressively and immediately took advantage of
