Dos Hermanas 1996

Kramnik and Topalov finish level in a world-class field
May 1996 · Dos Hermanas, Spain
Shared first (Kramnik, Topalov) — 6/9
Event Index 45 GAMES

Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov finished level at Dos Hermanas 1996 with 6/9. Both went unbeaten in the complete ten-player, 45-game round robin, half a point ahead of Viswanathan Anand and Garry Kasparov.

A field drawn from the world elite

The field included Kramnik, Topalov, Anand, Kasparov, Miguel Illescas, Boris Gelfand, Gata Kamsky, Vassily Ivanchuk, Judit Polgár, and Alexei Shirov. Every player met the other nine once.

That meant 45 games over 9 rounds.

Shared first, with local tie-break precedence

Kramnik and Topalov each scored three wins and six draws. Anand and Kasparov followed on 5½, with Anand recording four wins and Kasparov three.

Contemporary reports agree on the 6/9 tie: the Los Angeles Times describes shared first prize, while El País names Kramnik first on the local coefficient. The archive keeps the equal score and may note the tie-break precedence.

The games

All 45 games are here: 20 decisive and 25 drawn. The standings worked out from these games match the published crosstable.

Final standings

6/9
Shared first (Kramnik, Topalov) — 6/9
# Player Score Record
=1 Kramnik, Vladimir 6/9 +3 -0 =6 games
=1 Topalov, Veselin 6/9 +3 -0 =6 games
=3 Anand, Viswanathan 5½/9 +4 -2 =3 games
=3 Kasparov, Garry 5½/9 +3 -1 =5 games
5 Illescas Cordoba, Miguel Angel 4½/9 +1 -1 =7 games
=6 Gelfand, Boris 4/9 +3 -4 =2 games
=6 Kamsky, Gata 4/9 +1 -2 =6 games
8 Ivanchuk, Vassily 3½/9 +1 -3 =5 games
=9 Shirov, Alexei 3/9 +1 -4 =4 games
=9 Polgar, Judit 3/9 +0 -3 =6 games

Cross Table

Player 12345678910
1 Kramnik, Vladimir ½ 1 1 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½
2 Topalov, Veselin ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 ½ ½ 1
3 Anand, Viswanathan 0 ½ ½ 1 1 0 1 1 ½
4 Kasparov, Garry 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1
5 Illescas Cordoba, Miguel Angel ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½
6 Gelfand, Boris ½ 0 0 0 ½ 1 1 0 1
7 Kamsky, Gata ½ 0 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½
8 Ivanchuk, Vassily 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½
9 Shirov, Alexei ½ ½ 0 0 0 1 ½ 0 ½
10 Polgar, Judit ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½

Each cell shows the row player's recorded results against the column player. ● = same player.

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