Kramnik on downhill?

I'm sure you're all wondering what's happening to this guy. I ask myself the same. The only human who defeated Garry Kasparov in the match is now getting beaten tourney after tourney. Latest in the row of poor performances was Mtel Masters in Sofia when Vladimir scored 4/10 only to share the last place with Mickey Adams. It`s remarkable that this "tough-to-beat-guy" (and World champion at the same time) made some amazing blunders and lost 4 games in such a short event. In the interview followed this tourney he said he never took a proper break after his match with Peter Leko. We`ll be back on that interview soon...

For now two games from Sofia Masters:

Round 7
White: Anand, V
Black: Kramnik, V
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. O-O Be7 8.c4 Nb4 9. Be2 O-O 10. Nc3 Bf5 11. a3 Nxc3 12. bxc3 Nc6 13. Re1 Re8 14. cxd5Qxd5 15. Bf4 Rac8 16. Qc1 Na5 17. c4 Qe4 18. Bd1 Qd3 19. Re3 Qxc4 20. Re5 1-0

Round 10
White: Kramnik, V
Black: Topalov, V
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e6 7. f3 b5 8.Qd2 b4 9. Nce2 e5 10. Nb3 Nc6 11. c4 Be7 12. Ng3 g6 13. Bd3 Nd7 14. Rd1 O-O15. Qf2 a5 16. O-O a4 17. Nc1 Nc5 18. Bb1 Qc7 19. Nce2 Be6 20. Bh6 Rfe8 21.Nf5 Bxc4 22. Ne3 Ba6 23. f4 exf4 24. Bxf4 Ne5 25. Nd5 Qa7 26. Bxe5 dxe5 27.Kh1 Bg5 28. Nxb4 Bc4 29. Rfe1 Qb7 30. Nd5 Qxb2 31. Nc7 Ne6 32. Nxe8 Rxe8 33.Rf1 Rf8 34. Nc1 Qxb1 0-1