indeed, me too,black looked certain to win at one stage

Amazing isn't it Ron. Wow...when I play an endgame like that I'll let you know!!

one of the best end games I've seen,John, thanks for sharing it

Thanks Attila. Even exchanging Queens, which Kramnik did, would not have saved him. The Bishop is a monster and is a bit like Anand's Bishop on b7 when he defeated Aronian in the Tata Steel this week. Superb endgame by Kramnik :)

Nice endgame play! Maybe Shirov needed to exchange queens on e5, to prevent his pawn to be isolated on the d-file. The active pieces ate pawns after pawn and the b-pawn won the game.