World Chess Championship

Reunified title (2006 onwards)

VISWANATHAN ANAND THE NEW WORLD CHAMPION 2007
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After several near misses, Anand won the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2000 for the first time after defeating Alexei Shirov 3.5 - 0.5 in the final match held at Tehran, thereby becoming the first Indian to win that title.
He lost the title when Ruslan Ponomariov won the FIDE knockout tournament in 2002.
Vishwanathan Anand was born in Madras, India the 11th of December of 1969; he obtained the GM title at 16 years old.

World Chess Championship 2007
The World Chess Championship 2007 was held in Mexico City, from September 12, 2007 to September 30, 2007 to decide the world champion in the board game chess. It was an eight-player, double round robin tournament.

Viswanathan Anand of India won the tournament and the title of World Chess Champion. His winning score was 9 points out of 14, with a total of 4 wins and 10 draws, and Anand was the only undefeated player in the tournament. He will defend the title in a 2008 match against the previous world champion, Vladimir Kramnik.

2007 Championship Tournament
Playing conditions
The tournament was a double round robin, with the first round on 13 September 2007 and the final round on 29 September 2007. Rest days were on the 17th, 22nd and 26th, that is after rounds 4, 8 and 11. Games each day began at 2pm local time, which is 19:00 UTC. The time control was 40/2h, 20/1h, 15m+30sec/all meaning that each player had 2 hours per game, plus an extra hour added after the 40th move, 15 extra minutes added after the 60th move, and from there on 30 extra seconds added for each move (Fischer delay).[8] The pairings were made on Wednesday, 12 September 2007.[9]

2007 Candidates Tournament
Matches were best of six games, at normal time controls (40/120, then 20/60, then 15 minutes + 30 seconds per move). Where matches were tied after six games, tie breaks were played on the seventh day:[5]

2007 Qualification process
The top four finishers of the 2005 FIDE World Championship event were granted direct entry into the 2007 event. However, Veselin Topalov, FIDE World Chess Champion 2005, was replaced by Vladimir Kramnik, Classical World Chess Champion, after losing his unification match to him in the 2006 World Championship.

Four further players qualified through the 2005-07 qualification process, which consisted of three stages:
1. Continental championships
2. 2005 World Cup
3. 2007 Candidates Tournament


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World Chess Championship
Further details on the 1984 match, the longest championship match to date and also the last match scored by the number of wins, can be found in the articles on Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov.

Reunified title (2006 onwards)
Kramnik played to defend his title at the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007 in Mexico. This was an 8 player double round robin tournament, the same format as was used for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005. This tournament was won by Viswanathan Anand, thus making him the current World Chess Champion.

The World Chess Championship 2008, will be a match between the current champion Viswanathan Anand, and 2006 champion Vladimir Kramnik. The World Chess Championship 2009 will be between the 2008 champion; and the winner of a match between 2005 FIDE champion Veselin Topalov, and Chess World Cup 2007 winner Gata Kamsky.[11