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Home  Chess Games Database World Chess Championship 1990-2012 Fide/Pca 2010 Sofia - Viswanathan Anand-Veselin Topalov |
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World Chess Championship 2010 |
The World Chess Championship 2010 match pitted the defending world champion, Viswanathan Anand, against challenger Veselin Topalov, for the title of World Chess Champion. The match took place in Sofia, Bulgaria from April 24 to May 13, 2010, with a prize fund of 2 million euros (60% to the winner). In a dramatic finish, Anand won the match 6˝–5˝ to retain the title. The match was to be twelve games, with tie-breaks if necessary, the same format and length as the 2006 and 2008 matches. The start of the match was delayed one day due to air travel disruptions caused by the volcanic ash emissions from Eyjafjallajökull. Anand was to fly from Frankfurt to Sofia on April 16 and was stranded because of the eruption. He asked for a three day postponement, which was refused by the organisers on April 19. Anand finally reached Sofia on April 20, after a 40-hour road journey. The first game was consequently delayed by one day. The World Champion The defending champion was Viswanathan Anand, who had held the title since 2007. Anand won the World Chess Championship 2007 in an eight-player tournament, and then successfully defended the title in the World Chess Championship 2008 against former champion Vladimir Kramnik. The Challenger Qualifying In early 2006, FIDE announced the conditions for the World Chess Championship 2007: an eight-player tournament which included 2005 FIDE World Champion Topalov, but not "Classical" World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. FIDE later organised a re-unification match between Kramnik and Topalov (the World Chess Championship 2006), with Kramnik to take Topalov's place in the 2007 tournament if he was to win the match. Kramnik won the match and the reunified World Chess Championship, so Topalov was excluded from the 2007 World Championship. In June 2007 FIDE announced that Topalov would be compensated by getting special privileges in the 2009 qualifying cycle: direct entry to a Challenger Match. Gata Kamsky earned the right to play in the Challenger Match by winning the Chess World Cup 2007. Challenger Match 
The Challenger Match was an eight-game match between Topalov and Kamsky. It was played in Sofia, Bulgaria, between February 16 and 28, 2009. After Kamsky won the World Cup, there was ongoing uncertainty about the location for the Challenger match. Topalov preferred his home country of Bulgaria, while Kamsky wanted to play in a neutral country, and his manager organised a bid from Lviv, Ukraine. FIDE awarded the match to Bulgaria in February 2008, to Ukraine in June 2008, then back to Bulgaria in November 2008 because of problems with finances from Ukraine. Kamsky got a new manager, and met with FIDE and Topalov representatives during the Chess Olympiad, and on November 19, 2008, FIDE announced that the players had agreed to play in Bulgaria, despite Kamsky's preference to play elsewhere. The match was originally scheduled for November 2008, but the late change to Bulgaria forced the match to be rescheduled for February 16–28, 2009. On February 26, 2009, Topalov defeated Kamsky in game 7 to win the match 4˝–2˝. Previous head-to-head record Before the 2010 match Anand and Topalov played 67 games against each other at classical time control with the following statistics: 
The match Match conditions The match format was the best of 12 games. Players scored one point for a win and half a point for a draw. The match ended once either player scored 6˝ points. Time control was 120 minutes, with 60 minutes added after move 40, 15 minutes added after move 60, and 30 additional seconds per move starting from move 61. The match regulations specify a series of tie breaks.
Seconds and help Anand had the same group of seconds who helped his preparation in World Chess Championship 2008: Peter Heine Nielsen, Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Surya Ganguly and Radoslaw Wojtaszek. In a post-match interview Anand mentioned that Magnus Carlsen and Garry Kasparov had also helped him in preparation and that Vladimir Kramnik helped during the match. Topalov's seconds were Jan Smeets, Erwin l'Ami, Ivan Cheparinov and Jiri Dufek. For preparation, Topalov also used a state-owned IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer with 8192 processors, running the latest version of Rybka. Schedule and results 
All games started at 3.00 pm EEST (UTC+3), except Game 1, which began at 5.00 pm EEST. Former FIDE World Chess Champion Alexander Khalifman who analysed the 2010 Anand-Topalov World Chamiponship match for the famous Russian Chess Magazine 64 stated in a subsequent interview that "The chess was very good, and in sporting terms it was always a heated struggle with no short draws. While the result was fair. Despite the fact that Topalov had prepared superbly, it has to be admitted that in terms of talent he is still inferior to Anand. And even the age difference didn’t tell. Anand is a genius. He emanates light." |
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World Chess Championship 2010. (18 August 2011 at 16:50). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 11 October 2011, at 08.15, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Chess_Championship_2010 |
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