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Campeonato Mundial de Ajedrez - México 2007 Viswanathan Anand Vladimir Kramnik Boris Gelfand Peter Leko

Campeonato Mundial de Ajedrez - México 2007 Peter Svidler Alexander Morozevich Levon Aronian Alexander Grischuk

FLAG FED FIDE NAME 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 TOTAL 
01 India IND 2792  GM Viswanathan Anand ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 9.0/14 
02 Russia RUS 2798  GM Vladimir Kramnik ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 8.0/14 
03 Israel ISR 2733  GM Boris Gelfand ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 0 8.0/14 
04 Hungary HUN 2751  GM Péter Lékó ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 7.0/14 
05 Russia RUS 2735  GM Peter Svidler 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 6.5/14 
06 Russia RUS 2758  GM Alexander Morozevich ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 6.0/14 
07 Armenia ARM 2750  GM Levon Aronian 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 6.0/14 
08 Russia RUS 2726  GM Alexander Grischuk 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 0 5.5/14 



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  Chessbase   Chessbase - World Championship Mexico City: Mexico R10: Kramnik vs Anand drawn after long fight
  Chessbase   Chessbase - World Championship Mexico City: Mexico round nine: GM Mihail Marin annotates
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  Chessbase   Chessbase - World Championship Mexico City: Mexico R09: Morozevich beats Kramnik, Anand leads
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  Chessbase   Chessbase - World Championship Mexico City: Mexico R08: Gelfand-Anand drawn, Leko beats Grischuk
  Chessbase   Chessbase - World Championship Mexico City: GM commentary: Mihail Marin on round seven
  Chessbase   Chessbase - World Championship Mexico City: Mexico R07: Anand beats Grischuk, takes sole lead
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  Chessbase   Chessbase - World Championship Mexico City: Mexico R06: Gelfand beats Morozevich, joins Anand in the lead
  Chessbase   Chessbase - World Championship Mexico City: Mexico R05: Anand, Grischuk and Gelfand win
  Chessbase   Chessbase - World Championship Mexico City: GM Mihail Marin on missed opportunities in Mexico
  Chessbase   Chessbase - World Championship Mexico City: Mexico R04: Aronian beats Leko, Anand and Kramnik lead
  Chessbase   Chessbase - World Championship Mexico City: GM Mihail Marin: 'A day of curious moments'
  Chessbase   Chessbase - World Championship Mexico City: Mexico R03: Morozevich beats Svidler, Anand and Kramnik draw
  Chessbase   Chessbase - World Championship Mexico City: Anand: 'We found ...c5 here, just three days ago'
  Chessbase   Chessbase - World Championship Mexico City: Mexico R02: Anand draws first blood, Kramnik beats Morozevich
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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. In 2008, he successfully defended the title against the previous world champion, Vladimir Kramnik.

Background

This championship was unusual in that the World Chess Championship was decided by a tournament rather than a match.

The FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 was also a double round robin tournament, but at the time the world title was split, with that tournament being for the FIDE world championship, and with Classical World Champion Vladimir Kramnik refusing to take part. Soon after the 2005 tournament, FIDE announced that the 2007 World Championship would also be a double round robin tournament.

In 2006, FIDE announced the World Chess Championship 2006, to reunify the world chess championship. Because the organization of the 2007 tournament was largely in place, conditions of that match included:
  • If Classical champion (Kramnik) defeated FIDE Champion Veselin Topalov, Kramnik would take Topalov's place in the 2007 tournament.
  • The 2007 tournament would be a world championship.
Kramnik won the 2006 match. In June 2007, Kramnik confirmed that he recognized the 2007 tournament as the world championship, while expressing a personal preference for the championship to be decided by a match.

FIDE later announced that future world championships (beginning with the World Chess Championship 2008) would be decided by matches between the champion and a challenger. At the same time FIDE announced that, as compensation for being denied entry to the 2007 tournament, Topalov would have special privileges in the World Chess Championship 2009 cycle.

Participants
  1. Russia  Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) - reigning World Champion
  2. India  Viswanathan Anand (India) - joint second place in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005
  3. Russia  Peter Svidler (Russia) - joint second place in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005
  4. Russia  Alexander Morozevich (Russia) - fourth place in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005
  5. Hungary  Péter Lékó (Hungary) - qualified via the Candidates Tournament
  6. Israel  Boris Gelfand (Israel) - qualified via the Candidates Tournament
  7. Armenia  Levon Aronian (Armenia) - qualified via the Candidates Tournament
  8. Russia  Alexander Grischuk (Russia) - qualified via the Candidates Tournament
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
2005 World Cup

The 2005 World Cup, held in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, was the qualification for the Candidates tournament. It was a knock-out tournament of mini-matches, in the style of the FIDE World Chess Championships 1998-2004. However, once 16 players were left, they were no longer immediately eliminated, but played further mini-matches to establish places 1 through 16.

The top finishers were:
  1. Armenia  Levon Aronian (Armenia)
  2. Ukraine  Ruslan Ponomariov (Ukraine)
  3. France  Etienne Bacrot (France)
  4. Russia  Alexander Grischuk (Russia)
  5. Russia  Evgeny Bareev (Russia)
  6. Israel  Boris Gelfand (Israel)
  7. Russia  Sergei Rublevsky (Russia)
  8. Turkey  Mikhail Gurevich (Turkey)
  9. United States  Gata Kamsky (USA)
  10. Norway  Magnus Carlsen (Norway)
  11. Russia  Vladimir Malakhov (Russia)
  12. Spain  Francisco Vallejo Pons (Spain)
  13. Russia  Alexey Dreev (Russia)
  14. The Netherlands  Loek Van Wely (Netherlands)
  15. France  Joel Lautier (France)
  16. Russia  Konstantin Sakaev (Russia)
2007 Candidates Tournament

One place in the Candidates Tournament was reserved for 2004 FIDE World Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov. Five places were then awarded to the top five players by FIDE rating (average of July 2004 and January 2005 ratings) who had not already qualified: these were Péter Lékó, Michael Adams, Judit Polgár, Alexei Shirov and Étienne Bacrot. The remaining ten places went to the highest finishers at the 2005 FIDE World Cup who had not otherwise qualified.

The Candidates tournament, held in Elista, Kalmykia, Russia, from May 26 to June 14, 2007, was originally to consist of a two-round knockout with one player qualifying from each quarter of the draw. In September 2006, FIDE proposed that these players play a 16 player, single round-robin tournament instead. However this decision was reversed, and the tournament consisted of two rounds of matches as originally planned.

The 2005 World Cup winner Aronian was the top seed, with the remaining players seeded in rating order according to the January 2006 ratings list. In the second round, the 1v16 winner played the 8v9 winner, 2v15 winner versus 7v10 winner, and so on.

Match conditions

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:
  1. Best of four rapid games were played. Rapid time control was 25 minutes for the game, plus 10 seconds per move.
  2. Where the score was still tied, best of two blitz games were played. Blitz time control was five minutes for the game, plus 10 seconds per move.
  3. If the score was still tied, the players would have drawn lots for a single sudden death game where White had six minutes but needed to win, Black had five minutes but only needed to draw. This final stage of tie break, called an Armageddon chess game, was never required.




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). The pairings were made on Wednesday, 12 September 2007.



Numbers in parentheses indicate players' scores prior to the round.



For players who finished level on points, the following tie-breakers were applied (in order of precedence): results of games between tied players, total number of wins, Neustadtl score.

 

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