FIDE World Chess Championship 2007

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The FIDE World Chess Championship 2007 will be held in Mexico City beginning on September 12, 2007. It will be an eight-player, double round-robin, tournament.

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[edit] Qualification

Originally, the top four players from the 2005 World Championship were exempted through to this tournament. However, Veselin Topalov (FIDE World Chess Champion 2005) was replaced by Vladimir Kramnik (Classical World Chess Champion) after Topalov lost his unification 2006 World Championship match to him.

Current qualifiers:

  1. Vladimir Kramnik - World Chess Champion 2006
  2. Viswanathan Anand
  3. Peter Svidler
  4. Alexander Morozevich

A further four players will qualify from a sixteen player candidates' tournament.

[edit] Candidates' tournament

Sixteen players qualified for the candidates' tournament either by exemption or through the 2006 World Cup. This tournament is due to be held in Elista, Kalmykia, Russia in April 2007. Originally it was to consist of a two-round knockout with one player qualifying from each quarter of the draw. However, a round-robin is now proposed. [1]

1 Levon Aronian - Magnus Carlsen
2 Peter Leko - Mikhail Gurevich
3 Ruslan Ponomariov - Sergei Rublevsky
4 Boris Gelfand - Rustam Kasimdzhanov
5 Etienne Bacrot - Gata Kamsky
6 Alexander Grischuk - Vladimir Malakhov
7 Judit Polgár - Evgeny Bareev
8 Alexei Shirov - Michael Adams

[edit] Uncertainties

After press conferences by the Kramnik and Topalov camps, in mid-October 2006, significant uncertainties have emerged:

  • Silvio Danailov, the manager of Topalov, has proposed a return match on 3 March 2007 in Sofia.
  • Danailov predicted that Kramnik would refuse to play and be stripped of his title by FIDE.
  • Kramnik has refused the return match and suggested that Anand or Leko might want a match.
  • Kramnik supports Topalov being admitted to the 2007 Championship.[2]

There is also press speculation that Kramnik may not play in Mexico City, which would split again the recently reunited title.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ FIDE proposes Candidates tournament 2007, Chessbase, 24 September 2006.
  2. ^ "Kramnik will not play Topalov in March", Chessbase, 17 October 2006.
  3. ^ "Kramnik’s crafty footwork", Malcolm Pein, Daily Telegraph, 18 October 2006.

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