FIDE World Chess Championship 2007

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Vladimir Kramnik
Vladimir Kramnik

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

One place in the Candidates' Tournament was reserved for 2004 FIDE World Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov with five further places being awarded to the next top five players in the FIDE ratings list (average of July 2004 and January 2005 ratings), namely Peter Leko, Michael Adams, Judit Polgár, Alexei Shirov and Etienne Bacrot.[1] The remaining 10 places went to the highest finishers at the 2005 FIDE World Cup, who had not otherwise qualified.[2]

The tournament, due to be held in Elista, Kalmykia, Russia in May 26 - June 14, 2007 , was originally to consist of a two-round knockout with one player qualifying from each quarter of the draw.

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

However, FIDE has now proposed that these players will play a 16 player, single round-robin tournament instead.[3]

[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.[4]

There is also press speculation that Kramnik may not play in Mexico City, which would split again the recently reunited title.[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ FIDE Rules for 2007 World Championship
  2. ^ 2005 FIDE World Cup Results at Mark Weeks' World Chess Championship Index
  3. ^ FIDE proposes Candidates tournament 2007, Chessbase, 24 September 2006.
  4. ^ "Kramnik will not play Topalov in March", Chessbase, 17 October 2006.
  5. ^ "Kramnik’s crafty footwork", Malcolm Pein, Daily Telegraph, 18 October 2006.

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[edit] External links

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