World Chess Championship 2011
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The World Chess Championship 2011 will be a match, between a champion and a challenger, held during 2011 to determine a new World Chess Champion. It will be held under the auspices of FIDE, the World Chess Federation.
The defending champion will be the winner of the World Chess Championship 2009.
The challenger is being decided over a three year process:
- The first stage is the FIDE Grand Prix 2008-2009, a grand prix series of tournaments between 21 elite players, which began in April 2008.
- In late 2009, FIDE will stage the Chess World Cup 2009, a series of knockout mini-matches following a similar format to the Chess World Cup 2007 (128 players, seven rounds).
- In 2010, an eight game challenger match will be played between the FIDE Grand Prix 2008-2009 winner and the Chess World Cup 2009 winner.[1]
The winner of the challenger match will play the defending champion in a twelve game match in 2011.[2]
This is the first "regular" championship cycle since the world championship reunification in 2006, because Veselin Topalov was excluded from the 2007 championship, and then the 2008 and 2009 championships granted special privileges to Vladimir Kramnik and Topalov respectively. FIDE's plan is that, starting with this championship, future World Chess Championships will continue in the same format, on a two-year cycle.[3] [4]
[edit] Notes
- ^ FIDE Grand Prix - Regulations, FIDE web site, accessed April 30, 2008
- ^ Regulations for the World Chess Championship Cycle 2007 - 2009 (see after section 5), FIDE web site, accessed April 30, 2008
- ^ New World Chess Championship cycle, Chessbase, June 24, 2007
- ^ Tallinn Presidential Board Maps New World Chess Championship Cycle, FIDE press release, June 24, 2007. Includes chart of future cycles
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- Controversy about the rights of the defending champion
- ACP opinion on the format of the cycle
- Chessvibes on the cycle
- Mark Week's reaction to the cycle
- Morozevich reaction to the cycle
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