The World Chess Championship 2013 will be a match between the winner of the World Chess Championship 2012 and a challenger, to determine the 2013 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 2012, which will involve a match between 2010 champion Viswanathan Anand of India and challenger Boris Gelfand, the winner of the 2011 Candidates Tournament.
Chennai, India is being considered as the venue.[1] FIDE president had indicated that India would be given a first option of three months following the World Chess Championship 2012, to make a proposal for the organisation of the World Chess Championship Match 2013.[2]
The challenger to the match will be decided using an eight-player double round-robin tournament to be held in later part of the year 2012. The eight players will consist of
According to the FIDE regulations, the loser of the 2012 World Championship will be the #1 seed, and the remainder of the field will be seeded according to their ratings in the January 2012 FIDE rating list. Any replacements will be determined from the average rating of the July 2011 and January 2012 lists ( Sergey Karjakin (RUS) (2779.5), Veselin Topalov (BUL) (2768.5)).[3]
| Participant | Rating | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Points | TB | |
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| 1 | * * | 0.0 | ||||||||||
| 2 | Magnus Carlsen (NOR) | * * | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 3 | Levon Aronian (ARM) | * * | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 4 | Vladimir Kramnik (RUS) | * * | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 5 | Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR) | * * | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 6 | Alexander Grischuk (RUS) | * * | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 7 | Peter Svidler (RUS) | * * | 0.0 | |||||||||
| 8 | * * | 0.0 |
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