World Chess Championship 2007

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Viswanathan Anand from India , the winner of the 2007 World Chess Championship

The 2007 World Chess Championship was held from September 12th to 30th, 2007 as a double round tournament with eight players in Mexico City . Organizationally, it was the successor to the FIDE World Cup 2005 from the time of the divided world championship claim 1993-2005; but it was held after the reunification battle in 2006 between the "classic" world champion Vladimir Kramnik and the FIDE world champion Wesselin Topalow . This made it the only undisputed World Chess Championship besides the World Chess Championship in 1948 , which was not held as a duel, but as a tournament with several participants.

The Indian Viswanathan Anand won the tournament and thus the world title with 9 out of 14 points. He won 4 times and drew 10 times, making him the only player in the tournament to remain undefeated. In the 2008 World Chess Championship he defended his title against previous world champion Vladimir Kramnik.

background

Moldovan postage stamp on the occasion of the Chess World Cup 2007

For the time being, the last time a world championship was held in tournament form, since 2010 it has only been determined between the world champion and his challenger. The challenger regulations for 2008 and 2009 were contractually agreed before the 2006 unification fight.

The 2005 FIDE World Chess Championship was also a double round tournament, but at that time the world title was shared between the FIDE world champion and the classic world champion Kramnik, who refused to participate. In his opinion, the world championship should be decided in a competition between the world champion and a challenger. Shortly after the 2005 tournament, FIDE announced that the 2007 World Cup would also be decided in the form of a double round tournament.

In May 2006 FIDE confirmed that in the autumn of the same year a union fight between the FIDE world champion Wesselin Topalow and the classic world champion Kramnik would take place. The competition conditions were:

  • If Kramnik wins against Topalow, he will take his place in the 2007 World Cup.
  • The 2007 World Cup will be played as a double round tournament.

Kramnik won the unification competition. In June 2007, he confirmed that he would recognize the 2007 tournament as a World Cup. However, he affirmed his preference for one-on-one fights. With the 2008 World Chess Championship , FIDE actually returned to one-on-one mode.

qualification

The first four of the FIDE World Cup 2005 were directly qualified for the 2007 tournament. Topalow, however, lost his place in the unification fight in 2006 to Kramnik.

Four other players qualified from 2005 to 2007 through a qualification process that contained three stages:

  1. Continental championships
  2. World Chess Cup 2005
  3. Candidates tournament 2006-2007

World Cup 2005

The 2005 World Chess Cup took place in Khanty-Mansiysk , Russia . It served to qualify for the candidates tournament. The game was played in a knockout system with a short period of time, similar to the FIDE World Championships 1998-2004 . The following players qualified:

  1. ArmeniaArmenia Levon Aronjan
  2. UkraineUkraine Ruslan Ponomarev
  3. FranceFrance Étienne Bacrot
  4. RussiaRussia Alexander Grishchuk
  5. RussiaRussia Yevgeny Bareev
  6. IsraelIsrael Boris Gelfand
  7. RussiaRussia Sergei Rublewski
  8. TurkeyTurkey Mikhail Gurevich
  1. United StatesUnited States Gata Kamsky
  2. NorwayNorway Magnus Carlsen
  3. RussiaRussia Vladimir Malakhov
  4. SpainSpain Francisco Vallejo Pons
  5. RussiaRussia Alexei Drejew
  6. NetherlandsNetherlands Loek van Wely
  7. FranceFrance Joël Lautier
  8. RussiaRussia Konstantin Sakayev

Candidate competitions 2007

A place in the Candidates Tournament was reserved for the 2004 FIDE World Champion , Rustam Kasimjanov . Five places were given to the players who were best placed in the FIDE world rankings of July 2004 and January 2005 and who had not previously qualified. These were: Péter Lékó , Michael Adams , Judit Polgár , Alexei Schirow and Étienne Bacrot . The remaining ten places went to the top ranked players at the FIDE World Cup 2005 who had not otherwise qualified.

The Candidates Tournament took place from May 26th to June 14th 2007 in Elista , a city in Kalmykia , Russia . Originally it was planned as a knockout tournament over two rounds, so that one player would qualify from a quarter of the starting field. In September 2006 FIDE proposed a change to a round robin tournament. However, this decision was rejected and the tournament took place as originally planned.

The top seed was the 2005 World Cup winner, Levon Aronjan. The remaining players were ranked according to their rating according to the FIDE world rankings from January 2006. In the second round, the winner of games 1-16 plays against the winner of games 8-9, the winner of games 2-15 plays against the winner of games 7-10, and so on.

conditions

The "Best of Six" was played, so that the one who had reached 3.5 points first went through. Furthermore, the reflection time for 40 trains was two hours, for another 20 trains one hour and for the remaining trains 15 minutes + 30 seconds per train. If there was still no winner after six games, tie-breaks were played on the seventh day:

  1. Four quick games were played. Thinking time was 25 minutes + ten seconds per move. The winner was whoever achieved 2.5 points.
  2. In the event of another tie, two blitz games were played with a time limit of five minutes + ten seconds per move.
  3. If it is still a tie, the players will draw a lottery to see who will receive white or black in a final “Sudden Death game”. White got six minutes to think about it and had to win, Black only five minutes, but a draw was enough for him to advance.

Round 1

Seat Surname Elo 1 2 3 4th 5 6th TB total
1 ArmeniaArmenia Levon Aronjan 2759 1 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 4.0 7.0
16 NorwayNorway Magnus Carlsen 2693 0 ½ 1 0 1 ½ 2.0 5.0
Seat Surname Elo 1 2 3 4th 5 6th TB total
8th SpainSpain Alexei Shirov 2699 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 2.5 5.5
9 EnglandEngland Michael Adams 2734 ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 0.5 3.5
Seat Surname Elo 1 2 3 4th 5 6th TB total
2 HungaryHungary Péter Lékó 2738 ½ 1 1 1 - - - 3.5
15th TurkeyTurkey Mikhail Gurevich 2639 ½ 0 0 0 - - - 0.5
Seat Surname Elo 1 2 3 4th 5 6th TB total
7th HungaryHungary Judit Polgár 2727 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 ½ - 2.5
10 RussiaRussia Yevgeny Bareev 2643 ½ 1 ½ 1 0 ½ - 3.5
Seat Surname Elo 1 2 3 4th 5 6th TB total
3 UkraineUkraine Ruslan Ponomarev 2717 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ - 2.5
14th RussiaRussia Sergei Rublevsky 2680 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ - 3.5
Seat Surname Elo 1 2 3 4th 5 6th TB total
6th RussiaRussia Alexander Grishchuk 2717 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ - - 3.5
11 RussiaRussia Vladimir Malakhov 2679 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ - - 1.5
Seat Surname Elo 1 2 3 4th 5 6th TB total
4th IsraelIsrael Boris Gelfand 2733 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 2.5 5.5
13 UzbekistanUzbekistan Rustam Kasimyanov 2677 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0.5 3.5
Seat Surname Elo 1 2 3 4th 5 6th TB total
5 FranceFrance Étienne Bacrot 2709 ½ 0 0 0 - - - 0.5
12 United StatesUnited States Gata Kamsky 2705 ½ 1 1 1 - - - 3.5

round 2

Seat Surname Elo 1 2 3 4th 5 6th TB total
1 ArmeniaArmenia Levon Aronian 2759 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ - 3.5
8th SpainSpain Alexei Shirov 2699 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ - 2.5
Seat Surname Elo 1 2 3 4th 5 6th TB total
2 HungaryHungary Péter Lékó 2738 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ - - 3.5
10 RussiaRussia Yevgeny Bareev 2643 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ - - 1.5
Seat Surname Elo 1 2 3 4th 5 6th TB total
4th IsraelIsrael Boris Gelfand 2733 ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 - - 3.5
12 United StatesUnited States Gata Kamsky 2705 ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 - - 1.5
Seat Surname Elo 1 2 3 4th 5 6th TB total
6th RussiaRussia Alexander Grishchuk 2717 1 ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 2.5 5.5
14th RussiaRussia Sergei Rublevsky 2680 0 ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 0.5 3.5

World championship tournament 2007

Attendees

  1. RussiaRussia Vladimir Kramnik - reigning world champion
  2. IndiaIndia Viswanathan Anand - 2nd place in the 2005 World Cup tournament
  3. RussiaRussia Peter Swidler - 3rd place in the 2005 World Cup
  4. RussiaRussia Alexander Morozevich - 4th place in the 2005 World Cup tournament
  5. HungaryHungary Péter Lékó - qualified through the Candidates Tournament
  6. IsraelIsrael Boris Gelfand - qualified through the Candidates Tournament
  7. ArmeniaArmenia Levon Aronian - qualified via the Candidates Tournament
  8. RussiaRussia Alexander Grischuk - qualified through the Candidates Tournament

Playing conditions

The first round of the double round tournament took place on September 13th, the last round on September 29th, 2007. The rest days were on September 17th, 22nd and 26th, i.e. after rounds 3, 8 and 11 respectively. The games began daily at two o'clock local time. H. 9:00 p.m. CEST. Time controls were at 40 / 2h, 20 / 1h, 15m + 30sec / rest , which means that each player has 2 hours for 40 moves, an additional 1 hour for another 20 moves and a further 15 minutes + 30 seconds per move for the remaining moves would have. The pairings were drawn on September 12, 2007 .

Results

Round 1 - September 13th
Anand Gelfand ½: ½ C42 Russian
Kramnik Swidler ½: ½ D43 Semi-Slavic
Morozevich Aronian ½: ½ E12 Ladies Indian
Grischuk Lékó ½: ½ C88 Spanish
Round 2 - September 14th
Kramnik (0.5) Morozevich (0.5) 1-0 E04 Catalan
Gelfand (0.5) Grischuk (0.5) ½: ½ E15 Ladies Indian
Swidler (0.5) Lékó (0.5) ½: ½ C89 Spanish
Aronian (0.5) Anand (0.5) 0: 1 D43 Semi-Slavic Queen's Gambit
Round 3 - September 15th
Anand (1.5) Kramnik (1.5) ½: ½ C42 Russian
Grischuk (1.0) Aronian (0.5) ½: ½ C88 Spanish
Lékó (1.0) Gelfand (1.0) ½: ½ C42 Russian
Morozevich (0.5) Swidler (1.0) 1-0 C45 Scottish
Round 4 - September 16
Aronian (1.0) Lékó (1.5) 1-0 A33 Benoni
Kramnik (2.0) Grischuk (1.5) ½: ½ E06 Catalan
Morozevich (1.5) Anand (2.0) ½: ½ D47 Queen's Gambit rejected
Swidler (1.0) Gelfand (1.5) ½: ½ C42 Russian
Round 5 - September 18th
Anand (2.5) Swidler (1.5) 1-0 C89 Spanish
Gelfand (2.0) Aronian (2.0) 1-0 A60 Benoni
Grischuk (2.0) Morozevich (2.0) 1-0 D38 Queen's Gambit rejected
Lékó (1.5) Kramnik (2.5) ½: ½ C54 Italian game
Round 6 - September 19th
Aronian (2.0) Kramnik (3.0) ½: ½ E06 Catalan
Gelfand (3.0) Morozevich (2.0) 1-0 E17 Ladies Indian
Grischuk (3.0) Swidler (1.5) ½: ½ D43 Semi-Slavic
Lékó (2.0) Anand (3.5) ½: ½ C78 Spanish
Round 7 - September 20th
Anand (4.0) Grischuk (3.5) 1-0 C88 Spanish
Kramnik (3.5) Gelfand (4.0) ½: ½ D43 Semi-Slavic (Botvinnik variant)
Morozevich (2.0) Lékó (2.5) ½: ½ C45 Scottish
Swidler (2.0) Aronian (2.5) ½: ½ C69 Spanish
Round 8 - September 21
Aronian (3.0) Morozevich (2.5) ½: ½ E17 Ladies Indian
Gelfand (4.5) Anand (5.0) ½: ½ E06 Catalan
Lékó (3.0) Grischuk (3.5) 1-0 C88 Spanish
Swidler (2.5) Kramnik (4.0) ½: ½ C42 Russian
Round 9 - September 23
Anand (5.5) Aronian (3.5) ½: ½ C89 Spanish
Grischuk (3.5) Gelfand (5.0) 1-0 E20 Nimzo-Indian
Lékó (4.0) Swidler (3.0) ½: ½ B90 Sicilian, Najdorf variant
Morozevich (3.0) Kramnik (4.5) 1-0 E61 King's Indian
Round 10 - September 24th
Aronian (4.0) Grischuk (4.5) 1-0 D30 Queen's Gambit rejected
Gelfand (5.0) Lékó (4.5) ½: ½ E05 Catalan
Kramnik (4.5) Anand (6.0) ½: ½ D43 Semi-Slavic
Swidler (3.5) Morozevich (4.0) ½: ½ B17 Caro-Kann
Round 11 - September 25th
Anand (6.5) Morozevich (4.5) 1-0 B90 Sicilian, Najdorf variant
Gelfand (5.5) Swidler (4.0) ½: ½ A15 English
Grischuk (4.5) Kramnik (5.0) ½: ½ C43 Russian
Lékó (5.0) Aronian (5.0) ½: ½ E15 Ladies Indian
Round 12 - September 27
Aronian (5.5) Gelfand (6.0) 0: 1 D43 Semi-Slavic
Kramnik (5.5) Lékó (5.5) 1-0 E05 Catalan
Morozevich (4.5) Grischuk (5.0) 1-0 A28 English
Swidler (4.5) Anand (7.5) ½: ½ C88 Spanish
Round 13 - September 28th
Aronian (5.5) Swidler (5.0) ½: ½ A29 English
Gelfand (7.0) Kramnik (6.5) ½: ½ D47 Semi-Slavic
Grischuk (5.0) Anand (8.0) ½: ½ D43 Semi-Slavic
Lékó (5.5) Morozevich (5.5) 1-0 B66 Sicilian
Round 14 - September 29
Anand (8.5) Lékó (6.5) ½: ½ C89 Spanish
Kramnik (7.0) Aronian (6.0) 1-0 E15 Ladies Indian
Morozevich (5.5) Gelfand (7.5) ½: ½ C42 Russian
Swidler (5.5) Grischuk (5.5) 1-0 B90 Sicilian, Najdorf variant

Numbers in brackets represent the player's score prior to each round.

Final score

space player Elo 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th Points SoBer
1 IndiaIndia Viswanathan Anand 2792 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 9 59
2 RussiaRussia Vladimir Kramnik 2769 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ 8th 54½
3 IsraelIsrael Boris Gelfand 2733 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 1 ½ 0 8th 54¼
4th HungaryHungary Péter Lékó 2751 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 1 7th 47¾
5 RussiaRussia Pyotr Swidler 2735 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 6½ 44¾
6th RussiaRussia Alexander Morozevich 2758 ½ 0 0 1 0 ½ ½ 0 1 ½ ½ ½ 0 1 6th 41¼
7th ArmeniaArmenia Levon Aronjan 2750 0 ½ ½ 0 0 0 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 6th 39¾
8th RussiaRussia Alexander Grishchuk 2726 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 0 1 0 ½ 0 5½ 40¼

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wladimir Kramnik on the situation in chess (part 2), ChessBase , June 1, 2007.
  2. ↑ 2005 FIDE World Cup results at Mark Weeks' World Chess Championship Index
  3. ↑ The Week in Chess 580
  4. ↑ a b c FIDE announces rules for the 2007 World Cup and candidate competitions ( Memento from October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ FIDE proposes a 2007 Candidates Tournament, in: Chessbase, September 24, 2006.
  6. ^ The Week in Chess 654, in: The Week in Chess , May 21, 2007.
  7. ^ FIDE : Rules for the World Chess Championship. Archived from the original on April 5, 2007 ; Retrieved January 5, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Mexico Countdown: Opening Ceremony, Pairings, in: Chessbase, September 13, 2007.

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