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Anand and Kramnik started out peacefully with two interesting draws, after which the Indian player exploded to score three wins - in game 3, game 5, and game 6. Especially difficult for Kramnik were the two loses with black in the same line which basically have decided the outcome of the match in early stage. Although Kramnik managed to pull a win in 10th game and Anand drew 11th game today with white pieces to win the match at a 6.5 - 4.5 margin.
The prize fund of 1.5 million Euro (approximately 2.35 million US Dollars) including taxes and FIDE license fees, and will be split equally between these 2 players. You can get a few more details on the match in the following links -
I have been following the games everyday in BART from my home to San Francisco or early morning at Chessbase, Susan Polgar's Blog, Chessdom, ChessMind and Official WCC Site, Chess Ninja Blog.
Except for today's drawn game the live rating at http://chess.liverating.org shows Anand's current live rating is 2791 (jointly topping the list with Topalov) and Kramnik's 2764. So for this draw I believe Anand may settle down 1 point lower than Topalov in the second position of the list. Here are few news on Anand's victory. So he now needs to prepare for another challenger next year - the winner of Topalov vs Kamsky match.
I have been following the games everyday in BART from my home to San Francisco or early morning at Chessbase, Susan Polgar's Blog, Chessdom, ChessMind and Official WCC Site, Chess Ninja Blog.
Except for today's drawn game the live rating at http://chess.liverating.org shows Anand's current live rating is 2791 (jointly topping the list with Topalov) and Kramnik's 2764. So for this draw I believe Anand may settle down 1 point lower than Topalov in the second position of the list. Here are few news on Anand's victory. So he now needs to prepare for another challenger next year - the winner of Topalov vs Kamsky match.
- http://sports.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Chess/News/Veni_Vidi_Vishy_The_mind_and_method_of_the_maestro_in_a_mad_world/articleshow/msid-3655782,curpg-2.cms
- http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4988
- http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/2008/10/wc-organizer-official-statement.html
- http://www.chessdom.com/anand-world-chess-champion-2008
- http://www.chessninja.com/dailydirt/2008/10/wch-08-g11.htm
2 comments:
Here is a post on Anand's 4 seconds in this match -
(1) Peter Heine Nielsen (FIDE Rating: 2662)
(2) Rustam Kasimdzhanov (FIDE Rating: 2672)
(3) Radoslaw Wojtaszek (FIDE Rating: 2599)
(4) Surya Shekhar Ganguly (FIDE Rating: 2603)
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1223961458.shtml
Check this one too -
http://www.chesscafe.com/polgar/polgar.htm
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