The Path to Immortality - VIshwanathan Anand on his Road to become the undisputed King in Chess
93The World Chess Championship 2007 was held in Mexico City, from 12 September 2007 to 30 September 2007 to decide the world champion in the board game chess. It was an eight-player, double round robin tournament.
Viswanathan Anand of India won the tournament and the title of World Chess Champion. His winning score was 9 points out of 14, with a total of four wins and 10 draws, and Anand was the only undefeated player in the tournament.
This championship was unusual in that the World Chess Championship was decided by a tournament rather than a match.
The FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 was also a double round robin tournament, but at the time the world title was split, with that tournament being for the FIDE world championship, and with Classical World Champion Vladimir Kramnik refusing to take part.[1] Soon after the 2005 tournament, FIDE announced that the 2007 World Championship would also be a double round robin tournament.
In 2006, FIDE announced the World Chess Championship 2006, to reunify the world chess championship. Because the organization of the 2007 tournament was largely in place, conditions of that match included:
If Classical champion (Kramnik) defeated FIDE Champion Veselin Topalov, Kramnik would take Topalov's place in the 2007 tournament.
The 2007 tournament would be a world championship.
Kramnik won the 2006 match. In June 2007, Kramnik confirmed that he recognized the 2007 tournament as the world championship, while expressing a personal preference for the championship to be decided by a match.
Today we are analyzing Vishy's game from the round two in which he faced the top grandmaster Levon Aronian in a very dynamic Slav defense.
HERE IS THE PGN OF THE GAME:
[Event "WCh"]
[Site "Mexico City MEX"]
[Date "2007.09.14"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Aronian,L"]
[Black "Anand,V"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2750"]
[BlackElo "2792"]
[EventDate "2007.09.13"]
[ECO "D43"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 c6 5. Bg5 h6 6. Bh4 dxc4 7. e4 g5 8.
Bg3 b5 9. Ne5 h5 10. h4 g4 11. Be2 Bb7 12. O-O Nbd7 13. Qc2 Nxe5 14. Bxe5
Bg7 15. Rad1 O-O 16. Bg3 Nd7 17. f3 c5 18. dxc5 Qe7 19. Kh1 a6 20. a4 Bc6
21. Nd5 exd5 22. exd5 Be5 23. f4 Bg7 24. dxc6 Nxc5 25. Rd5 Ne4 26. Be1 Qe6
27. Rxh5 f5 28. Kh2 Rac8 29. Bb4 Rfe8 30. axb5 axb5 31. Re1 Qf7 32. Rg5
Nxg5 33. fxg5 Rxc6 34. Bf1 Rxe1 35. Bxe1 Re6 36. Bc3 Qc7+ 37. g3 Re3 38.
Qg2 Bxc3 39. bxc3 f4 40. Qa8+ Kg7 41. Qa6 fxg3+ 0-1