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The World Chess Championship 2008 was a best-of-twelve-games match between the incumbent World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, and the previous World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik. Kramnik had been granted a match after not winning the World Chess Championship 2007 tournament.
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Schedule and results. All games started at 3:00 pm CET (UTC+2 until October 25, UTC+1 from October 26) Games. Game 1, Kramnik-Anand, ½-½. Anand sacrificed a pawn with 14...Rxc6. Game 1 ended in a draw after Anand gave up a pawn but had sufficient counterplay to draw easily.
The reigning and undisputed World Champion Anand won his title in September 2007 at the World Championship tournament in Mexico City . Kramnik, who was undefeated in his three world championship matches, became second in this double round robin event. The organizer of the World Championship 2008 was Universal Event Promotion (UEP), which is ...
Result: Viswanathan Anand retains the World Title. Anand's FIDE rating going into the match was 27??, Kramnik's was 27??.
11 paź 2008 · Vladimir Kramnik, who defeated Garry Kasparov in a match to become the disputed World Champion. Kasparov had broken away from FIDE which resulted in two disputed crowns. Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik in Game #1. Photo by Frederic Friedel (ChessBase).
Chess World Championships. The following studies contain every game from "Official" Chess World Championships. They should be relatively easy to data-mine using the Lichess API. Obviously, over more than a century there is some controversy over which matches or tournaments qualify.
