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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.
List of World Chess Championships. Emanuel Lasker (left) facing incumbent champion Wilhelm Steinitz (right) in Philadelphia during the 1894 World Chess Championship. The World Chess Championship has taken various forms over time, including both match and tournament play. While the concept of a world champion of chess had already existed for ...
6 lis 2014 · Anand vs. Kramnik | 2008 World Chess Championship. After defeating Veselin Topalov in their 2006 match, Vladimir Kramnik was officially the undisputed world champion -- although he had been largely regarded as such since his 2000 match victory over Garry Kasparov.
22 wrz 2021 · Only 21 players in the history of chess have held the official title of world champion, 17 of which held the "classical" title. With rare exceptions, the classical champion has been decided in a match between the sitting champion and a challenger.
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.
Anand-Kramnik World Championship Match (2008) The World Championship match where Viswanathan Anand (India) will defends his World title against Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) took place in Bonn, Germany. The match consisted of twelve games, played under classical time controls, in the period from October 14 to October 30, 2008.
The World Chess Championship is played to determine the world champion in chess. The current world champion is Ding Liren, who defeated his opponent Ian Nepomniachtchi in the 2023 World Chess Championship. Magnus Carlsen, the previous world champion, had declined to defend his title.
