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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.
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.
6 lis 2014 · Three draws followed, and despite Kramnik's victory in the 10th game (when Anand only needed a draw to win the match), Anand managed to draw in the 11th, and thus won the match by the score 6.5-4.5, to become the next classical world champion.
11 paź 2008 · World Champion Viswanathan Anand will play in perhaps the biggest match of his life and a chance to cement his legacy among the world’s greatest players in chess history. His opponent… Vladimir Kramnik, who defeated Garry Kasparov in a match to become the disputed World Champion.
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.
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 decades, with several events considered by some to have established the world's foremost player, an event explicitly held to decide a world champion did not take place ...
16 gru 2018 · Kramnik - Anand World Championship 2008. In 12 games, Anand managed to do what Kasparov was unable - beat Kramnik in a World Championship match.
