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World Chess Championship 2012 |
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The World Chess Championship 2012 will be a match between the current world champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel, winner of the Candidates tournament. The match will be held in May 2012 at the Skolkovo foundation (Silicon Valley of Russia) near Moscow, Russia to determine the World Chess Champion. The match will be held under the auspices of FIDE, the World Chess Federation. The prize fund is 2.55 million US Dollars. Ilya Levitov, the head of the Russian chess federation said contrary to the FIDE press release, the match will take place in one of Moscow's museums and not in Skolkovo. The closing ceremony and certain other events may happen in Skolkovo, but not the match itself. The defending champion is Anand, who successfully defended his title by winning the World Chess Championship 2010 against Veselin Topalov and has held the title since 2007. The challenger is Gelfand, who won the tournament of eight-player Candidate Matches. The process for selecting the challenger has undergone a number of changes. A major change was announced on November 25, 2008, when it was announced that a two-player Challenger Match would be replaced with an eight-player Candidates' Tournament. The change was criticised by a number of players and commentators, as well as by the Association of Chess Professionals. In November 2010, then world #2 Magnus Carlsen withdrew from the Candidates' Tournament. The Candidates Tournament was played as knockout matches. The first round candidates' matches were the first to win three games, draws not counting. Later rounds were first to win four games. The final had a limit of 24 games, which Karpov won 3-2 with 19 draws, earning the right to challenge Fischer. Venue The 2012 FIDE World Chess Championship will be held in Moscow, Russia. The Executive Board gave during its congress in fall 2009 in Halkidiki an option to London, United Kingdom to organise the World Chess Championship for 2012. They had until February 15, 2010 to exercise the option which had to include the offer of a prize fund similar to that for the World Chess Championship 2010 match. The London Chess Classic organising body "Chess Promotions Limited" confirmed that London were in negotiations to hold the World Chess Championships in 2012. However, after FIDE failed to agree to the terms of the contract within the time frame agreed upon, the option expired on January 28, 2011, and Chess Promotions Limited withdrew their bid to organise the event in London, citing the lack of time left to successfully organise the event. As a result FIDE opened an application procedure for the hosting of the World Chess Championship match to be played from 10 April 2012 to 31 May 2012. Organisations interested in bidding to host the event had until 31 July 2011, 13:00 GMT to submit their documents including a bid fee. On June 28, it was announced that Moscow had submitted a bid to host the 2012 World Chess Championship. On July 13, the Tamil Nadu state government announced a bid of Rs 20 crore (Approx. 4.5 million $) for the match to be held in Chennai, India. Chennai is the home city of the World Champion Viswanathan Anand. It was reported on 14 July 2011 that Moscow, Russia and Minsk, Belarus were also interested in hosting this event In an interview with the Russian newspaper "Kommersant", dated 29 July, Boris Gelfand expressed his concern about the offer made by Chennai. Gelfand said the offer from Moscow was the only transparent one, he was not sure of the existence of financial guarantees by the Indian side. The Chennai offer was in Tamil language and he claimed it had not been translated in English. In the past, matches, including those of Kasparov against Ponomaryov and against Kasimdzanov were cancelled due to lack of financial guarantees. On 2 August, FIDE announced that it received bids from the Russian chess federation (Moscow) and a second one from the All India chess federation (Chennai). Both were well above the minimum required prize fund. FIDE announced they would contact the bidders and players, and declare the winner of the bid by 10 August 2011. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Fide's president, told the Russian newspaper "Sport express" that financial offer was not the only criterion. Other factors, including possibility of propagation of the "chess in school" program, and popularization of chess in a particular region will also be considered. He would also take into account the views of the champion and the challenger. On 8 August, FIDE announced that the Russian Chess Federation had won the bid and will host the match in Moscow in May 2012. The prize fund will be 2.55 million US dollars. Candidates' tournament The challenger will be Boris Gelfand of Israel. In June 2009, FIDE indicated that the format would be matches. Originally, the intended venue for the candidate matches was Baku, but Levon Aronian announced that he would not play in Azerbaijan and matches involving him were to be held in a different country yet to be determined. This was changed to Kazan, Russia in July 2010, but with the Azerbaijan nominee, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, remaining in the tournament. Veselin Topalov has announced that he would not play in Russia against a Russian opponent, due to the unpleasant episodes which took place during the 2006 match against Vladimir Kramnik. Challenger is in bold. 
Bracket Tiebreaks are in parentheses where needed. 
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