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Veselin Topalaov Viswanathan Anand Peter Svidler Alexander Morozevich

Peter Leko Rustan Kasimdzhanov Michael Adams Judit Polgar

FLAG FED FIDE NAME 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 TOTAL 
01 Bulgaria BUL 2788  GM Veselin Topalov ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 10.0/14 
02 India IND 2788  GM Viswanathan Anand ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 8.5/14 
03 Russia RUS 2738  GM Peter Svidler 0 ½ ½ ½ 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 8.5/14 
04 Russia RUS 2707  GM Alexander Morozevich 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 0 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 7.0/14 
05 Hungary HUN 2763  GM Péter Lékó 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 6.5/14 
06 Uzbekistan UZB 2670  GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 5.5/14 
07 United Kingdom ENG 2719  GM Michael Adams 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 5.5/14 
08 Hungary HUN 2735  GM Judit Polgár 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ 4.5/14 



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  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis: The return of the participants
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis: The prize-giving ceremony
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis R14: Topalov wins, Anand second
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: 'Veselin is interested to play Kramnik or Kasparov'
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis R13: Veselin Topalov is World Champion
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis – and simply getting there
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis: Statistical chances of Topalov, Anand and Svidler
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: The success of a World Chess Championship
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis R12: Anand beats Leko with black
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis R11: Anand and Svidler win, Topalov on the brink
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis R10: Kasimdzhanov beats Polgar
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis R9: Morozevich wins, Svidler, Anand draw
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis: Topalov and other historical performance records
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: Susan Polgar's take on San Luis
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis R7: Topalov. Wins. Again.
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis R6: Topalov beats Polgar with black
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis: Anand's chances after round four
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis R5: Topalov on top of the world
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis R4: The World Championship slugfest continues
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis R3: Slugfest at the World Championship
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis R2: Topalov takes Anand to the brink
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis R1: Anand and Topalov win with black
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: World Championship starts in San Luis
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis World Championship – who will win?
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: San Luis: the players arrive
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: Ilyumzhinov: 'In principle Kramnik can play the winner'
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: Short challenges Kasparov: who will win?
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: 'It's like London, Gastings and Gaaga-Moscow'
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: Adams: 'The strongest player will win'
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: Kasimdzhanov: 'Nerves will prevail'
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: 'It will be even harder because of its status'
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: Judit Polgar – preparing one by one with both colours
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: The Prince and the Governor
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: Topalov: 'I haven’t a clue, anyone can win'
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: Leko: decision in the last round or tiebreak
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: The Governor and the World Chess Championship
  Chessbase   Chessbase - FIDE World Championship San Luis: Looking ahead: FIDE World Championship in San Luis
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FIDE World Chess Championship 2005


The FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 took place in Potrero de los Funes, San Luis Province in Argentina from September 27 to October 16, 2005. It was won by Veselin Topalov.

Background

In the face of criticism of the Knock-Out FIDE World Chess Championships held from 1998 to 2004, FIDE (the International Chess Federation) made changes for its World Chess Championship in 2005. It used normal (slow) time controls (unlike the 2002 and 2004 Knock-Out tournaments), and changed the format to an eight player, double round robin event, where every player plays every other player twice, once with each colour.

The players invited were:
  1. The finalists from the previous (2004) FIDE World Championship: Rustam Kasimdzhanov and Michael Adams;
  2. Classical World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, and his most recent challenger, Péter Lékó;
  3. The next top four rated players: Garry Kasparov, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov and Alexander Morozevich.
  4. Kramnik refused to play, as did the recently retired Kasparov. Their places were taken by the next two players on the FIDE rating list: Peter Svidler and Judit Polgár.
The participation of Judit Polgár made her the first woman to compete for the world chess championship.

The opening ceremony took place on September 27, the matches started on September 28, and the closing ceremony took place on October 16.

Results

The final standings were:



The first tie-break was head-to-head results, the second tie-break was total number of wins.

Topalov scored an extraordinary 6.5/7 in the first cycle, one of the greatest streaks in the history of championship-level chess. He then drew every one of his games in the second cycle, clinching the victory with one round to spare. This made Topalov the FIDE World Chess Champion.

Aftermath

FIDE declared before the tournament that they would regard whoever won as World Chess Champion. However, the non-participation of "Classical" World Champion Vladimir Kramnik meant that there were still two competing claimants to World Champion: FIDE Champion Topalov, and "Classical" Champion Kramnik.

Kramnik announced before the tournament that he should not be required to compete; but that as part of the "Prague Agreement", his victory in the Classical World Chess Championship 2004 entitled him to direct entry to a match against the FIDE World Champion for the unified world title. After the tournament, he expressed his willingness to play such a match against Topalov.

Although Topalov initially declined Kramnik's offer, he later acceded. The two contested the FIDE World Chess Championship 2006 to reunify the title, with Kramnik emerging the winner.

 

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