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In the World Chess Championship 2010, the current world champion, Viswanathan Anand, will be challenged for the World Chess Championship title by Veselin Topalov. The match is scheduled to take place during April 2010,[2] in Sofia, Bulgaria.[3]
[edit] The World ChampionThe defending champion is Viswanathan Anand, who won the World Chess Championship 2007 (a tournament with eight players) and defended the title in the World Chess Championship 2008 (a match against former champion Vladimir Kramnik). [edit] The ChallengerFurther information: World Chess Championship 2006 and Chess World Cup 2007 The challenger to the title was determined in a match between former FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov and the winner of the Chess World Cup 2007, Gata Kamsky. On February 26, 2009, Topalov won the match and earned the right to be the challenger. [edit] QualifyingKamsky earned the right to play in the Challenger match by winning the Chess World Cup 2007. Topalov has been given direct entry to a "Challenger Match" against Kamsky. The reason lies in the complications in reunifying the world title in 2006. The chess world title was split between 1993 and 2006. In early 2006, FIDE had already announced the conditions for the World Chess Championship 2007: an eight-player tournament which included FIDE World Champion Topalov, but not "Classical" World Champion Vladimir Kramnik. FIDE later organized a re-unification match between Kramnik and Topalov (the World Chess Championship 2006), with Kramnik to take Topalov's place in the 2007 tournament if he was to win the match. Kramnik did win the match and the reunified World Chess Championship, and so Topalov was excluded from the 2007 World Championship. In June 2007 FIDE announced that Topalov would be compensated by getting special privileges in the 2009 qualifying cycle: direct entry to a Challenger Match.[4] [edit] Challenger Match The Challenger Match was an eight-game[5] match between Topalov and Kamsky. It was played in Sofia, Bulgaria, between February 16 and 28, 2009.[6] After Kamsky won the World Cup, there was ongoing uncertainty about the location for the Challenger match. Topalov preferred his home country of Bulgaria, while Kamsky wanted to play in a neutral country,[7] and his manager organized a bid from Lviv, Ukraine. FIDE awarded the match Bulgaria in February 2008, to Ukraine in June 2008, then back to Bulgaria in November 2008 because of problems with finances from Ukraine.[8] Kamsky got a new manager, and met with FIDE and Topalov representatives during the Chess Olympiad,[9] and on November 19, 2008 FIDE announced that the players had agreed to play in Bulgaria, despite Kamsky's preference to play elsewhere.[10] The match was originally scheduled for November 2008, but the late change to Bulgaria forced the match to be rescheduled for February 16-28, 2009. On February 26, 2009, Topalov defeated Kamsky in game 7 to win the match 4.5-2.5.
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