The World Championship 2007 will take place from September 12 to 30 in the Sheraton Centro Histórico Hotel in Mexico City. Eight players are qualified – the tournament will be a double round robin. The prize fund is US $ 1.3 million.
The five-star Sheraton Centro Histórico Hotel & Convention Center
in Mexico City is located on Reforma Avenue, just 15 minutes from the International
airport, at the main entrance of Mexico City's historical downtown district.
An entire story of the Convention Center is reserved for the world championship
| Player | Nat. | Rtn | Birth |
| Vishwanathan Anand | IND | 2792 | 1969 |
| Vladimir Kramnik | RUS | 2769 | 1975 |
| Alexander Morozevich | RUS | 2758 | 1977 |
| Peter Leko | HUN | 2751 | 1979 |
| Levon Aronian | ARM | 2750 | 1982 |
| Peter Svidler | RUS | 2735 | 1976 |
| Boris Gelfand | ISR | 2733 | 1968 |
| Alexander Grischuk | RUS | 2726 | 1983 |
Anand, Morozevich and Svidler qualified by virtue of their places in the 2005 FIDE World Championship in San Luis. Kramnik took the place that was originally reserved for Veselin Topalov (the winner of the San Luis world championship) after the latter lost his title at the 2006 Unification World Championship in Elista. The other four players qualified in the 2007 Candidates Matches in Elista. The winner of the Mexico World Championship receives the undisputed title of World Chess Champion.
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Most of the players will be travelling to Mexico a number of days before the start of the world championship, to cure the problem of the time difference. The World Championship starts with an Opening Ceremony in Mexico City's Theatre on Wednesday, September 12 at 19:00h. The individual rounds start at 14:00h (2 p.m.) local time – you can find the corresponding time zone of your location here. The closing ceremony takes place in the former City Hall on Sunday, September 30 at 19:00h (7 p.m.). |
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ChessBase will be covering the event comprehensively, with full reports on each round. Live transmission of the games will be provided by the official tournament web site (see below) and on Playchess.com, where GM Yasser Seirawan will provide running audio commentary with live board analysis. The broadcast will take place in a special World Championship room on the Playchess server. It is likely that we will also broadcast video images and interviews from Mexico.
In the next two weeks we will in addition be providing indepth portraits of the participants.
