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The World Chess Championship 2012 was staged in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, between the current World Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and the winner of the Candidates tournament Boris Gelfand of Israel. The match was over twelve games plus tiebreak, and lasted from May 11 to 30. It was won by Anand in the tiebreak. The prize fund was US $2.55 million, the winner getting $1.53 million (60%), the loser $1.02 million (40%).
The
Telegraph: Everest moment in chess: ‘I won because I won’
The Telegraph virtually brought out an Anand special on Thursday. He occupies
the front page with a huge photo of his face and a column by IM
Venkatachalam Saravanan. And there are many more in the sports page too!
“I won because I won,” was how Viswanathan Anand summarised his tie-break victory over Boris Gelfand in the World Chess Championship on Wednesday. Describing the rapid games as very tense affairs with relatively steady play from Gelfand, he attributed his victory to holding his nerves in the tense rapid encounters. Anand’s superiority in handling the clock was the crucial factor where Gelfand faltered repeatedly in the four games. Most of the time, Gelfand was seen playing with less than a minute in his clock, whereas Anand always kept more than three minutes in his clock, thus showing his experience in playing rapid games. Read the full story here.
Newly-crowned world chess champion Viswanathan Anand and runner-up Boris Gelfand on Thursday met Russian President Vladimir Putin over a cup of tea in his residence. Anand, who clinched his fifth World championship title yesterday, said that he had learnt chess in a Soviet cultural centre in his hometown when he was a child. “So we brought this on ourselves!” Mr. Putin said. Mr. Putin heaped praise on both the players for their “outstanding game.”
Zee
News: Is Viswanathan Anand the greatest ever chess player?
India's chess legend Viswanathan Anand can lay claim to be one of the all-time
greats in the sport after he won his fifth World Championship title beating
Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand in the tie-breaker in Moscow Wednesday. Widely
considered as the greatest Indian sportsman, the 42-year-old Anand has been
among the game's elite for more than a decade and a half. Anand first won the
World Chess Championship title in 2000 beating Latvian Alexei Shirov in Tehran
in 2000. He then followed it up with wins in 2007 (Mexico), Bonn (2008), Sofia
(2010) and now Moscow (2012). The win adds lustre to his six chess Oscars. Anand
has won the Chess Oscar "an award given by polling votes from the global
chess fraternity, including players and best writers across the world",
a record five times with the wins coming in 1997, 1998, 2003, 2004, 2007 and
2008. See also: High
time we consider Anand for Bharat Ratna (the Republic of India's highest
civilian award for the national service, including artistic, literary, and scientific
achievements).
NDTV:
A gold medal and $1.4 million for Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan Anand received a gold medal, prize money of US $1.4 million, a memento
and a piece of contemporary art displaying him and challenger Boris Gelfand,
for his world chess championship win at a ceremony here on Thursday. Stating
that his connection with Russia has been very deep, Anand said, "I benefitted
a lot from playing chess in Russian Cultural center in Chennai and my second
grandmaster norm was also made at the Cultural center in New Delhi. The connection
with Russia is quite deep, as I also played a lot of tournaments here while
growing up." The speculation over Anand's team also ended. It remained
the same as it was four years back with Peter Hiene Nielsen, Rustam Kasimdzhanov,
Radek Wojtajsek and Surya Shekhar Ganguly as his seconds for this match too.
Times of India: Factfile of Viswanathan Anand's World Chess Championship titles
NY
Daily News: Putin praises Indian chess schools for Anand's success
Russian President Vladimir Putin Thursday lauded Russian and Indian chess schools
that produced players like Indian World Champion Viswanathan Anand. Anand, who
beat Israeli challenger Boris Gelfand to win his fifth World title, met the
Russian leader at his Moscow residence here Thursday. "In India and Russia
and in the former Soviet Union, chess schools are probably the best in the world,"
Putin told Anand. "Chess has always been a source of pride for our nations."
Anand recognised the role played by the Soviet Union in his formative years,
learning the game at a Soviet cultural centre while he was growing up, making
the Tretyakov Gallery, one of Russia's top museums, a fitting venue. Gelfand,
who grew up in Belarusian capital Minsk, tagged along for the visit and remarked
Russia was regaining its place on the world chess stage. "In the last few
years Russia, and Moscow in particular, has returned to its position as the
capital of the chess world," he said. "This match, I think, was the
best-organised chess match in history. It will push the development of chess."
AP:
Despite loss, Israeli chess grandmaster wins fans
Israel's latest cultural hero is neither the usual army general nor a sexy celebrity
– he's a bespectacled 43-year-old Belarus-born chess grandmaster. Israelis
have been riveted by Boris Gelfand's three-week battle for world chess supremacy.
Despite coming up just short this week, losing in a sudden-death round, his
efforts have attracted new fans and drawn attention to Israel as a surprising
chess powerhouse. His duel with world chess champion Viswanathan Anand of India
was broadcast live on Israeli TV, thousands joined Gelfand fan pages on Facebook
and his moves became water cooler talk in Israel – even among those who
can't tell the difference between a rook and a bishop.
Times
of India: Israel PM keenly follows Anand-Gelfand match
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an amateur chess player and
an enthusiast of the game, closely followed the 12th game of World Championships
between his countryman Boris Gelfand and India's defending champion Viswanathan
Anand in Moscow. The game was broadcast on a giant screen in a room adjacent
to the Prime Minister's office where Netanyahu watched it between meetings and
spoke with Natan Sharansky, a former minister who was a promising chess player
as a child, about the moves.
Classical chess games
Players | Rtng |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
Tot. |
Perf. |
+/– |
Vishy Anand | 2791 |
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
0 |
1 |
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
6.0 |
2727 |
–11 |
Boris Gelfand | 2727 |
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
1 |
0 |
½ |
½ |
½ |
½ |
6.0 |
2791 |
+11 |
Rapid chess tiebreak games
Players | Rtng |
R1 |
R2 |
R3 |
R4 |
Tot. |
Perf. |
Vishy Anand | 2791 |
½ |
1 |
½ |
½ |
2.5 |
2815 |
Boris Gelfand | 2727 |
½ |
0 |
½ |
½ |
1.5 |
2703 |
We were asked by some readers what the final column of the top table, +/–, meant. It gives the number, calculated by the ChessBase program (or Fritz), of real rating points players have won or lost as a result of this event. This will be reflected in the next FIDE rating list, but is already given in the Live Ratings:
# | Player | live rtng |
+/– |
games |
age |
1 | Carlsen | 2835.0 |
0.0 |
0 |
21 (30.11.1990) |
2 | Aronian | 2823.2 |
-1.8 |
6 |
29 (06.10.1982) |
3 | Kramnik | 2802.8 |
+1.8 |
6 |
36 (25.06.1975) |
4 | Radjabov | 2784.0 |
0.0 |
0 |
25 (12.03.1987) |
5 | Nakamura | 2782.6 |
+7.6 |
14 |
24 (09.12.1987) |
6 | Anand | 2780.2 |
-10.8 |
12 |
42 (11.12.1969) |
7 | Karjakin | 2779.0 |
0.0 |
0 |
22 (12.01.1990) |
8 | Caruana | 2772.0 |
+2.0 |
14 |
19 (30.07.1992) |
9 | Morozevich | 2769.0 |
0.0 |
0 |
34 (18.07.1977) |
10 | Ivanchuk | 2767.4 |
+3.4 |
10 |
43 (18.03.1969) |
11 | Grischuk | 2761.0 |
0.0 |
0 |
28 (31.10.1983) |
12 | Topalov | 2752.0 |
0.0 |
0 |
37 (15.03.1975) |
13 | Kamsky | 2743.8 |
+2.8 |
11 |
37 (02.06.1974) |
14 | Svidler | 2741.0 |
0.0 |
0 |
35 (17.06.1976) |
15 | Wang Hao | 2739.1 |
+1.1 |
10 |
22 (04.08.1989) |
16 | Tomashevsky | 2738.0 |
0.0 |
0 |
24 (01.07.1987) |
17 | Gelfand | 2737.8 |
+10.8 |
12 |
43 (24.06.1968) |
18 | Gashimov | 2737.0 |
0.0 |
0 |
25 (24.07.1986) |
19 | Jakovenko | 2736.0 |
0.0 |
0 |
28 (28.06.1983) |
20 | Bologan | 2732.4 |
+16.4 |
9 |
40 (14.12.1971)
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