Who will win the match?

FIDE World Chess Championship Carlsen-Anand 2014

The FIDE World Chess Championship match between defending champion Magnus Carlsen and his challenger Viswanathan Anand is taking place from November 7 to 27, 2014 in Olympic Media Center located in the Adler City District of Sochi, Imeretinsky Valley, on the Black Sea.

The match is over twelve games, with time controls of 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, 60 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 61. The games start at 3:00 p.m. Sochi Time, which is the same as Moscow time:

anand_carlsen4_e

Replay previous games of the match

Select from the dropdown menu to replay the games

Live comments on playchess.com

Schedule of live commentary, TV shows, training and tournaments

Playchess.com is Europe's largest chess server, as well as being the official server of the German Chess Federation. More than 4,000 players are logged on every evening, and you can play, chat, watch grandmaster games or take part in free chess training with friends from anywhere in the world. There is even a special room for beginners and hobby players where you can play games without a clock.

Get your Playchess membership instantly – or try it out with a single mouse click

Our team of World Championship commentators (English)

Irina Krush: The female in the commentator team, several times US Women's Champion.		Daniel King: Well known, popular, experienced, and very good. Author of many Fritztrainer DVDs
Simon Williams: Englisher grandmaster, author of two popular ChessBase King's Gambit DVDs.		Chris Ward: Dragon expert and chess commentator at the London Chess Classic.
Nicholas Pert: Grandmaster, trainer, and author of a number of excellent Fritztrainer DVDs.		Loek van Wely: Several times Dutch champion and quick-witted chess commentator.
Parimarjan Negi: Once the world's youngest grandmaster, author of books and DVDs.		Rustam Kasimdzhanov: The FIDE-World Champion 2004, former second for Vishy Anand

Live commentary on Playchess is also available in other languages:

German

• Klaus Bischoff: German Champion and Anchor of the German chess commentary on Playchess
• Oliver Reeh: Also known as "Tactics Reeh" for his regular column in the ChessBase magazine and the ChessBase website
• Dr. Karsten Müller: Graduated mathematician and chess grandmaster. His works on the endgame changed endgame training completely.
• Thomas Luther: Several times German champion. Active in the FIDE commission for the handicapped.
• Merijn van Delft: From the Dutch dynasty of the van Delfts. Lives in Hambug and in Holland.
• Yannick Pelletier: Several times Swiss champion. With a linguistic gift he can provide commentary in a number of languages.
• Markus Ragger: Grandmaster and Austria's number one.
• Harald Schneider-Zinner: Chess trainer and moderator of ChessBase TV Austria.

French

• Christian Bauer: Grandmaster, several time French Champion and member of the French national team.
• Fabien Libiszewski: International Master and member of the French national team.
• Romain Edouard: Grandmaster, European Junior Champion and Vice-World Junior Champion, member of the French national team.
• Sebastien Mazé: Grandmaster and French national coaach

Spanish

• Ana Matnadze, Marc Narcisco, Sergio Estremera

Links Official tournament site All games in PGN The games will be broadcast live on the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com with full GM commentary. If you are not a member of Playchess get instant access, but you can also use ChessBase 12 or any of our Fritz compatible chess programs to log on.