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The World Chess Championship 2012 is being 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 is over twelve games and lasts from May 11 to 30. The prize fund is US $2.55 million, the winner getting $1.53 million (60%), the loser $1,02 million (40%).
King: In spite of the tangible tensions that were there in the first two drawn games, they were not exactly to the taste of a lot of chess fans around the world who are looking for more exciting encounters. I am sure the match will catch fire as some point. To satisfy the blood lust of a lot of you out there I am going to show you a game from the World Championship match from two years ago between Anand and Topalov, which was a very different kind of encounter. – Daniel King goes on to show us game four of the match in 2010.
GM
Robert Fontaine and his video producer Gérard Demuydt are in Moscow produced
video reports and interviews after each round for the French chess magazine
Europe Echecs. In the round two
report we see the arrival of players, a short résumé of the game,
the press conference with the home prep of Vishy 17…Bf5, and small interviews
with Joel Lautier regarding this start of the match.
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Vishy! The World Champion in a post game press conference
Typical posture of Boris Gelfand when he is pondering a position
Anand and Gelfand discuss the second game while chief arbiter Ashot Vardapetyan
from Armenia and deputy Hal Bond from Canada look on
The challenger Boris Gelfand from Israel
Press Officer of Russian Chess Federation Mark Glukhovsky
FIDE Press Officer Anastasia Karlovich (Ukraine)
Tournament photographer Eteri Kublashvili
Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the RCF, and aide to the
President of the Russian Federation, Arkady Dvorkovich
General Director of the State Tretyakov Gallery Irina Lebedeva
A private moment between Anand and wife Aruna
Photos by Anastasia Karlovich and Alexey Yushenkov
Players | Rtng |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
Tot. |
Perf. |
+/– |
Vishy Anand | 2791 |
½ |
½ |
1.0 |
2727 |
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Boris Gelfand | 2727 |
½ |
½ |
1.0 |
2791 |
Days of play, with live commentators on Playchess.com. Note that the games start at 15:00h local time = 13:00 CEST, 07 a.m. New York or here in your location.
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Links
The games are being broadcast live on the official web site and on the chess server Playchess.com. If you are not a member you can download a free Playchess client there and get immediate access. You can also use ChessBase 11 or any of our Fritz compatible chess programs. |
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