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The World Championship 2007 is taking place from September 12 to 30 in the Sheraton Centro Histórico Hotel in Mexico City. Eight players are qualified – the tournament is a double round robin. The prize fund is US $1.3 million.
| Round 11: Tuesday, Sept. 25th 2007, 14:00h | ||
Boris Gelfand |
Peter Svidler | |
Peter Leko |
Levon Aronian | |
Alexander Grischuk |
Vladimir Kramnik | |
Viswanathan Anand |
Alexander Morozevich | |
Note: a number of readers have asked us what the numbers in the column after the ratings are. These are the Elo performances of the players. For instance: Anand is rated 2792. The results he has provided so far would be normal and expected for a player rated 2880, so he has played 88 points above his nominal rating. Gelfand's performance is 2784, Morozevich is playing as if his rating was 2691 (2758 – 67).
Full chess commentary by GM Mihail Marin will follow
Viswanathan Anand at the start of his game against Alexander Morozevich
Alexander Morozevich facing the Indian top seed with the black pieces
Levon Aronian facing Peter Leko with the black pieces
Alexander Grischuk with white against Vladimir Kramnik's Petroff
Peter Leko and Levon Aronian, both at 50%, eager to improve their standings
Boris Gelfand and Peter Svidler in their typical working positions
Peter Svidler often closes his eyes to think about the position
Occasionally he will open his eyes to glance at the position
Alexander Grischuk playing against Kramnik
Vladimir Kramnik thinking
The two playing the shortest game of the tournament so far
Anand vs Morozevich, the game of the day
The games of round eleven are under way
35 minutes after the start of the round Grischuk and Kramnik are in the
press conference
Kramnik was asked why he chose to play the Petroff in this critical situation where he needs every point he can possible get to defend his title. Before he could answere Grischuk grabbed the mike and said: "Yes, I too would like to ask the same question." Kramnik explained that the Petroff can be a sharp weapon, as he had previously shown, and that he had prepared it as his chief opening for this event.
Meanwhile on another board: Peter Leko watches Anand vs Morovich reach its
climax
Morozevich, in deep trouble, rotates a pawn in his right hand
Anand, who know he is winning, has left the stage to pace the players' rest
area
Anand is back, and Morozevich looking for a final desperate way to save
the game...
... but in the end streches out his hand in surrender
The arbiters rush in to complete the paper work of Anand's victory
The two players remain on the stage to analyse their game in animated discussion...
... since all the other games are over, and they have the stage all to themselves
A chess couple has been rooting for their hero with two Tamil signs saying "Victory"
and "Anand" (the equivalent of "Go, Anand!"). David Johnson,
right, is Canadian, Ranjana Ariaratnam, middle, is Californian with roots in
Tamil Sri Lanka. On the left is Anand's wife Aruna.
The two ladies talk, somewhat disappointingly, in English, although both
are fluent in Tamil
Anand and Morozevich in their press conference. Note that at this world championship
all players have appeared to speak to the press, even after bitter defeats.
We hope that Mexico has set an example that will be followed by other super
tournaments.
Photos by Frederic Friedel in Mexico City
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Playchess commentator GM Yasser Seirawan
The games of the World Championship 2007, which start at 14:00h local time (check the time in your location here), will be broadcast live on the official site and on Playchess.com server, where there will be daily live audio commentary by GM Yasser Seirawan, with a minimum of three one hour lectures per round, beginning approximately thirty minutes after play has started. For a charge of ten Ducats (about one Euro) a visitor gets a twelve hour pass to listen to the live lectures.
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