The World Chess Championship is set to start in a few days time. The newly re-unified undisputed world chess title is held by Vladimir Kramnik of Russia (shown left), a title he won less than year ago, winning a 12 game match against the then world-ranked number one, Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria). However, Kramnik has held a version of the world title since beating Garry Kasparov (Russia) in 2000, a title he defended against Peter Leko (Hungary) in 2004.
This year the World Championship is to be held in Mexico City, and is in tournament format. After this year, the World Championship will return to the traditional match format.
Eight players have qualified to play in Mexico, (name, country, Elo rating, world ranking below):
Viswanathan Anand, India, 2792, 1st
Vladimir Kramnik, Russia, 2769, joint 2nd
Alexander Morozevich, Russia, 2762, 4th
Levon Aronian, Armenia, 2761, 5th
Peter Leko, Hungary, 2738, 8th
Peter Svidler, Russia, 2736, 9th
Boris Gelfand, Israel, 2733, 13th
Alexander Grischuk, Russia, 2717, 16th
Current favourites are Kramnik and Anand. 13th September is the first day of play and results can be followed on http://www.chessmexico.com/
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