Candidates Matches-2011 |
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 Goal: determine the challenger - a grandmaster who would face Viswanathan Anand in a World Chess Championship match in 2012 Venue and schedule: Russia, Kazan. May 3-27. Games start at 15 local time (7 a.m. EST) Rules: knock-out system. 4 classical games in the 1/4 and 1/2-finals, 6 classical games in the final. Tie-breaks: 4 rapid games, then up to 5 pairs of blitz games, then Armageddon Prizes: 30,000 for reaching 1/4; 60,000 for reaching 1/2; 90,000 for the finalists. Naturally, the winner of the event will be eligible for a World Championship match (expected pay-cheque of about 500,000 - 1,000,000) Participants & pairings: Levon Aronian, Armenia, 2808 Alexander Grischuk, Russia, 2747 Vladimir Kramnik, Russia, 2785 Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijan, 2744 Veselin Topalov, Bulgaria, 2775 Gata Kamsky, USA, 2732 Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Boris Gelfand, Israel, 2733 Azerbaijan, 2772 Semi-finals: Aronian or Grischuk vs Kramnik or Radjabov Topalov or Kamsky vs Mamedyarov or Gelfand Who will become The One? Public opinion is quite predictable in this respect. Aronian (#3 in the world rankings), Kramnik (#4) and Topalov (#7) tend to be the leaders no matter where and how you run the poll. Here are a few examples: Chess.com: Aronian (38%), Kramnik (25%), Topalov (20%). Combined: 83%. Votes: 3909 Pogonina.com: Aronian, Kramnik, Topalov (the poll had Carlsen instead of Grischuk, so we had to disregard Magnus' result to obtain a more or less accurate prediction). Votes: 447 RussiaChess.org: Aronian (51.7%), Kramnik (27.5%), Topalov (9.1%). Combined: 88.3%. Votes: 298 Official website 
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