Actual Handbook
Regulations for the 2007 – 2009 World Chess Championship Cycle
4. World Championship Matches 2008-2009
4. 1. The winner of the World Cup will advance to the next stage of the World Championship cycle 2007-2009 and play a match against an opponent to be determined depending on the final results of the World Chess Championship Tournament (WCCT 2007) in Mexico:
4. 1. 1. If the winner of the WCCT 2007 in Mexico is any player other than GM Vladimir Kramnik, then a World Championship match of 12 games will be held within the period May-September 2008 between the reigning World Champion (winner of WCCT 2007) and the then previous World Champion GM Vladimir Kramnik (match A). The minimum net prize fund will be 1,000,000 USD.
At the same year 2008, and after match A, the winner of the World Cup 2007 will play a challengers match of 8 games against GM Veselin Topalov with a minimum net prize fund of 150,000 USD (match B).
In 2009 (within the first six months) a World Championship match will be held between the reigning World Champion (winner of match A) and the winner of match B.
4. 1. 2. If the winner of the WCCT 2007 in Mexico is GM Vladimir Kramnik, then a World Championship match of 12 games Kramnik – Topalov will be held within the period May-September 2008. The minimum net prize fund will be 1,000,000 USD.
In 2009 (within the first six months) the winner of the World Cup 2007 will play a World Championship match of 12 games against the winner of the World Championship match 2008 Kramnik – Topalov.
4. 2. In case a player wins the WCCT 2007 in Mexico, the World Cup 2007 in Khanty-Mansyisk and the 2008 World Championship Match, then the challengers match which is described in 4.1.1 will be organised as the World Championship Match 2009.
Here is the full set of regulations by FIDE.
Wonder what would happen to the cycle if Topalov gets a 3 year suspension by the fide ethics committee.
If he only gets a fine, or, say, 6 months, he’ll be back in plenty of time.
This is a joke. Elista forever tainted the image of chess. Many fans became (and still are) quite disillusioned with this egotistical group called “super-GM’s”.
Topalov, and to some extent others, have damaged the image of chess. Plus, why does the World Champion use his title and fame to promote, say, scholastic chess?
No matter who is the WCC is or will be, computers have proven they are better than the best human players. So, who is the best chess player on Earth: Rybka.
Any other name is not the best be it human or a program. The future of chess theory will come from computers not human creation.
Plus, computers will not act like babies and accuse their opponent of cheating.
1. Many fans doesn’t happen to mean “you” for any chance?
2. At a rough estimate, there are about 500 Super-GM’s worldwide. Can you tell me how they – as a group – act egoistic or are you, Mr. Anonymous, just generalising from part of them, or maybe just generalising from one or two?
3. Kramnik was visiting Dresden last week in order to promote the Olympics. Under his patronage, the participating nations were distributed to various schools in Germany as sponsors. Read: The WCC DOES promote scholastic chess.
4. A chess computer is better at chess than a human. So what? In any field of human competition, it is possible to build a machine that beats the strongest human. And still we enjoy to watch each other’s feeble attempts at competing with each other.
5. The future of chess theory will not come from computers. They only know the theory, they are programmed to know. There has been no new knowledge or theory generated by a chess computer.
In general unfair. Why these two Gms get such a treatment. One can understand of Kramnik, he is an unified world champion. Why such a treatment to Topa. Its unfair to all players especially Anand. Why not have a match C with Anand he being the highest rated player!!
Why is Topalov seeded into the final of the challegers doing absolutely nothing. The guy is a cheat. He took moves from Danailov who was using a computer.
I hope he gets 30 years ban from chess. We do not need Danailov and Topalov.