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Topic: World Chess Championship 2008 & 2009
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Just imagigine if Kramnik and Topalov won theirs respective matchs 
My vote go for Anand and Topalov
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On the FIDE congres last december in Singapore,
is already decided about the system for the
World Championship Match of 2010.
The Winner of the World Cup 2008 plays a match
against the Winner of the Grand Prix 2008/2009
in a 8 game match.
The Winner of this match challenges the 2009 World Champion.
The Grand Prix is a new tournament. It consist of
six single round robin tournaments with 14 player.
The players who will take part will compete
at 4 of the 6 tournaments.
In total 21 players will take part.
The tournaments are going to be held in 2008;
Baku (Azerbeidzjan), Krasnoyarsk (Russia) and Doha (Quatar),
and in 2009; Montreux (Switzerland), Elista (Russia) and
Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic).
Reserve cities are Istanbul (Turkey) and Teheran (Iran)
The 40 pre-selected players for the Grand-Prix;
The Russians; Kramnik, Morozovoch, Svidler, Jakovenko,
Alekseev, Gritschuk, Rublevsky, Malakhov, Inarkiev and
Zvjaginsev or Bareev, the Ucranians; Ivanchuk, Karjakin,
Donomariov and Eljanof, the Chinese; Wang Yue, Bu Xiangzhi
and Ni Hua, the Indians; Anand and Sasikiran, the Bulgarians;
Topalov and Cheparinov, the Azerbadjani; Mamedyarov and
Radjabov, the Hungarians; Leko and J.Polgar, the Armenians;
Aronian and Akopian, the Dutch; Sokolov and Van Wely,
and Shirov (Spain), Gelfand (Israel), Carlsen (Norway)
Kamsky (USA), Adams (England), Bacrot (France),
Dominquez-Perez (Cuba), Milov (Switzerland), Nisipeanu
(Romania), Kasimdzhanov (Uzbekistan) and Navara
(Czech Republic)
14 PLAYERS INVITED on the 7th. Feb.2008.
The four players which dispute the WC-cycle of 2008/2009
1.Viswanathan Anand (2) - India - 2799
2.Vladimir Kramnik (1) - Russia - 2799
3.Veselin Topalov (3) - Bulgaria - 2780
4.Gata Kamsky (15) - USA - 2726
The three semi-finalists of the World Cup 2007
5.Alexei Shirov (7) - Spain - 2763
6.Magnus Carlsen (13) - Norway - 2733
7.Sergey Karjakin (14) - Ucraine - 2732
Seven players, based on their rating
(A list has been composed, based on the players rating
from october`07 & January´08, in a formula, which
involves the number of games played in 2007 and jan.`08)
8.Vassily Ivanchuk (9) - Ucraine - 2751
9.Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (6) - Azerbaidzjan - 2760
10.Peter Leko (8) - Hungary - 2753
11.Alexander Morozevitch (4) - Russia - 2765
12.Levon Aronian (10) - Armenia - 2739
13.Teimour Radjabov (12) - Azerbaidzjan - 2739
14.Boris Gelfand (11) - Israël - 2711
Four reserves
1st.Michael Adams (16) - England - 2726
2nd.Peter Svidler (5) - Russia - 2763
3rd.Judit Polgar (22) - Hungary - 2707
4th.Alexander Gritschuk (21) - Russia - 2711
FIDE Presidential invitation
The Fide president will nominate 1 player from the top 40 list
as shown above. The president will invite another player,
if one of the first four don`t wish to take part.
This players has to be in the Top 40 as well, but has
to come from another country as the first nominated one.
One invitation by each host city
Each host city may invite one player to take part, with a
minimum rating of 2550. If the host city don´t have one,
the national federation of this country, may invite
their number 1 player, if this player has a rating
of at least 2500.
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Resume:
World Championship 2008
Anand vs. Kramnik
World Championship 2009
Winner Anand/Kramnik vs. Winner Topalov/Kamsky
World Championship 2010
Winner (Winner World Cup 2009 versus Winner Grand Prix 2008/2009)
versus
World Champion 2009 (Anand or Kramnik or Topalov or Kamsky)
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