The World Chess Championship (WCC) Mexico 2007 has started. All games drawn in round 1! Round 2 starts today at 21.00 CEST time (14.00 MEX)!

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Round 2:
Kramnik-Morozevich
Aronian-Anand
Gelfand-Grischuk
Svidler-Leko
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Mexico 2007 World Chess Championship starts today. Lot:
1.Kramnik, 2.Morizevich, 3.Anand, 4.Grischuk, 5.Leko, 6.Gelfand, 7.Aronian, 8.Svidler

Round 1 pairings (full pairings below) (Mexico 2007 World Chess Championship):
Kramnik - Svidler
Morozevich - Aronian
Anand - Gelfand
Grischuk - Leko

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The Mexico 2007 World Chess Championship tournament will take place in Mexico City (Mexico), September 12 - October 1, 2007. The games will be played in the 5-star Sheraton Centro Histуrico Hotel.
The participants in Mexico WCC 2007 are: Viswanathan Anand (2792), Vladimir Kramnik (2769), Alexander Morozevich (2758), Peter Leko (2751), Levon Aronian (2750), Peter Svidler (2735), Boris Gelfand (2733), Alexander Grischuk (2726).

The opening ceremony of the championship is scheduled 19.00 local time (02.00 CEST - Central European Summer Time, 03.00 - EEST, 04.00 in Moscow).
1st round is scheduled for the 13th of September - 14.00 local time. Everyone should expect some delay of the 1st round.
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The history of World chess championships

Unofficial Champions (before 1886)

The official world championship is generally regarded to have begun in 1886, when the two leading players in the world played a match. However, a line of players regarded as the strongest (or at least the most famous) in the world extends back hundreds of years beyond them, and these players are sometimes considered the world champions of their time.

The Mexico 2007 FIDE World Chess Championship will take place in Mexico City (Mexico), beginning 12th September.

Boris Gelfand is 39 years old and he is the oldest player in the World chess championship (WCC) 2007 in Mexico city. His FIDE rating is 2733.

Update 2008-10: World Chess Championship Match Bonn 2008 - Anand vs. Kramnik

The WCC Mexico 2007 will take place in Mexico City (Mexico), beginning 12th September.

In 2002 Levon Aronian became World Junior Champion. In 2004 he progressed to the 3rd round of the FIDE World Championship but was knocked out by Pavel Smirnov.

The WCC Mexico 2007 will take place in Mexico City (Mexico), beginning 12th September.

Peter Svidler learned to play chess when he was six years old. He is four-time Russian champion (last in 2003). In 2001, he reached the semi-finals of the FIDE World Championship.
He is Chess960 World Champion for 3 years in a row (2003-2005).
He became shared second (together with Anand) in the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 with 8.5 points out of 14 games. Currently his FIDE rating is 2735 (No. 12 on the July 2007). His best rating was 2765 in January 2006.

Update 2008-07: Viswanathan Anand against Vladimir Kramnik on the World Chess Championship Match 2008 (WCC Match 2008) in Bonn, Germany!



The World Chess Championship Mexico 2007 will take place in Mexico City (Mexico), beginning 12th September.

The Indian grandmaster Viswanathan Anand is considered as the main pretender for winning World Chess Championship Mexico 2007. Now, he is top rated player in the world (2792) and also he is one of only four chess players, which crossed 2800 elo rating (the others are Kasparov, Kramnik and Topalov).

The World Chess Championship Mexico 2007 will take place in Mexico City (Mexico), September 12 - October 1, 2007. One of the participants is current world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik from Russia. His path to the World chess title and WCC Mexico 2007:

November 2, 2000, London: Vladimir Kramnik became the 14th World Chess Champion with a brilliant 8.5-6.5 result against Garry Kasparov, who could not win a single game. After Garry Kasparov had congratulated him, the greatest dream of his life became true: World Chess Champion...