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| Aug-10-09 | | WhiteRook48: 2009 Topalov-Anand, who wins? |
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| Aug-10-09 | | Dredge Rivers: <WhiteRook48> No one, because they aren't playing until 2010! Do try to keep up! |
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Oct-12-09
 | | HeMateMe: Just realized, looking over the old list of champions, how they got there, that Topalov never actually won a match to be champion. He won a sort of Candidates tournament, kind of like when Alekhine died and they held a tournament in 1948 to crown a new chess champion. This might be Topalov's last chance, the match coming up with Anand. Magnus Carlsen seems to be gaining steam. |
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| May-29-10 | | indianchessupdates: . <Topalov never actually won a match to be champion> For me the 2005 tournament is on Par with the 2007 Tournament and 1948 Tournament - All were World Championship I would call(Anand, Topalov, Kramnik) all three equals after Legendry Kasaparov's retirement |
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| May-29-10 | | indianchessupdates: . Bogoljubov vs Euwe - Two FIDE Championships
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Game Collection: Bogoljubov vs Euwe - Two FIDE Championships In 1928 and early 1929 Efim Bogoljubov and Max Euwe played two matches in Netherland. The first match was played in Amsterodam, Hague and Scheveningen and shortly before its beginning FIDE announced a bit surprisingly in a letter sent to both players that the winner of their match would become Champion of the FIDE. This decision of FIDE was mainly based on and backed by the fact that Max Euwe won Amateur world championship tournament in Hague 1928. The match got a nationwide attention in Netherland and Bogoljubov won it with score 5,5:4,5 (+3-2=5). The success of the first match was so great that one rich chess enthusiast decided to finance a match-revenge, that was held in several cities of Netherland in the end of 1928 and the beginning of 1929. Bogoljubov won this match with the same score as the first one 5,5:4,5 (+2-1=7). FIDE’s fifth Congress awarded him the title “Champion of FIDE” In short, the General Assembly approved the Central Committee’s decision to adopt the Bogoljubow v Euwe contest as the first match for the title of FIDE champion |
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| Jul-17-10 | | jbtigerwolf: I have an idea for the World Chess Championship. It breaks with tradition. Chess is not boxing; that sport has the same type of system as chess, because it is too difficult to stage a boxing world championship from scratch every so often, given the nature of the contest. Chess should be run more along the lines of golf. Not a knock-out tournament like tennis, but every player still goes into the competition from the early rounds to the final. Okay, here it is... drum roll...
My Idea For The World Chess Championship:
Have 3 groups of 8 players, the best rated 24 in the world. They should be invited 3 months in advance. Each group should contain players thus: Group A: 1,6,12,14,18,20,23,24.
Group B: 2,5,11,13,17,19,21,22.
Group C: 3,4, 7, 8, 9, 10,15,16.
Format:
Each group has 14 rounds, with every player playing the others twice, once with each colour.
After all 3 groups are completed, the highest group winner gains a spot in the Final.
The other two group winners play off in a Semi Final match of 8 games. If it is tied, then the highest rated player goes to the Final match of 12 games. i.e. player 1 wins group A with 11.5/14 and player 2 wins group B with 9/14 and player 4 wins group C with 10/14. Player 1 (highest rated player in World, if it is not already obvious) got the most points. He was in the easiest group, but that's his reward for being top-rated. He's in the Final. Player 4 scored more than player 2, but if their Semi Final is tied, then player 2 goes to the Final, again, that's his reward for being higher rated. If there is a tie for 1st place in any group,then the higher rated player goes through. All this 'ratings decide the tie-breaks' may seem unfair, but it is to avoid short games deciding what is really the standard game Chess Championship of The World. It is in the spirit of Championships past when, if there was a tie, the incumbent champion stayed Champ. All the games in the group stage should be played, to both help with ratings and to decide the waiting Finalist / Semi Finalists. Prize money should be hefty, to discourage truancy and 2nds, 3rds, 4ths in each group should get large amounts to encourage struggling players to play harder even if they cannot finish on top. For the Semi and the Final, once a match is determined (a score of 4.5 or 6.5 respectively) the match is over. This makes sense. It can be held annually or bi-annually. |
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| Jul-20-10 | | dumbgai: <I would call(Anand, Topalov, Kramnik) all three equals after Legendry Kasaparov's retirement> Really? Anand beat both Topalov and Kramnik, and Topalov lost to both Anand and Kramnik...yet you consider them equals? |
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| Jul-20-10 | | SatelliteDan: Anand's style reminds me of a combination of both Kramnik and Topalov. |
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| Dec-14-10 | | kevins55555: ♙ |
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| Apr-05-11 | | Kinghunt: <dumbgai: <I would call(Anand, Topalov, Kramnik) all three equals after Legendry Kasaparov's retirement> Really? Anand beat both Topalov and Kramnik, and Topalov lost to both Anand and Kramnik...yet you consider them equals?> Match play is only half of the issue. Topalov has won a lot of recent tournaments. Anand has not won a tournament in four years. |
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| Apr-05-11 | | shivasuri4: 4 years,<kinghunt>?It's been 3 years and 1.5 months or so now.Not really Anand's fault all the time.You can't schedule two world championship matches so close together and expect him to win 'practice'
tourneys before the matches.Besides,I think Kasparov retired in 2005,not 2008.So I would place Anand slightly ahead of the other two. |
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| Apr-05-11 | | Kinghunt: I would actually tend to agree with you that of the three of them, Anand is the strongest. I was just pointing out that match scores are not the whole story, because while his record is the best in post-2005 match play, his tournament record is absolutely atrocious. My mistake, it's "only" been more than three years since Anand won a tournament. He's entered plenty, just without success. Past world champions have managed to win plenty of tournaments even while preparing for matches. In the five year period from 1985-1990, Kasparov played four title matches and yet managed to win 10 (consecutive!) tournaments. Karpov did likewise. Kramnik wasn't a particularly active champion, but he did manage to win about half of the tournaments he entered in. Here is a list of Anand's tournaments from the past 3.5 years: Corus 2008: Shared 3-4
Linares 2008: 1st, most recent tournament victory
Bilbao 2008: 6th (of 6, aka, dead last)
Linares 2009: 4th
Moscow 2009: Shared 4-5
Corus 2010: Shared 4-5
Bilbao 2010: 2nd (of 4)
Nanjing 2010: 2nd
London 2010: 2nd
Corus 2011: 2nd
So on the bright side, Anand is now getting more second place finishes and fewer 4-5 place or even outright last finishes. On the other hand, he's gone 8 consecutive tournaments without a win, and for half of them, he wasn't even on the podium. Has a reigning world champion ever had such a streak of poor tournament results before? |
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| Apr-06-11 | | shivasuri4: <Kinghunt>,you shouldn't bring Kasparov into the equation here.He's obviously at a different plane from the trio we are talking of.You should also note that he's been upstaged by players who have been in really strong form.For example,his Corus score this year would have given him at least shared first in some of the previous tourneys but Nakamura beat him to the post.The last two years have largely been all about Carlsen. Unfortunately,Anand has been the champion at a time when a series of players have relatively overperformed in tourneys.Precious little that Anand can do about it.The only place I would blame him would be at Bilbao last year when he didn't do enough to try and win the tourney,although one could say Kramnik was in really good form then.I disagree with you when you say that he's been having poor results.Anand's just having a series of modest results,the only poor one being the Bilbao 2008 tourney. |
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Dec-28-11
 | | Penguincw: Almost every game has a picture. |
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Dec-29-11
| | Penguincw: 3-1-0 System
Topalov 26
Anand 22
Svidler 21
Morozevich 17
Leko 16
Kasimdzhanov 13
Adams 11
Polgar 10
Hopefully I didn't make any mistakes. |
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| May-21-14 | | Chessinfinite: <I would call(Anand, Topalov, Kramnik) all three equals after Legendry Kasaparov's retirement> Nonsense, Anand > Kramnik or Topalov, as he proved in match play. Though Topalov is closer to Anand in strength than Kramnik . Funny thing is Topalov of 2005-2010 was incredibly strong, in the league of Anand , and even higher than Anand on occasions, but in match play- Anand simply has better understanding of chess overall taken over longer duration results as is also shown in their match. Get your thoughts straight, if winning a hard fought match meant nothing, then it would not make sense to play chess at all. Get this - Post 2007, after Anand became World champion, Anand's score against Kramnik = +4, Anand's score against Topalov = +3. Try calling that equal. What is it with these <Indianxxxxxx> handles that enjoy making themselves look funny ? |
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| May-22-14 | | Petrosianic: After Kasparov's retirement, Anand and Kramnik both became undisputec champion, while Topalov didn't, and lost his matches to both of the other two, so Topalov will always finish 3rd when ranking those three. But he may score high on lists of greatest players to never be world champion. |
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| Nov-28-14 | | Markov47: <Though Topalov is closer to Anand in strength than Kramnik.> Nonsense. As Petrosianic said, Topalov lost to Kramnik in their match, also Kramnik is a former WC, while Topalov never was one. Kramnik defeated Kasparov to become WC, while Topalov... |
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| Nov-28-14 | | Absentee: Closer in strength to whom, WHEN? In 2005-2006 Topalov was by all evidence stronger than both. He was first at Linares 2005 (ahead of Anand), Mtel Masters 2005 (ahead of Anand and Kramnik) and 2006 (ahead of Anand) and Corus A 2006 (tied with Anand). |
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Nov-28-14
 | | alexmagnus: One could also ask who was stronger at their respective peak, but as always with comparing playing level trough time, there are problems here.... Anyway, here possible ratings based on rating:
Peak Elo:
Anand 2817
Topalov 2813
Kramnik 2811
Peak distance to #2:
Topalov 34
Anand 23
Kramnik 0
Peak distance to #10:
Kramnik 110
Anand 105
Topalov 84
Funny how depending on the criterium all three players come on top. Anand is the only player not to be last by any criterium :D |
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| Mar-15-16 | | Conrad93: Toplaov was never actually a legitimate World Champion, but this is a nice tournament victory. |
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| Jan-25-18 | | Caissanist: It's a shame that Topalov will probably be remembered as "just another name in the roster of questionable FIDE Champions," because he really was the best player in the world in 2005. His time at the top was short, but quite impressive. |
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Apr-02-18
 | | FSR: I hadn't realized that Svidler tied for second with Anand, 1.5 points behind Topalov. Not too shabby. |
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Dec-12-21
 | | Ron: This World Championship had a King's Indian Defense played: FIDE World Championship Tournament (2005) But all subsequent championships, whether they were in match or tournament format, did not have a King's Indian Defense. I welcome others to check my claim. |
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Feb-18-25
 | | plang: The book on San Luis 2005 by Alik Gershon and Igor Nor is really excellent. I wish they had done something like that for every Candidates Tournament. |
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