World Chess Championship 2008

World Chess Championship 2008
 
Defending champion
Challenger
 
Viswanathan Anand
Viswanathan Anand
  India Viswanathan Anand Russia Vladimir Kramnik
 
Scores
  Born 11 December 1969
38 years old
Born 25 June 1975
33 years old
  Winner of the 2007 World Chess Championship Winner of the 2006 World Chess Championship
  Rating: 2783
(World No. 5)[1]
Rating: 2772
(World No. 6)[1]
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The World Chess Championship 2008 was a best-of-twelve-games match between the incumbent World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, and the previous World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik. Kramnik had been granted a match after not winning the World Chess Championship 2007 tournament.

After eleven games, Anand successfully defended his title by a final score of 6½–4½ (three victories and one defeat).

The match took place at the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bonn, Germany, between 14 October and 29 October 2008.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Topalov tops the October 2008 FIDE ratings". Chess News. ChessBase. 2008-09-30. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
  2. ^ UEP press release