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 Viswanathan Anand |
 Vladimir Kramnik | |||||
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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 | |||||
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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]
- ^ a b "Topalov tops the October 2008 FIDE ratings". Chess News. ChessBase. 2008-09-30. Retrieved 2016-04-07.
- ^ UEP press release