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The World Championship 2007 will take place from September 12 to 30 in the Sheraton Centro Histórico Hotel in Mexico City. Eight players are qualified – the tournament will be a double round robin. The prize fund is US $1.3 million.

Round one express report

Round 1: Thursday, Sept. 13th 2007, 14:00h
Vladimir Kramnik	½-½	Peter Svidler
Alexander Morozevich	½-½	Levon Aronian
Viswanathan Anand	½-½	Boris Gelfand
Alexander Grischuk	½-½	Peter Leko
Games – Report

Full chess commentary by GM Mihail Marin will follow tomorrow.

There were 7500 visitors on the Playchess server, where GM Yasser Seirawan was doing audio commentary on the games. At the same time we had a special guest providing video commentary.

Above is Yasser Seirawan doing a great job explaining ideas and plans in the games. There are a minimum of three one-hour lectures per round, beginning approximately thirty minutes after play has started. For a charge of ten Ducats (about one Euro) a visitor gets a twelve hour pass to listen to Yasser's live lectures.

The special guest was former FIDE world champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov, who together with IM Oliver Reeh (on the left in the image above) did live audio and video commentary. However, it was in German. Rustam has lived for three years in this country and speaks the language not just well, but fluently, elegantly and with full idiomatic command. This broadcast is free.

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Pictures from round one

Vladimir Kramnik at the start of his game against Peter Svidler

Peter Svidler facing his friend and opponent in a round one game with black

Muy, muy tired: Boris Gelfand before his black game against Anand

The Armenian battle force: Levon Aronian in white with black against Morozevich

Alexander Morozevich facing a Queen's Indian against Aronian

Alexander Grischuk, with white against Peter Leko

Vladimir Kramnik and Peter Svidler analyse after their game

The reigning world champion ponders what went right and wrong in this game

Alexander Grischuk and Peter Leko analysing

Levon Aronian and Alexander Morozevich in their press conference

Cheer up Jorge, everything went fine! Spiritus rector of the world championship Jorge Saggiante

All pictures from Mexico provided by Ali Nihat Yazici

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Videos by Europe Echecs

Impressions from the openings ceremony in Mexico

The drawing of lots for the pairings

A short visit to the playing hall

Videos provided from Mexico by Europe Echecs

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Full Schedule and Results (first half)

Round 1: Thursday, Sept. 13th 2007, 14:00h Vladimir Kramnik ½-½ Peter Svidler Alexander Morozevich ½-½ Levon Aronian Viswanathan Anand ½-½ Boris Gelfand Alexander Grischuk ½-½ Peter Leko Games – Report	Round 2: Friday, Sept. 14th 2007, 14:00h Peter Svidler Peter Leko Boris Gelfand Alexander Grischuk Levon Aronian Viswanathan Anand Vladimir Kramnik Alexander Morozevich Games – Report
Round 3: Saturday, Sept. 15th 2007, 14:00h Alexander Morozevich Peter Svidler Viswanathan Anand Vladimir Kramnik Alexander Grischuk Levon Aronian Peter Leko Boris Gelfand Games – Report	Round 4: Sunday, Sept 16th 2007, 14:00h Peter Svidler Boris Gelfand Levon Aronian Peter Leko Vladimir Kramnik Alexander Grischuk Alexander Morozevich Viswanathan Anand Games – Report
Free day: Monday, Sept. 17th 2007	Round 5: Tuesday, Sept. 18th 2007, 14:00h Viswanathan Anand Peter Svidler Alexander Grischuk Alexander Morozevich Peter Leko Vladimir Kramnik Boris Gelfand Levon Aronian Games – Report
Round 6: Wednesday, Sept. 19th 2007, 14:00h Peter Svidler Levon Aronian Vladimir Kramnik Boris Gelfand Alexander Morozevich Peter Leko Viswanathan Anand Alexander Grischuk Games – Report	Round 7: Thursday, Sept. 20th 2007, 14:00h Alexander Grischuk Peter Svidler Peter Leko Viswanathan Anand Boris Gelfand Alexander Morozevich Levon Aronian Vladimir Kramnik Games – Report

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Live coverage by Yasser Seirawan on Playchess

Playchess commentator GM Yasser Seirawan

The games of the World Championship 2007, which start at 14:00h local time (check the time in your location here), will be broadcast live on the official site and on Playchess.com server, where there will be daily live audio commentary by GM Yasser Seirawan, with a minimum of three one hour lectures per round, beginning approximately thirty minutes after play has started. For a charge of ten Ducats (about one Euro) a visitor gets a twelve hour pass to listen to the live lectures.

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Round 1 Game 1 (May, 27 2007) - Watch | Download PGN | Commented
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Round 1 Tie Break Game 1 (June, 3 2007) - Watch | Download PGN | Commented
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Round 2 Tie Break Game 1 (June, 13 2007) - Watch | Download PGN
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In 2010, Khanty-Mansiysk will conduct World Chess Olympiad. The right to be a hostess of 39th Chess Olympiad 2010 Ugra gained on the 77th FIDE Congress, which took place in Torino/ Italy in June 2006. The preparation for the Olympiad is in the process at the moment. The venue is chosen, it will be a new tennis center, which is planned to be built by this august. The new project constructions are considered (Chess center, hotels, roads) as well as reconstruction of the old ones. For example, the reconstruction of the airport is planned. And what is important, the chess players of Ugra are getting ready for the Olympiad- the team of okrug is formed.

All games were drawn in the first round of the World Championship in Mexico City. Defending world champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia and compatriot Peter Svidler drew in 23 moves of the latter`s Semi-Slav defense. Armenian Lev Aronian essayed the Queen`s Indian defense against Russian Alexander Morozevich and drew in 25 moves. Boris Gelfand of Israel used the Petroff Defense to draw in 22 moves against world top rated Viswanathan Anand of India. Russian Alexander Grischuk and Hungarian Peter Leko played to a draw in 28 moves of a Ruy Lopez. Visit the official web site. See Chessbase report.

Videos of the tournament are available on www.europe-echecs.com.

Download Round 1 games in pgn.

Round 1: Thursday, Sept. 13th 2007
Vladimir Kramnik	½-½	Peter Svidler
Alexander Morozevich	½-½	Levon Aronian
Viswanathan Anand	½-½	Boris Gelfand
Alexander Grischuk	½-½	Peter Leko
Chessbase Report

(1) Kramnik,V (2769) - Svidler,P (2735) [D43]
WCh Mexico City MEX (1), 13.09.2007

1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bxf6 Qxf6 7.e3 Nd7 8.Bd3 g6 9.e4 dxc4 10.e5 Qe7 11.Bxc4 Bg7 12.0-0 0-0 13.Re1 Rd8 14.Qe2 b6 15.Rad1 a5 16.Bd3 Bb7 17.Be4 b5 18.h4 Nb6 19.Bb1 c5 20.Nxb5 Ba6 21.h5 g5 22.Nh2 Rxd4 23.Rxd4 1/2-1/2

(2) Morozevich,A (2758) - Aronian,L (2750) [E12]
WCh Mexico City MEX (1), 13.09.2007


1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.a3 Bb7 5.Nc3 d5 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.e3 g6 8.h4 Bg7 9.h5 Nd7 10.Bd3 Nxc3 11.bxc3 e5 12.Qc2 Qe7 13.Be4 Bxe4 14.Qxe4 0-0 15.hxg6 hxg6 16.a4 c5 17.Ba3 Rfe8 18.Rc1 exd4 19.Qxe7 Rxe7 20.cxd4 Re4 21.Kf1 cxd4 22.exd4 Nf8 23.g3 Rd8 24.Rc7 Ree8 25.Rxa7 Ra8 1/2-1/2

(3) Anand,V (2792) - Gelfand,B (2733) [C42]
WCh Mexico City MEX (1), 13.09.2007


1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Nc3 Nxc3 6.dxc3 Be7 7.Be3 Nd7 8.Qd2 Ne5 9.0-0-0 0-0 10.h4 Re8 11.h5 Bf6 12.Nh2 h6 13.Be2 Be6 14.f4 Nc4 15.Bxc4 Bxc4 16.b3 Bb5 17.Rhg1 Re4 18.Ng4 Qe7 19.Rde1 Re8 20.Bf2 Qd8 21.Rxe4 Rxe4 22.Re1 Rxe1+ 1/2-1/2

(4) Grischuk,A (2726) - Leko,P (2751) [C88]
WCh Mexico City MEX (1), 13.09.2007


1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.h3 Bb7 9.d3 d6 10.a3 Qd7 11.Nc3 Rfe8 12.a4 b4 13.Ne2 d5 14.exd5 Nxd5 15.Ng3 Bf8 16.a5 Nd4 17.Nxd4 exd4 18.Bd2 Nf6 19.Rxe8 Rxe8 20.Bg5 Qc6 21.Qf1 Qd6 22.Re1 Re5 23.Rxe5 Qxe5 24.Bxf6 Qxf6 25.Qe2 g6 26.Qg4 Bd6 27.Ne4 Qf4 28.Qxf4 1/2-1/2

Photos from Chessbase by their reporter and photographer in Mexico, Ali Nihat Yazici, President of the Turkish Chess Federation.




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