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27 September – 16 October 2005
FIDE World chess championship 2005
 
San Luis, Argentina / 8 players / XX category
The FIDE World Championship in San Luis is the reality in which nobody believed. Themight-have-been match Ponomariov – Kasparov in 2003 year also scheduled in Argentinainstilled no optimism. Now it is for real. The participants arrived to San Luis; the prize fund isguaranteed. Three years late Illumzhinov finally managed to follow out FIDE champion cycle.En route to this final chess lost Kasparov; no one promises Kramnik the match with thewinner... Nevertheless, in Argentina we will be treated with one of the most exciting chessevents of the decade. Most of top players are participating. A thrilling fight awaits us. Thestakes are extremely high!
 Vishwanathan ANAND
(IND)Born on 11.12.1969 Elo 1.07.2005 –2788Champion of the world FIDE Ko 2000Champion of the world (rapid) 2003 Winnerof the World Cup 2000, 2002 Four-timeswinner of the Oscar voting
Best in FIDE Ko
– winner in 2000 year
 
 Veselin TOPALOV
(BUL)Born on 15.03.1975 Elo 1.07.2005 –2788World FIDE Ko semifinalist 20041st place in Sofia 2005 1st in Madrid1996 1st in Amsterdam 1996 1st inNovgorod 1996
Best in FIDE Ko
– semifinal in 2004 year
 
Peter LEKO
(HUN)Born on 8.09.1979 Elo 1.07.2005 – 2763World chess championship vs Kramnik 2004 – 7:7Winner of candidates tournament inDortmund 2002 1st in Linares 2003 1st inWijk aan Zee 2005
Best in FIDE Ko
– 1/16 final in 2000 year
 
Peter SVIDLER 
(RUS)Born on 17.06.1976 Elo 1.07.2005 –2738Champion of Russia 1994, 1995, 1997 and2003World FIDE Ko semifinalist 20011st place in Tilburg 1997 1st in Biel 2000
Best in FIDE Ko
– semifinal in 2001 year
Player's list
Judit POLGAR 
(HUN)Born on 23.07.1976 Elo 1.07.2005 –2735Champion of Hungary 19911st place in Hastings 1992 1st in Madrid19941st in Hoogoven 1998, 2001 and 2003
Best in FIDE Ko
– quarterfinal in 1999 year
 
Michael ADAMS
(ENG)Born on 17.11.1971 Elo 1.07.2005 –2719World FIDE Ko finalist 2004Semifinalist World FIDE Ko 1997, 1999 and20001st place in Dos-Hermanas 1999
Best in FIDE Ko
– final in 2004 year
 
 Alexander MOROZEVICH
(RUS)Born on 18.07.1977 Elo 1.07.2005 –2707Champion of Russia 19981st place in Biel 2003, 2004 1st inKishinev 19981st in Monaco Melody Amber 2002 and 2004 
Best in FIDE Ko
– 1/8 final in 2001 year
 
Rustam KASIMDZHANOV
(UZB)Born on 5.12.1979 Elo 1.07.2005 – 2670Champion of the world FIDE Ko 2004Champion of Asia 1998 vicechampion20031st place in Essen 2001 1st in Pune 2004 
Best in FIDE Ko
– winner in 2004 year
Page 1of 2WORLD CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2005 -INDEXKid Chaos :)
 
By grandmaster
Sergey SHIPOV
 
1.e2-e4 and White loses!
 
My congratulations to all chess fans with a new grandiose event! The tournament inArgentina will determine the most legitimate World Champion for the last severalyears.
There are many excellent GMs who could have joined the battle for the title. I would suggest thefollowing eight: Kasparov, Kramnik, Shirov, Ivanchuk, Ponomariov, Gelfand, Bacrot and Akopian. Idon’t think that this squad is really inferior to that in San Luis. However it is impossible to embrace theboundless. Suppose these two “teams” put together play two big rounds. Apart from participants’fatigue there will be another problem – other discontented GMs, such as Grischuk, Radjabov,Kamsky, Lautier, Van Wely, etc. It is a real vicious circle.Personally, I support FIDE decision to resolve the crisis in a good old tried-and-true way. Let’s recallthe match-tournament Hague-Moscow (1948) organized after Alekhine demise. Only five GM tookpart in the event, whereas several strong players such as Fine, Najdorf, Boleslavsky, Bronstein, wereleft overboard. Despite this drawback nobody questioned the legitimacy of Botvinnik’s title. MikhailMoiseevich convincingly proved that he was not an accidental newcomer on chess Olympus but agreat champion.Two out of second eight that I mentioned, Kasparov and Kramnik simply refused to fight for the title;others did not score enough two-year aggregative rating. One way or another, the number of participants had to be limited. It is hardly possible to figure out any criteria which is better than ratingin this situation.First round lived up to chess fans’ expectations. The participants started right off the bat! It turnedout though that some entrants were not prepared to hit the ground running. Probably high tension andenormous pressure took their tall. After all, you don’t play in the world championship every day! Thefirst round games were ridden with, let’s put it this way, surprising moves. That is a well-knownphenomenon when players react on the pressure with jerky, aggressive moves.There is a well-known expression “1.e2-e4! and White wins”. All the first round games were openedwith the king pawn move. However, only Black won! Actually, Black could have achieved even more.Let’s check out the games.Right after the opening moves Black crossed the line of tolerated risk, but White failed to punish hisopponent. One may say that Topalov had a champion’s luck!Sicilian Defense B90Peter LEKO (HUN) – Veselin TOPALOV (BUL)
 
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.f3 e6.
The Bulgarian keeps gathering theharvest on this field well-fertilized with a diligent home preparation.
7.Be3 b5.
 
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