I want to know who is the World Chess Champion (WCC) 2010, but have to wait for result of the match that is scheduled to take place in Sofia, Bulgaria from April 23 to May 12, 2010. In the WCC 2010, the current world champion, Viswanathan Anand (India), will be challenged for the World Chess Championship title by Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria), with a prize fund of 2 million euros.
According to FIDE Chess Profile on March 2010, Viswanathan Anand is 4th world rank, got FIDE title Grand Master in 1985, rating: 2787, B-Year 1969. He is current world champion, who won the World Chess Championship 2007 and successfully defended his title against Vladimir Kramnik in the World Chess Championship 2008.
Veselin Topalov got FIDE title Grand Master in 1992 and International Master (IM) in 1989, rating: 2805, B-Year 1975, and 2nd world rank.
I then search (goggling) their profile and road to be a World Champion and Challenger. I came to World Chess Championship 2006 and found "Bathroom controversy". The WCC 2006 was a chess match between Classical WCC Vladimir Kramnik, and FIDE WCC Veselin Topalov. The match, which was won by Kramnik, determined, for the first time in 13 years, the undisputed WCC. The match was played between September 23 and October 13, 2006, in Elista, Kalmykia, Russia
Here the piece parts that make me interested in writing this post:
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Allegations and forfeit
On September 28, 2006, the rest day between games 4 and 5, Topalov's manager Silvio Danailov complained to the match organizers and the press about Kramnik's repeated visits to the bathroom. He noted that the bathrooms are the only place not under audio or video surveillance, and called the frequency of the breaks "strange, if not suspicious". Danailov suggested that Topalov would abandon the match if the concerns were not addressed.
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On October 2 2006, more than 30 GMs, WGMs, and IMs expressed open support for Kramnik's position – including former World Champions Anatoly Karpov and Boris Spassky, whose opponent also famously disputed the match conditions.
On Later allegations section:
"On October 4, Topalov's manager, Silvio Danailov, issued a press release that identified what it labeled "coincidence statistics" showing the percentage of times that Kramnik played a move that would be recommended by Chessbase's Fritz 9 chessplaying software in that position (about 78% on average)."
GM Susan Polgar - who does not believe Kramnik is using computer assistance - characterized this as "another black eye for Danailov and chess. Even if he believes that it is true, he should complain to the committee and not through a press release. This is unprofessional and unacceptable."
At the press conference following Game 7, Kramnik commented on the second game where the Fritz analysis had shown a match with 87% of Kramnik's moves. Kramnik said "A proper analysis must take into consideration that in the second game we both blundered a mate in three! First of all, this 87% is total nonsense – everything depends on the time allotted to the engine for analyzing a given position. Secondly, Topalov’s percentages in San Luis, for example, were even higher."
In an interview with the Spanish daily ABC published on 14 December 2006, Topalov alleged that Kramnik had cheated with computer help during the match, that network cables had been found in the bathroom ceiling, that threats were issued, and that he felt physically unsafe during the match.
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I don' t know what happened, but I remember while playing online chess in www.chess.com I have been seeing that the staffs have detect cheating and close cheaters account. Sure, I am not use chess program of any kind of computer help here.
I have read IBM Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparow. In 1996 Garry won 4-2, and for rematch in 1997 Deep Blue won 3,5 - 2,5.
How great the human brain .... but sometimes we feel tired, fatigue, exhausted, and the like.
Here is list of chess software.
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