WCh G9 drawn after heroic fight

Schedule
April 24 – 17.00 EEST (16:00 CET) - Game 1 April 25 – 15:00 EEST (14:00 CET) - Game 2 April 26 – Rest Day April 27 – 15:00 EEST (14:00 CET) - Game 3 April 28 – 15:00 EEST (14:00 CET) - Game 4 April 29 – Rest Day April 30 – 15:00 EEST (14:00 CET) - Game 5 May 1 – 15:00 EEST (14:00 CET) - Game 6 May 2 – Rest Day May 3 – 15:00 EEST (14:00 CET) - Game 7 | May 4 – 15.00 EEST (12.00 UTC) - Game 8 May 5 – Rest Day May 6 – 15:00 EEST (14:00 CET) - Game 9 May 7 – 15:00 EEST (14:00 CET) - Game 10 May 8 – Rest Day May 9 – 15:00 EEST (14:00 CET) - Game 11 May 10 – Rest Day May 11 – 15:00 EEST (14:00 CET) - Game 12 May 12 – Rest Day May 13 – Tie breaks |
Score
Anand, V |
2787
| 0
| 1
| ½
| 1
| ½
| ½
| ½
| 0
| ½
| 4½ |
|||
Topalov,V |
2805
| 1
| 0
| ½
| 0
| ½
| ½
| ½
| 1
| ½
| 4½
|
Videos
If you can't see all videos in the player above: this is a cache problem of the browser. We've contacted blip.tv about the problem. Please remove your cache files and try again. Here's the game 9 video separately:Game 9
Today's game was one of the most thrilling top GM games I have witnessed on location, since I started visiting chess events for this website. What a heroic fight was the 9th match game, and what a titanic battle is this World Championship match. There was a crew from BBC World radio interviewing everyone in the press room today for a documentary on chess and technology, and although the three of them weren't really chess players, they were clearly captivated about the happenings as well, and one of them kept on asking me what evalution the engine gave.

Today Topalov's seconds paid a visit to the venue. In the press room we chatted about the early middlegame position with rooks vs queen, and about the bishop ending of game 8. Yours truly with GMs Ivan Cheparinov, Erwin l'Ami, Jan Smeets and Ian Rogers
During game 9 Stefan Löffler had a brief interview with Vladimir Kramnik about the match for Die Zeit. Here's one quote:
Zeit: At this World Championship Anand copied particularly your openings. With White, he has played four times the Catalan. A surprise for you?Kramnik: It is a logical choice. Topalov hasn't had good result against Catalan so far. At least statistically, this opening is his weak point. It's like in tennis. If the opponent is weak at the net, one tries to lure him there. This strategy was actually difficult to predict, but for Anand it worked. With the Catalan he got his two victories.
Links (we keep updating this!)
- Official website
- Games in PGN via TWIC
- Rules & regulations (PDF)
- The Week in Chess with analysis by IM Malcolm Pein and reports by Mark Crowther
- Anish Giri annotating for Chessbase
- Europe-Echecs, also reporting from Sofia
- GM Ian Rogers blogging for the USCF
- Rogers' articles for Crikey (all together)
- GM Kevin Spragget blogging
- GM Susan Polgar with live commentary
- Chessdom (also live commentary)
- Crestbook (GM Sergey Shipov, live commentary in Russian)
- GM Dejan Bojkov analysing the games
- Die Zeit's coverage
- Kramnik interview in Die Zeit
- Schwatt und Weiss (Georgios Souleidis blogging for Der Westen)
- Entwicklungsvorsprung (Georgios Souleidis' blog)
- Schach Welt (live audio commentary & chat with GM Jörg Hickl and IM Ilja Schneider)