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 gr
Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik
The World Chess Championship 2007 was held in Mexico City, from 12 September 2007 to 30 September 2007 to decide the world champion of the game of chess. It was an eight-player, double round robin tou
World Chess Championship 2008
…incumbent World Chess Champion, Viswanathan Anand, and the previous World Champion, Vladimir Kramnik. Kramnik had been granted a match after losing 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…
Viswanathan Anand, winner of the World Chess Championship 2007.