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The 2020 World Chess Championship match was postponed until 2021. It has now been announced for November 24-December 16, 2021, and will be held alongside the World Expo in Dubai, UAE.

The championship will be played between reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen and a challenger, coming from the 2020 Candidates Tournament. Unfortunately, the second half of the Candidates Tournament was postponed on March 26, 2020, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's travel restrictions. FIDE currently plans to complete the Candidates Tournament in the second half of April 2021.
In this article, you will find all of the information that is known so far.

How To Watch On Chess.com

Chess.com acquired the rights and is an official broadcast partner. A special page will be created on Chess.com where you'll be able to follow the live moves with computer analysis, live chat, and video commentary by (grand)masters and special guests.

Daily news recaps will be posted on the Chess.com news pages with an in-depth grandmaster analysis of the games. Further recap videos will be published on YouTube with more GM analysis.

On Facebook and Twitter, we will provide the latest news, photos, rumors, and more from the world championship.

Players

One player is known already. Magnus Carlsen (Norway) is the reigning world champion, who will be defending his title. He is 29 years old and has held the title since 2013 when he defeated then world champion GM Viswanathan Anand of India.

Carlsen is known as one of the biggest chess talents that ever lived. He became a grandmaster at the age of 13 years, 4 months, and 27 days. He has won numerous tournaments and has been the world number one player continuously since 2011.

Carlsen's challenger will be the winner of the 2020 Candidates Tournament, originally scheduled for March 11-April 5, 2020 in Yekaterinburg, Russia. As mentioned, the Candidates Tournament was postponed after seven rounds. At the halfway point, GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi are leading the event with 4.5/7. Here are the current standings:

(Tiebreaks: 1. Mutual score, 2. Number of wins, 3. Sonneborn-Berger.)

The regulations state that if the world champion or the challenger withdraws from the 2020 title match, he will be replaced by the runner-up of the Candidates' tournament. If any further replacement is needed, the average rating from the 12 FIDE standard (classical) rating lists from August 2019 to July 2020 is used, and the player with the highest average rating qualifies.

Dates And Location

The match will be held November 24-December 16, 2021 alongside the Dubai World Expo. It was supposed to start on December 20, 2020, in Dubai, UAE but got postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The match was originally planned to be held alongside the Dubai Expo, which was postponed.

Prize Fund

The prize fund will be $2 million. The winner will earn 60 percent of the prize fund, and 40 percent will go to the runner-up. If the match ends in a tie after 14 games and a tiebreak will decide matters, the winner receives 55 percent and the runner-up 45 percent.

Before the start of the match, each player receives two hundred thousand euros as an upfront payment of his eventual prize money. If the match is played in the country of one of the players, then the foreign player receives one hundred thousand euros of the prize fund and the remaining prize money is shared as stated above.

Live Games

Chess.com will relay the games live on a special landing (to be announced) and provide a live video broadcast at Chess.com/TV, Twitch.tv/chess and Youtube.com/Chess where a team of (grand)masters will bring you the latest insights, instructive explanation of the moves, interviews, behind the scenes and more.

After each game, you will find detailed news reports by our authors @MikeKlein, @PeterDoggers and our photographer Maria Emelianova (@misslovalova).

Regulations

The official regulations can be found in PDF here. These are most important things to know:

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• The match will be played over 14 standard games. When someone reaches 7.5 points, he wins.
• At the opening ceremony, a drawing of colors determines who will start with the white pieces.
• The time control is 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 60 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 61.
• If the scores are level after the regular 14 games, four tie-break games will be played. These are rapid games with 25 minutes for each player with an increment of 10 seconds after each move.
• If it's still equal, two blitz games will be played (5 minutes plus 3 seconds increment). If it's still equal, a second pair of two blitz games will be played. If there is still no winner after five such matches, one sudden-death game will be played. The player who wins the drawing of lots may choose the color. The player with the white pieces shall receive 5 minutes, the player with the black pieces shall receive 4 minutes whereupon, after the 60th move, both players shall receive an increment of 3 seconds starting from move 61. In case of a draw the player with the black pieces is declared the winner.
• The players cannot draw a game by agreement before Black's 30th move. A claim for a
  draw before Black's 30th move is permitted only through one of the arbiters in
  the cases of a threefold repetition.

History Of WCC

The world championship of chess has a long tradition. The first official match was held in 1886 between Johannes Zukertort and Wilhelm Steinitz. The latter won and became the first official world chess champion in history. Emanuel Lasker (Germany), Jose Raul Capablanca (Cuba), Alexander Alekhine (Russia/France) and GM Max Euwe (Netherlands) subsequently took the titles by beating the reigning champions in a match.

Alekhine won back the title but due to his death in 1946, it became vacant. FIDE organized a tournament in 1948 which was won by GM Mikhail Botvinnik (Soviet Union), who then lost his title but successfully won it back in matches against compatriots GM Vasily Smyslov and GM Mikhail Tal. After losing to GM Tigran Petrosian, Botvinnik lost the right for an automatic return match and stopped participating in the world championship cycle.

GM Boris Spassky defeated Petrosian, but with him the Soviet hegemony ended as GM Bobby Fischer (USA) famously won the Match of the Century in 1972 in Reykjavik.

Because FIDE didn't accept all of Fischer's demands for a match with GM Anatoly Karpov in 1975, Fischer refused to play and forfeited his title. Karpov was declared world champion. The Russian GM remained world champion for 10 years, when he lost his second match to GM Garry Kasparov in 1985 after the first had been terminated a year earlier by FIDE when there was still no decision after 48(!) games.

Kasparov won three more matches with Karpov but then stepped away from FIDE and played three matches under the newly founded Professional Chess Association (PCA). He defeated GM Nigel Short and GM Viswanathan Anand but lost to GM Vladimir Kramnik in 2000, who thus is considered to be the 14th classical world champion.

Karpov, GM Alexander Khalifman, Anand, GM Ruslan Ponomariov, GM Rustam Kasimdzhanov and GM Veselin Topalov won world titles in official FIDE events in the 1990s and 2000s, but these titles have been disputed because e.g. Kasparov and Kramnik did not participate, and they didn't follow the tradition of one-to-one matches.

Meanwhile, Kramnik defended his title in 2004 against GM Peter Leko and then won a 'reunification match' against Topalov in 2006. Anand took over the title from Kramnik in a tournament in 2007 in Mexico, and subsequently defended it successfully in matches against Kramnik in 2008, Topalov in 2010 and GM Boris Gelfand in 2012.

GM Magnus Carlsen defeated Anand in 2013 in Chennai and successfully defended his title against the same opponent in 2014, against GM Sergey Karjakin in 2016 and against Fabiano Caruana in 2018.

2020 Speed Chess Championship Infographics‎

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As per Wikipedia, Anish Giri is a Russian born Dutch Grandmaster. But by his name, he sounds curiously Indian. Also, he holds a connection to India keeping in mind his work with Vidit Gujrathi in recent times and he had also been a second to Viswanathan Anand during his World Championship match against Veselin Topalov in Sofia, Bulgaria. After the Tata Steel came to a close, Anish, in a brief interview with Aditya Pai, spoke about his Indian roots, his work with Anand and Vidit, the current boom in Indian chess and his prospects of playing in India.

Anish Giri: 'Viswanathan Anand's depth of preparation for world championship matches inspired me'

**This interview was originally published on Firstpost

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Anish Kumar Giri – Indian ears might automatically consider the bearer of this name to hail from their home country. But this top chess star, ranked fifth in the world currently, was born in St. Petersburg and lives in the Netherlands. But even besides his name, there are some things that connect him to India. Vidit Gujrathi, one of India’s top talents, has been the Dutchman’s second for quite a while now. Anish has also himself been a second to the Indian chess legend, Viswanathan Anand, during Anand’s World Championship match against Veselin Topalov in 2006.

Firstpost was able to catch up with Anish in the press room of the De Moriaan Community Centre in Wijk aan Zee after the Tata Steel Masters. In the interview, Anish talks about his connection to India, his work with Vidit and Anand, the current boom in Indian chess and his prospects of playing in the country.

AP: You were born in St. Petersburg, you play for the Netherlands. Why do you have an Indian name?

AG: My father is from Nepal and his mother, in turn, is Indian. That’s where my first and last name come from. I think my parents thought that since my last name was already Giri, it would be odd to give me some Russian name like, let’s say, Mikhail (laughs).

AP: Another thing that links you to India is you working with Vidit Gujrathi. What inspired you to choose him as one of your seconds.

AG: I wouldn’t generally stereotype people by their country, but in this case, I think it’s a positive so it’s fine. I think Indian players are hardworking and I find that an important quality. Especially when I want to work with someone, I would want that person to be able to work hard and with enthusiasm. I have worked with various players from different countries and Vidit is indeed one of them.

AP: So, can you tell about your experience working with him?

AG: Well, he is a good player and I can, sort of, understand the way he thinks. A lot of his ideas appeal to me as well. I think we did a lot of good things, found some important ideas and I am also glad that it worked out for him. I mean due to or despite working with me, he still managed to become a good player and improved a lot (laughs). When we started working, he was rated about 2650. He had been there already for a while and seemed not to be making much progress but after that he managed to take off and now he has entered the 2700 club.

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AP: Why did your association with him come to an end?

AG: It hasn’t come to an end. Just yesterday, we exchanged some thoughts.

AP: Some years ago, you had also helped Anand in his match against Topalov. Could you tell more about that?

AG: Yes, that was a very, very long time ago. I’m very fortunate that Vishy invited me. I was very young at the time. I thought there was very little I could bring in. Perhaps, also, it is refreshing when you have a young player coming in. But I remember when we were playing the games or comparing notes, there wasn’t a single time when my analysis was better. I was just shocked by the depth of his preparation and the speed of his play.

I remember I had written down two games that I had won. We had played more than thirty games or so. But I won only two and I wrote them down (laughs).

AP: What did you learn from the experience? Was there any specific learning?

AG: Well obviously, I learnt a lot. It was very inspiring to get to know Vishy and also to see the depth of preparation done for world championship matches. I mean, by now, I already know more or less what it is about but back then, I was actually shocked. I thought that I was also working but when I saw Vishy’s preparation, I realized that what I was doing was just child’s play.

AP: India is speculated to become a chess super-power in the not so distant future. Could you tell what your opinion is on this?

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AG: Yes, it’s great. Some of the Indian players are my friends. I am very happy for them. You see that there is a boom, largely thanks to Vishy Anand who has been there for a while. But also, I guess, because there is some proper support for the players. For example, most of my friends are supported by some companies and the government as well. And then, the players are given awards, they are motivated. Parents also see that there is a future in chess, so they let their kids take some time off school sometimes. It’s very important to accommodate talent and India does that very well.

And then, players are naturally hardworking as well. Also, most of the kids I know are very modest. They do not get swayed by success. They keep working hard, maintaining their motivation and humility. That’s very good to see.

AP: What will you say about the role ChessBase India has played and can play in the future in terms of promoting the game?

AG: Well, I cannot judge that. I know Sagar, personally, very well. He’s a very nice man, extremely hardworking as well. He puts in more hours than anyone I have seen. I do see the rising players but I don’t know what ChessBase India’s input in this has been.

But obviously, it is doing a good job. I recently saw an article that they also want to support players with arranging accommodation, travel and visas. That sounds very convenient. I am very happy and, I think, it’s largely due to Sagar’s enthusiasm. And it’s great to see that there is fertile soil in India and he is planting the seeds.

AP: Have you ever played in India?

AG: Actually, I haven’t. There were never any opportunities. Only last year, there was a rapid tournament (Tata Steel India) but, unfortunately, I was playing in China in the same period. Perhaps, next year, I might be a part of the Grand Chess Tour and play there.

It’s good to see that there are good tournaments in India. It all comes together – the players and the tournaments. It’s great to see the development.

AP: But have you had a chance to lose to some talented Indians in other countries?

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AG: Strangely enough, I can’t recall games that I lost to Indian players. I have seen a lot of Indian kids, for example, in the Isle of Man tournament. I have also seen them play in some small Dutch tournaments. I’ve seen Praggnanandhaa, Nihal Sarin, Gukesh and all of these guys. And before, I have met guys like Lalith Babu – I remember having played him – Adhiban, etc. I have seen many of them. I haven’t played many of them but I have seen their games and I am following their careers.

AP: Are you looking forward to losing to any one of them? (laughs)

AG: No, I am not. But actually, my wife lost quite a lot of games at some point when she played in India, at the Chennai Open, during the 2013 World Championship (laughs). She lost a lot of games to Indian kids. I hope I have outgrown that already. I hope they still need to grow up before they beat me.

Pdf to excel converter for mac free download. AP: Will we see you play in India anytime in the near future?

AG: Yeah, as I said, there is a good chance of that happening next year because I might be a part of the Grand Chess Tour. It depends on how the tournaments are located and if I take part. But, hopefully, I feel I am going to play one day. And I hope more tournaments are organized as well – perhaps, a classical tournament.

AP: Playing chess aside, have you been to India, perhaps, just as a tourist?

AG: I have been to Nepal, obviously, because my father is from Nepal. The culture is similar, in my opinion. I haven’t actually been to India. I have come very close, though. My father’s town, Biratnagar is very near to India. I remember we had taken a bus and already after a few kilometres, we were already at the border.

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