Classical World Chess Championship 1995
The World Chess Championship 1995 was a battle between Garry Kasparov and Viswanathan Anand for the world chess title. The of the Professional Chess Association ( PCA) aligned World Championship was held from 11 September to 10 October 1995 at the 107th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
Garry Kasparov defended by 18 of the 20 scheduled matches his world title.
Qualification
In the tradition of past World Championships, the 1994 PCA hosted a series of candidates competitions to determine the challenger. Of the eight participants, seven were identified in 1993 in a qualifying tournament Swiss system in Groningen. The eighth place went to Nigel Short, the defeated the World Chess Championship 1993. The quarter-finals went over a maximum of 8 matches, the semi-finals on 10 and the final 12 games. In the case of a tie, decided more rapid games.
Organization
The race was scheduled for a maximum of 20 games. The players were two hours for 40 moves, another hour for 20 moves and half an hour more for the rest of the game to change your mind available, the unused solution after cooling-off period did not fall during the game. There was no hanging parts or adjournments.
Chief Arbiter Carol Jarecki was.
As a prize fund of 1.5 million U.S. dollars have been agreed, of which one million were awarded to the winner and half a million to the loser. Ten percent of them benefited from the PCA. Event of a tie, the fund should be divided, but Kasparov retain the title.
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Expiration
Anand had prepared with Artur Yusupov, Elizbar Ubilava, Jonathan Speelman and Patrick Wolff. Kasparov sat on Yuri Dochojan Yevgeny Pigussow and Vladimir Kramnik as a helper.
At the start of the World Chess Championship opened Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for Anand with 1.c4, the train was revised by Anand on 1.e4.
After eight drawn games Anand won the ninth game. In the tenth game Anand ran into a prepared opening variant and lost. The eleventh game Kasparov won by a combination with discovered check also. In the twelfth game of Kasparov came also in advantage, but Anand was like a Zwischenzug from. The thirteenth game again went to Kasparov. In the fourteenth game for the first time the Scandinavian defense was used in a World Cup. After a rejected Kasparov's knight sacrifice and mutual time trouble Kasparov also won this match, which was later considered by Anand as a critical moment. It was followed by four mostly short drawn games until Kasparov uncatchable was in the lead.
Follow
Garry Kasparov lost his world championship title in 2000 to Vladimir Kramnik. He retired on 10 March 2005, still considered one of the world's best players argued from professional chess and became a Russian politician. One year after the reunification of the chess world championship title Anand was 2007 world champion and defended the title in 2008 against Vladimir Kramnik, Vesselin Topalov, 2010 against and 2012 against Boris Gelfand.
On the sixth anniversary of the start of the World Chess Championship 1995, but without reference to her, the venue was destroyed in the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001.