World Chess Championship 2006
Russia
The World Chess Championship 2006 was the duel between the classic and recognized by the majority of the chess world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik and FIDE world champion Veselin Topalov, who until October 13, 2006 in the building complex Chess City in the Kalmyk capital, Elista was held from September 23 in Russia and the division of the world Championship title ended. As Chief Judge of the Dutch Geurt acted Gijssen. World champion after rapid chess tiebreak was Kramnik.
Background
Since 1993 there had been two rival world titles. World Champion Garry Kasparov had a falling out with the World Chess Federation FIDE, was deposed and founded the rival organization Professional Chess Association, with whom he continued the later so-called "classical" claimed world titles. The FIDE still chose their own "official" world champions, but were not recognized by the majority of the chess public. Over the years there have been several attempts to unify the two titles again, but they were crowned until 2006 with success.
Course
Playing conditions
They played twelve games with classic tournament reflection (120 minutes for the first 40 moves, then 60 minutes for the next 20 moves, then from the 61st train 15 minutes for the rest of the game plus 30 seconds per train ).
Summary
Kramnik lost once due to the so-called " toilet war ", a quarrel about Kramnik's use of the toilets, which was one of the highlights in the non-appearance of Kramnik's fifth game without a fight. This he looked like but from later. When, after twelve games decided a winner, four rapid games were played with 25 minutes and a time bonus of 10 seconds per train. The color distribution Gijssen sparked by the fact that Kramnik in one hand and a black pawn took a white pawn in the other hand and clenched it into a fist. Topalov then pointed to a fist and received in the first rapid game, the color of the farmers therein. Thus had to be involved in the draw any third party. Kramnik chose the rapid games for themselves. In a still undecided state after the four rapid games possibly two blitz games were made at 5 minutes each with a time bonus of 10 seconds per train. It was the first tie-break in a classical chess world championship as well as the only world championship, in which only 1 d4 was played as the first train.
Games
Follow
The two rivals Kramnik and Topalov yielded the facilitation of the participation conditions for the world championships: Kramnik took Topalows place in a round-robin tournament organized as a World Chess Championship 2007, in which he lost the world title to Viswanathan Anand. Against this he played in 2008 a rematch, in which, however, failed him regain the world title.
Topalov was given direct access to the Candidates final in 2009 against Gata Kamsky, the winner of the World Chess Cup 2007 This he won and was now allowed to play in the World Chess Championship 2010 against Anand for the world title, where he worked with 5 ½. Succumbed 6 ½ Anand.