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BONN, Germany (AP) - Reigning champion Viswanathan Anand of India will play challenger Vladimir Kramnik of Russia in a chess world championship. The match will consist of twelve games, played under classical time controls,= in the period from October 11 to October 28, 2008. If there is a tie at the = end of these games a tiebreak will be played on October 30, 2008. The prize f= und, which will be split equally between the players, is 1.5 million Euro (approximately 2.1 million US Dollars) including taxes and FIDE licensee fees.

Viswanathan Anand<= /span> (37) and Vladimir Kramnik (32) are the two outstanding personalities in chess today. The world championship match between them is keenly anticipated by chess fans all over the world. It is part of a 120-year tradition of chess history, which includes matches lik= e Capablanca-Alekhine, Fischer-S= passky, Kasparov-Karpov and Kram= nik-Topalov.

The reigning and undisputed World Champion Anand won his title= in September 2007 at the World Championship tournament in Mexico City. Kra= mnik, who was undefeated in his three world championship matches, became second= in this double round robin event.

The World Chess Championship 2008 takes place under the patronage of the German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück, who is himself= an enthusiastic and ambitious chess player.

The main sponsor of= the World Championship is Evonik Industries. This industrial enterprise is located in Essen, Germany= , and was the exclusive sponsor of the 2006 World Chess Challenge between Vladi= mir Kramnik and the chess program Deep Fritz.

The World Chess Cha= mpionship 2008 in Bonn will be organized with the full cooperation of the World Chess Federation FIDE and it’s President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. FIDE has its main office in Athens, Greece, and is the head of 161 national chess federations with 40 million active chess players, making it one of the world’s largest sporting organizations.

The organizer of the World Championship 2008 is Universal Event Promotion (UEP), which is loca= ted in Dortmund (Germany) and has received a= ll rights for the event from FIDE. UEP staged the World Chess Challenge betw= een Vladimir Kramnik and the chess program Deep F= ritz in 2006, an event that drew worldwide media attention and was very succes= s

 

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