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Defending champion	Challenger
Viswanathan Anand (IND)	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)
Born 11 December 1969 55 years old	Born 30 November 1990 34 years old
Winner of the 2012 World Chess Championship	Winner of the 2013 Candidates Tournament
Rating: 2775 (World No. 8)	Rating: 2870 (World No. 1)

The World Chess Championship 2013 will be a match between the current world champion Viswanathan Anand (winner of the 2012 World Championship) and Magnus Carlsen, to determine the 2013 World Chess Champion. It will be held from 7 to 28 November 2013 in Chennai, India, under the auspices of FIDE (the World Chess Federation). The opening ceremony is on Thursday the 7th of November 2013, while the first game will be on Saturday the 9th.

Candidates Tournament

The challenger was determined in the 2013 Candidates Tournament. For the first time in more than 50 years it was a double round-robin tournament (instead of a knock-out tournament). It took place in the Institution of Engineering and Technology, Savoy Place, London, from 15 March to 1 April 2013. The participants—in order of rules announced by FIDE—were:

Place	Qualifier
The top three finishers in the Chess World Cup 2011	Peter Svidler (Russia)
	Alexander Grischuk (Russia)
	Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine)
Loser of the World Chess Championship 2012	Boris Gelfand (Israel)
The three highest rated players in the world, excluding any of the above (average from July 2011 and January 2012 FIDE rating lists)	Magnus Carlsen (Norway)
	Levon Aronian (Armenia)
	Vladimir Kramnik (Russia)
Candidates Tournament Organizing committee's wild card (FIDE rating in January 2012 at least 2700)	Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan)

The tournament had a prize fund of €510,000. Prize money was shared between players tied on points; tiebreaks were not used to allocate it. The prizes for each place were as follows:

Results

Before the tournament, Carlsen was considered the favourite, with Kramnik and Aronian being deemed his biggest rivals. Ivanchuk was considered an uncertain variable, due to his instability, and the other players were considered less likely to win the event.

During the first half of the tournament, Aronian and Carlsen were considered the main contestants for first place. At the halfway point, Carlsen had a half-point lead over Aronian. In the second half, Kramnik, who had drawn his first seven games, became a serious contender after scoring four wins, while Aronian lost three games, and was thus left behind in the race. Carlsen started the second half by staying ahead of the field, but a loss to Ivanchuk allowed Kramnik to take the lead in round 12 by defeating Aronian. In the penultimate round, Carlsen pulled level with Kramnik by defeating Radjabov, while Kramnik drew against Gelfand.

Before the last round Carlsen and Kramnik were the only players who had a shot at winning the tournament. Kramnik with black against Ivanchuk needed to outperform Carlsen, who had white against Svidler, to win the tournament, since the second tiebreak favoured Carlsen with five wins against Kramnik's four. (The first tiebreak, the head-to-head score between Carlsen and Kramnik, was 1–1.) Ivanchuk obtained an early advantage against Kramnik, while Carlsen got a level position against Svidler. Carlsen got into serious time trouble and did not defend adequately against Svidler's attack, which gave Svidler a winning endgame. Meanwhile, Ivanchuk had outplayed Kramnik, who resigned a few minutes after Carlsen lost. Thus the tournament was won by Carlsen on the second tiebreak.

Final standings of the Candidates Tournament for the World Chess Championship 2013

Rank	Player	Rating March 2013	1		2		3		4		5		6		7		8		Points	Tiebreaks
																				Head-to-head	Wins
1	Magnus Carlsen (NOR)	2872			½	½	0	1	½	½	1	1	1	½	0	½	½	1	8.5	1	5
2	Vladimir Kramnik (RUS)	2810	½	½			1	½	½	1	½	½	½	1	½	0	1	½	8.5	1	4
3	Peter Svidler (RUS)	2747	0	1	½	0			1	½	½	½	½	½	1	½	1	½	8	1.5
4	Levon Aronian (ARM)	2809	½	½	0	½	½	0			1	0	½	½	1	1	1	1	8	0.5
5	Boris Gelfand (ISR)	2740	0	0	½	½	½	½	1	0			½	½	½	½	½	1	6.5	1	2
6	Alexander Grischuk (RUS)	2764	½	0	0	½	½	½	½	½	½	½			1	½	½	½	6.5	1	1
7	Vassily Ivanchuk (UKR)	2757	½	1	1	½	½	0	0	0	½	½	½	0			1	0	6
8	Teimour Radjabov (AZE)	2793	0	½	½	0	½	0	0	0	0	½	½	½	1	0			4

Numbers in parentheses indicate players' scores prior to the round.

World Chess Championship

Previous head-to-head record

Prior to the match, from 2005 to 18 June 2013, Anand and Carlsen played 29 games against each other at classical time controls, out of which Anand won six, Carlsen won three, and twenty were drawn.

Match

The match between Anand and Carlsen will take place in the hotel Hyatt Regency Chennai in Chennai, India, from 9 to 28 November 2013, under the auspices of FIDE. 12 games are scheduled, with one per day at 3 pm local time with rest days after games 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 and 11. Should the match be tied after the 12th game on 26 November tie-break games will be played on the 28th.

The time control for the games will give each player 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, 60 minutes for moves 41–60 and 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting after move 61. Tie-break games, if played, will have increasingly limited time controls.

World Chess Championship 2013

	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Points
Viswanathan Anand (India)	2775	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0
Magnus Carlsen (Norway)	2870	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	0

Schedule

Seconds

Both Anand and Carlsen have a team of "seconds" to aid in their match preparation. Anand's seconds for the match are Surya Ganguly and Radosław Wojtaszek, who has helped him in four previous World Championship matches. It is reported that Anand has a new second, Sandipan Chanda, and it is believed that he has others. Carlsen's seconds include Jon Ludvig Hammer and other seconds who are not known yet.

Timeline of changes

The procedures for choosing the challenger and hosts have undergone a number of changes and controversies. A timeline is shown below:

2011

• 9 August. The All India Chess Federation was given a "first option" of three months following the 2012 World Chess Championship, to make a proposal for the organisation of the 2013 World Chess Championship.
• 19 September. FIDE published the rules, regulations and qualification criteria for the Candidates Tournament of the FIDE World Championship Cycle 2011–13.

2012

• 21 February. FIDE announced negotiations with the Chess Network Company (CNC) and AGON for the World Championship Cycle. Media, web and software rights of the events of the World Championship Cycle were awarded to CNC. AGON was tasked with organising the events and securing the necessary sponsorship funds.
• 3 March. AGON awarded the Candidates Tournament dated 24 October – 12 November 2012 to London.
• 28 March. FIDE and AGON announced 13–31 March 2013 as new dates for the Candidates matches in London.
• 30 May. Anand won the 2012 World Chess Championship, thus qualifying for the 2013 World Chess Championship. His challenger during the 2012 World Chess Championship Boris Gelfand qualified for the 2013 Candidates Tournament.
• 30 August. Latest deadline for the All India Chess Federation to redeem the three-month option to make a proposal for the organisation of the 2013 World Chess Championship.
• 25 October. The Indian Express reported that the All India Chess Federation did not act during the three-month window provided by FIDE to exercise the "first option" to host the final. FIDE Vice President Israel Gelfer commented that "the venue of the match will be decided when AGON, which has the rights and the obligation to organise the cycle, chooses and announces it."

2013

• 8 April. Jayalalithaa Jayaram, the Chief Minister of the state of Tamil Nadu, India, announced that Chennai will host the 2013 World Chess Championship, and said that the event will have a budget of 290,000,000 Indian rupees (around €4,000,000).
• 19 April. FIDE, the All India Chess Federation and the Tamil Nadu State Chess Association signed a Memorandum of Understanding. FIDE Vice President Israel Gelfer said that the venue of the 2013 World Chess Championship would be set within 21 days.
• 3 May. Jøran Aulin-Jansson, the president of the Norwegian Chess Federation, sent an open letter of protest to FIDE, writing "We strongly urge FIDE to facilitate a procedure that enables other interested parties to bid for the ." Just a few hours later Bertrand Delanoë, the mayor of Paris, announced that the capital of France "is ready to host the World Chess Championship", offering a budget of €3,446,280 and a prize fund of €2,650,000 (Chennai offered €2,576,280 and €1,940,000 respectively).
• 5 May. FIDE confirmed Chennai as the venue for 2013 World Chess Championship.
• 6 May. Carlsen made a statement saying, "I'm deeply disappointed and surprised by the FIDE decision to sign a contract for the 2013 match without going through the bidding process outlined in the WC regulations, and for not choosing neutral ground. The bid from Paris clearly showed that it would be possible to have more options to choose from. The lack of transparency, predictability and fairness is unfortunate for chess as a sport and for chess players."
• 7 May. FIDE published a press release according to which on 24 January it and AGON "agreed not to open a bidding procedure, but to grant an option to India, as requested", and claiming that "FIDE tried its hardest to convince India to split the match , but they refused."
• 28 May. The hotel Hyatt Regency Chennai was announced as the venue for the 2013 World Chess Championship.

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