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The World Chess Championship 2013 was a match between reigning world champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Magnus Carlsen, to determine the World Chess Champion.It was held from 7 to 25 November 2013 in Chennai, India, under the auspices of FIDE (the World Chess Federation).
The World Chess Championship 2014 was a match between the world champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Viswanathan Anand, to determine the World Chess Champion.It was held from 7 to 25 November 2014, under the auspices of the World Chess Federation in Sochi, Russia.
Viswanathan Anand won the Candidates Tournament by remaining undefeated and scoring victories over Levon Aronian (in round 1), Shakriyar Mamedyarov (in Round 3), and Veselin Topalov (in Round 9). This guaranteed his spot as challenger to Magnus Carlsen in the Sochi World Chess Championship match.
Gukesh acknowledged that although he had become world champion, he is not the best player in the world, which is still Magnus Carlsen; [i] however, this only motivates him to try to catch Carlsen. For his part, Carlsen acknowledged that Gukesh has time and room to improve, and might even be the one to knock him off the top spot. [ 94 ]
Magnus Carlsen, 2858 (peak years 2013–2021) Garry Kasparov, 2821 (peak years 1993–2001) Bobby Fischer, 2802 (peak years 1970–1972) Ian Nepomniachtchi, 2786 (peak years 2020–2022) Vladimir Kramnik, 2785 (peak years 2000–2007) Viswanathan Anand, 2780 (peak years 2007–2014) Veselin Topalov, 2773 (peak years 2005–2009)
chess24.com was an Internet chess server in English and ten other languages, established in 2014 [1] by German grandmaster Jan Gustafsson and Enrique Guzman. [2] [3] Chess24 also provided live coverage of major international chess tournaments, and hosted their own online tournaments, including the Magnus Carlsen Invitational.
He is the sixth player to cross the 2800 rating mark, after Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, Veselin Topalov, and Magnus Carlsen. In March 2014 he reached a personal rating record of 2830, which is the fourth-highest rating ever attained, behind only Carlsen, Kasparov, and Caruana. [100]
The Catalan has had proponents at the highest level in chess, with Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen all employing the opening in their World Chess Championship title games. A number of other grandmasters have successfully played the Catalan, including Fabiano Caruana , Daniil Dubov , Anish Giri and Ding Liren .