The Format for Future World Championship Events
...can be found here. Here's a summary:
The championships in Mexico will continue as planned this year, with Kramnik's participation. If he wins, he plays Topalov again in 2008(!!); if he loses, he gets to play the winner of the Mexico event that year.
There will also be a World Cup event this year, and the winner will play a match in 2009 with the survivor of the 2008 Kramnik-Topalov/Mexico match.
After that, things are normalized: the winner of the 2009 World Cup plays the champ in 2010; the winner of the 2011 World Cup plays the champ in 2012; the winner of the 2013 World Cup plays the champ in 2014, etc.
Not bad in theory; we'll see how it works in practice. Anyone want to predict the winners? And how funny is it that Topalov has to root for a Kramnik victory in Mexico this year?
The championships in Mexico will continue as planned this year, with Kramnik's participation. If he wins, he plays Topalov again in 2008(!!); if he loses, he gets to play the winner of the Mexico event that year.
There will also be a World Cup event this year, and the winner will play a match in 2009 with the survivor of the 2008 Kramnik-Topalov/Mexico match.
After that, things are normalized: the winner of the 2009 World Cup plays the champ in 2010; the winner of the 2011 World Cup plays the champ in 2012; the winner of the 2013 World Cup plays the champ in 2014, etc.
Not bad in theory; we'll see how it works in practice. Anyone want to predict the winners? And how funny is it that Topalov has to root for a Kramnik victory in Mexico this year?
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on
Saturday March 3, 2007 at 11:23pm
I'm going to go with Aronian as somewhat of a dark horse for Mexico 2007.