The World Chess Championship between Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik will be held from October 14 to November 2, 2008 in Bonn, Germany . The contestants earned their place after the September 2007 World Championship tournament in Mexico City resulted in Anand winning first place and Kramnik placing second.

The match will be played over 12 games, the winner of the match being the player to first score 6.5 points or more. The games will be played with a classical time control of 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, 60 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, plus an additional 30 seconds per move starting from move 61. Tie-break games, if needed, will be played on November 2, 2008.

For more information, to follow the games live, biographies, interviews and much more, visit the official website of the World Chess Championship 2008. 

Comments from Gary Kasparov on the match
"It was a very well-played match by Vishy. Except for the loss of concentration in the tenth game he played consistently and managed to enforce his style. His choice to open with 1.d4 was excellent. He reached playable positions with life in them, so he could make Kramnik work at the board. Anand outprepared Kramnik completely. In this way it reminded me of my match with Kramnik in London 2000. Like I was then, Kramnik may have been very well prepared for this match, but we never saw it. I didn't expect the Berlin and ended up fighting on Kramnik's preferred terrain.

[In this match] Kramnik did not expect tough, sharp challenges with white, and this was the key for Anand. He kicked some sand in Kramnik's face and hit Kramnik's weakness: his conservative approach to the game itself. Suddenly Kramnik had to fight in these sharp positions and he wasn't able to do it. This result ends the illusion that Kramnik is a great match player. London was a unique occurrence and I still stand with Leonid Yudasin as the only players Kramnik has ever beaten in a match! Kramnik now has some work to do. His overly-defensive play seems to represent a general decline in strength.