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Veselin Topalov
and
Vladimir Kramnik
played a re-unification
match for the title of
all-round World Chess Champion
in Elista
September 23d - October 12th. They played 12 games under classical time
control (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 increment of 30 seconds
per move starting from move 61). Possible tiebreak: 4 games of rapid chess
(25min+10sec), then 2 blitz games (5min+10sec), then sudden death (6min/5min)
with white to win.
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