Gary Gifford wrote on Wed, Oct 3, 2007 09:56 AM UTC:
The Indian Chess Grand Master Vishwanathan Anand is the new world Chess
Champion. He drew with Peter Leko, in the 14th [last] round of the World
Chess Championship held in Mexico City. That gave him 9 points. I heard
that Anand was very close to losing Round 13, and was even expected to lose
- but have not verified that yet. A tie-break round was being prepared,
but not needed.
Israeli chess grandmaster Boris Gelfand now shares the No. 2 spot with
outgoing world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik of Russia. Both with 8
points.
Gelfand had three wins, 10 draws and one loss. Anand had four wins
and 10 draws and was the only undefeated player. Each player earned one
point per win and half a point per draw. The match was 14 rounds.
Gelfand's only loss was unexpected to one of the weaker players in the
field... had Gelfand won that game we would have seen a tie-break round
between him and Anad.