New Chess Master

Viswanathan Anand has been topped ranked player since April in the ELO ratings, he become the undisputed World Chess Champion on September 29, 2007 after winning the 2007 World Chess Championship Tournament held in Mexico City. Anand scored 9 from 14 points, without losing a single game and finished a full point ahead next player.

He previously won the title in 2000, but at that time there were 2 governing bodies in Chess, with Gary Kasparov also claiming the word title. From 1993 to 2006, there was the “classical” world title determined by traditional matches, but not sanctioned by FIDE. The FIDE world title has determined by several methods, most recently by round-robin tournament. In a unification match, the 2006 World Championship, classical champion Vladimir Kramnik defeated FIDE champion Veselin Topalov. In June 2007, Kramnik stated that he would recognize the winner of the 2007 championship as the new World Chess Champion - he then took the world champion position in this tournament.

Viswanathan Anand, image from wikipedia.

You can find all the games from the tournament here: Chess base 2007 FIDE World Championship.