CHESS: Gelfand To Challenge Anand For World Title

I hadn't been paying much attention to this, but, in a pretty surprising result, 42-year-old Boris Gelfand has won the final FIDE Candidates match against Aleksandr Grischuk to become the official challenger to reigning World Champion (and MadProfessah associate) Vishy Anand next year. Gelfand won the 6-game match by winning the final game after 5 consecutive draws. If the game had been tied the match would have been decided by a series of four blitz (fast time control) matches. Both Grischuk and Gelfand had defeated their opponents, former World Champion Viktor Kramnik and American Gata Kamsky, respectively, in the time-control section of the match in the semifinal rounds, with the 27-year-old Grischuk believed by many to have an edge in fast play if the match had reached that stage.

Here's the final game:





There's some pretty great analysis of the match at chess.com.