Indian Pride Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel, winner of the Candidates tournament will challenge each other in World chess championship 2012.


The match will take place on 10–31 May 2012 in the Engineering Building of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia and will determine the World Chess Champion. The match will be held under the auspices of FIDE, the World Chess Federation. The prize fund is 2.55 million US Dollars.


The defending champion is Anand, having held the title since 2007. He last defended his title by winning the World Chess Championship 2010 against Veselin Topalov. The challenger is Gelfand, who won the tournament of eight-player Candidate Matches.


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