Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria defeated Gata Kamsky of the United States yesterday in Game 7 of their match to select a challenger for the world chess championship.

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Topalov Wins Challengers Match

Topalov - Anand is the World Chess Championship 2009 final! GM Veselin Topalov has won the  Chess Challengers  match in Sofia against GM Gata Kamsky. After 7 games Topalov achieved 4,5 points, which is enough to advance to the next phase. This gives him the right to challenge Vishwanathan Anand for the  World Chess Championship 2009  title

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Topalov defeats Kamsky to win Match

It’s all over: Veselin Topalov has defeated Gata Kamsky, 4.5-2.5, to win the World Championship Candidates Match.

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Topalov Wins in Seven

White to play and draw. RB: Let’s see what happens if I try to bring up the king: 1 Kh7 Kg1 - I can already see this isn’t going to work - 2 Kg6 Kf2 3 Kg5 (or 3 Nf5) 3 h2 and the pawn will promote. How about 2 Nf3+…

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Bennett and King on chess: Study by Levitt

Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria leads the challengers chess match against Gata Kamsky of the United States after six games. The winner of the best-of-eight game match, which is being played in Sofia, Bulgaria, is slated to play Viswanathan Anand of India, the world chess champion, in a title match.

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Topalov Leads Kamsky With Two to Play

A review of the new 21st Century Edition of Alexander Alekhine’s New York 1924 tournament book.

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Review: New York 1924

After 3 decisive games and 3 draws, GM Veselin Topalov leads the  Chess Challengers  match against GM Gata Kamsky. But still anything can happen in the match with 2 rounds to go

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Topalov-Kamsky 3.5-2.5 after Game 6

After 3 decisive games and 3 draws, GM Veselin Topalov leads the  Chess Challengers  match against GM Gata Kamsky. But still anything can happen in the match with 2 rounds to go. The game of round 6 with commentary courtesy of Chessdom is at the following address.

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Topalov-Kamsky 3.5-2.5 after Game 6

A Bulgarian chess grandmaster appears to have broken the world record for the highest number of chess games played simultaneously, organizers said Monday.

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Bulgarian breaks chess marathon record

Report from ChessVibes   23 February 2009 18:37 PM  CET  | By  Peter Doggers   | Filed under:  Reports  | Tags:  FIDE ,  Match In a slightly worse position that was probably holdable, Gata Kamsky blundered horribly today dropping a healthy pawn. He then decided to try his luck in a queen endgame two pawns down, but the American had to resign at move 51.

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Kamsky blunders and loses fifth game