Today (April 21, 2010) the official opening of the most anticipated chess event of the year took place in Sofia, Bulgaria - the match for the world title between champion Viswanathan Anand and the challenger ex-champion Veselin Topalov. The clash of the titans will start on the board one day later than originally planned. The postponenement was due to the long trip of Vishy Anand to Sofia caused by
the volcano in Iceland. So the first game is scheduled for Saturday, April 24 2010 12:00 GMT (15:00 EEST).
The
ChessBomb team is working hard to bring you
the best online coverage of this great and long expected match. The realtime analysis will be provided by the awesome
Stockfish engine, which we additionally tweaked and upgraded to the latest 1.7.1 version (it has already dethroned Rybka 3 from the first place on some lists, for example
CCRL FRC). As you may recall, we recently
replaced Rybka 2.2 with Stockfish.
Stay tuned for some additional great announcements from us before the start of the games...
