Fide World Championship 2005
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I posted his game, since his own post was messed up.
But I see this thread in a totally wrong format, the avatars look giant.
I am just trying to help
thanks for posting these
Interesting
I found in my email an old bulletin from ICC with the results for the WC 2005, I think that it´s interesting to see how they described the players.
It looks like usually nobody expected anything from Svidler, since they think that Svidler´s result was surprising getting 8.5 points / 14. Even when he has been already Russian champion, nobody expected him to win or even to get a good score.
Even last year many people got surprised of Svidler scoring 8 points and finishing 3rd, in spite of him being Russian champion for 6 times at that moment (and now he has is current champion making it the 7th time he won his national championship).
FIDE World Championship
What a tournament!
The FIDE 2005 Championship was one of the more noteworthy of recent years because of the strong fighting spirit of the participants and because it is the most important tournament to be held since the retirement of the #1 player for decades, Garry Kasparov of Russia.
[Topalov at Work]There was a titanic struggle to stake a claim on the crown of world chess -- will the new era be dominated by one player or by a small or large group of competitors? This was the first real battleground, and the commanding victor was Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria, who won by the unusually wide margin of one and a half points.
It could be argued that the margin would have been greater except that Topalov coasted in with all draws in the last half of the tournament after winning six games and drawing one during the first half. In second place was Viswanathan Anand of India, picked by many as the strongest player in the post-Kasparov chess world, tied with former Russian Champion Peter Svidler, who surprised many with his great results in this historic tournament. If not for Topalov's scorching performance, their 8.5 scores would have been high enough for first place at many similar events.
Well back in the pack: the brilliant but erratic Alexander Morozevich of Russia, Peter Leko of Hungary, who recently drew a match with Classical World Champion Vladimir Kramnik, ex-FIDE Champion RustamKasimjanov of Uzbekistan, Michael Adams of England, and Judit Polgar of Hungary.