The World Chess Championships are about to start, and the two contestants actually seem to get along!  This should be the most fun World Championship since Kasparov-Kramnik, and perhaps since... umm..... Well, you get the idea.

The quality of the two players is similar to the quality of Kasparov and Karpov, but as in the 1960s, there are plenty of competitors who think they deserve a shot some time.

Anand is the official world champion but I consider Kramnik the defending title holder based on match play.  I know that both players want to win this one, so it almost doesn't matter.

I really am torn, having been a Kramnik fan for a very long time, but also fully enjoying Anand's style.  They are both gentlemen, and both supreme artists.

I'm going to vote for Kramnik to hold on to his title (and make it official), but I won't mind in the slightest if I'm wrong.  Anand fully deserves to become world champion (in match play) and it would be great to see the first non-European/American to win since Capablanca.  (Perhaps Baku isn't really part of Europe, but Kasparov is certainly ethnically European.)

Here's your chance to weigh in on the match!

The match consists of twelve games, played under classical time controls: 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, 60 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game plus an additional 30 seconds per move starting from move 61.


Here's the 
Schedule
Tuesday October 14   Game 1 
Wednesday   October 15 Game 2 
Thursday October 16 Free day
Friday October 17 Game 3 
Saturday October 18 Game 4 
Sunday October 19 Free day
Monday October 20 Game 5 
Tuesday October 21 Game 6 
Wednesday   October 22 Free day
Thursday October 23 Game 7 
  Friday October 24 Game 8 
Saturday October 25 Free day
Sunday October 26 Game 9 
Monday October 27 Game 10 
Tuesday October 30 Free day
Wednesday   October 29 Game 11 
Thursday October 30 Free day
Friday October 31 Game 12  
Saturday November 1 Free day
Sunday November 2   Tiebreak 


I copied this directly from ChessBase.  I think Tuesday October 30 should read "Tuesday October 28".
So, 12 games at a reasonable time control followed by one day (The 
Day of the Dead), to play any tie breaks.