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The following players will fight for the Linares 2009 Chess title. An elite field participates in this edition. Topalov had to withdraw due to his match against Kamsky. Viswanathan Anand Magnus Carlsen Vassily Ivanchuk Levon Aronian Teimour Radjabov Wang Yue Alexander Grischuk Lenier Dominguez

Anand again has the white pieces against Kramnik in the 7th round of the lopsided World Chess Championship. Is it all over? Even a draw as the match progresses towards its end, is bad for Kramnik. Yet, Kramnik is not even able to draw comfortably, forget winning! Nigel Short called the consecutive whites "another of FIDE's quirks" on one of the Chess servers. Some facts before this game: -- Kramnik has never beaten Anand with black -- Kramnik lost the match against Shirov in 1998 with -3, but never lost two games in a row. -- Kramnik has come back in matches, but never from such a huge deficit