Results
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FIDE World Chess Championship 2005 Rating Performance 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Total 1 Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) 2788 (+102) - ½ ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ 10 2 Viswanathan Anand (India) 2788 (+19) ½ ½ - ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ 1 0 1 1 ½ 1 1 8½ 3 Peter Svidler (Russia) 2738 (+76) 0 ½ ½ ½ - 1 1 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 8½ 4 Alexander Morozevich (Russia) 2707 (+36) 0 ½ 1 ½ 0 0 - ½ 1 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 7 5 Peter Leko (Hungary) 2763 (-52) 0 ½ ½ 0 0 ½ ½ 0 - ½ 1 1 ½ 1 ½ 6½ 6 Rustam Kasimdzhanov (Uzbekistan) 2670 (+2) 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 0 - ½ ½ 0 1 5½ 7 Michael Adams (England) 2719 (-53) 0 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ - ½ ½ 5½ 8 Judit Polgár (Hungary) 2735 (-125) 0 ½ 0 0 0 ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 0 ½ ½ - 4½
The first tie-break was head-to-head result; the second tie-break was total number of wins.
Topalov scored an extraordinary 6½/7 in the first cycle, one of the greatest streaks in the history of championship-level chess. He then drew every one of his games in the second cycle, clinching the victory with one round to spare. This made Topalov the FIDE World Chess Champion.
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