The World Chess Championship Mexico-2007 started with a 6-minute delay at 14:06 local hours on Tuesday caused by switch-break lighting failure over Vishwanathan Anand's (India) and Peter Svidler's (Russia) board-two table.
The failure, that affected the eight players and thousands of internet chess fans worldwide, began during the last period on Sunday's games in which the current world champion Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) and his countryman Alexander Grischuk agreed to draw on that same board-two table.
This event's coordinators were unable to fix the switch-breaker although the players rested on Monday. They had it fixed temporarily on Tuesday morning, but it started to fail again 20 minutes before the games were scheduled to start.
The attempts to fix the World Chess Championship Mexico-2007's lighting system failed
On Tuesday after heavy electro-mechanical stairways were used to reach the 10-meter-high lighting system, in a last-minute attempt to fix it.
This world chess event's International World Chess (FIDE) head referee Antonio Bento from Brazil asked the eight world-title contenders if they agreed to play with an awkward lighting system, indirect lighting, and they accepted.
The 5th round games face Anand versus Svidler (Marshall-Attack opening) ; Grischuk versus Alexander Morozevich (Queen's Gambit); Peter Leko versus Kramnik was an Italian opening that already ended drawn; the Boris Gelfand versus Levon Aronian (Irregular Benoni defense).
After the 4th round, Kramnik and Anand continued as leaders with 2.5 points each, followed by Morozevich, Aronian, Grischuk and Gelfand with 2.0 points each, while Svidler and Leko have 1.5 points each.
In this championship each player has two hours each to make their first forty moves and additional one hour four the next 20 moves when it is necessary.
This is the first official World Chess Championship played in Mexico with International Chess Federation (FIDE) rules, and is being played at the Sheraton hotel at Mexico Citys Historic Center.
Source: Xinhua
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