This is a really good game played between Veselin Topalov from Bulgaria and Viswanathan Anand from India. This series was played in Sofia, Bulgaria. This series was played between 24th April and 13th May. This was one of the reasons why Topalov took a lot of risk to win the game because he was defeated by Kramnik on the 13th of May 2009. So, he became a bit superstitious. Before this game the points of both the players were equal (5.5). Anand was Black and Topalov was White. This was a typical QP opening wherein White started of with d4. Before this series Anand had played just 67 games against Topalov. Anand won 17 games 13 as White and 4 as Black and drew 37 games (the rest were won by Topalov). This game was the only Black victory of the series. Anand later referred to this game as the toughest of his career. I have picked up a really good video with detailed analysis.
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 O-O 7.e3 Ne4 8.Bxe7 Qxe7 9.Rc1 c6 10.Be2 Nxc3 11.Rxc3 dxc4 12.Bxc4 Nd7 13.O-O b6 14.Bd3 c5 15.Be4 Rb8 16.Qc2 Nf6!? 17.dxc5 Nxe4 18.Qxe4 bxc5 19.Qc2 Bb7 20.Nd2 Rfd8 21.f3 Ba6 22.Rf2 Rd7 23.g3 Rbd8 24.Kg2 Bd3 25.Qc1 Ba6 26.Ra3 Bb7 27.Nb3 Rc7 28.Na5 Ba8 29.Nc4 e5 30.e4 f5! 31.exf5? e4! 32.fxe4?? Qxe4+ 33.Kh3 Rd4 34.Ne3 Qe8! 35.g4 h5 36.Kh4 g5+ 37.fxg6 Qxg6 38.Qf1 Rxg4+ 39.Kh3 Re7 40.Rf8+ Kg7 41.Nf5+ Kh7 42.Rg3 Rxg3+ 43.hxg3 Qg4+ 44.Kh2 Re2+ 45.Kg1 Rg2+ 46.Qxg2 Bxg2 47.Kxg2 Qe2+ 48.Kh3 c4 49.a4 a5 50.Rf6 Kg8 51.Nh6+ Kg7 52.Rb6 Qe4 53.Kh2 Kh7 54.Rd6 Qe5 55.Nf7 Qxb2+ 56.Kh3 Qg7 0–1
Anand won the game thus retaining the World Title.
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