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Closing ceremony

1 October 2007 11:34 AM CET | Last modified: 11:42 | By Peter Doggers  | Filed under: Reports | Tags:

It’s over. Sunday 30 September was the last day of the world championship in Mexico and on the program was the closing ceremony. Viswanathan Anand is now officially world chess champion and besides the laurel wreath he received a typical Mexican cloth and a big bundle of flowers. ChessVibes presents you a compilation of the best moments from the ceremony, including the complete speech that Anand gave in Spanish, with English subtitles.

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21 Responses to “Closing ceremony”

  1. Max on 1 October 2007 12:18 PM

    Thanks so much Peter for all your coverage. It was something I looked forward to every morning.

  2. Zoli on 1 October 2007 12:24 PM

    Thanks for the exceptional coverage of this WCC.
    Go on with the good work.

  3. ~~~~ on 1 October 2007 12:37 PM

    Gelfand’s tie is a bit long.

  4. Aaron on 1 October 2007 15:32 PM

    thx peter 4 those videos…

  5. Titu on 1 October 2007 18:26 PM

    Peter, many thanks for all the videos. Great coverage & interviews.

  6. Kristian on 1 October 2007 18:33 PM

    Thank you so very much for the coverage of the tournament. It’s been just superb.

    Kristian

  7. Lajos Arpad on 1 October 2007 19:19 PM

    This was one of the greatest coverages of the world championship i’ve ever seen. I would like to thank Peter his efforts to share the feelings and impressions about the world championship, i was feeling i’m almost in Mexico.

  8. FernandoMex on 1 October 2007 20:05 PM

    Thanks Peter, You have done an excellent job. I’m lucky to be a mexican, and be part of this great event, as spectator.

    Great speech by Anand, in Spanish!!! wau this guy is fenomenal, how many languages he knows?

    Anybody can tell me what’s the meaning on the NIIT initials Anand’s suit?

    Thanx

  9. Felix on 1 October 2007 20:13 PM

    I guess NIIT is his sponsor:
    http://www.niit.com/
    http://www.niit.com/vishy/

  10. سبت سبز on 1 October 2007 20:32 PM

    They are most probably his sponsors. NIIT is an Indian based IT company. Google them if you want to know more.

  11. Evi on 1 October 2007 20:45 PM

    Peter, great job, thanks a lot!
    Greatings from Hamburg
    Evi

  12. Andre on 1 October 2007 22:01 PM

    Where is Kirsan? Was he again abducted by UFO?

    As much as I was rooting for Topalov last year I am afraid that I have to agree with GM Illescas who estimated Kramnik’s chances in the coming match with Anand as 51 to 49.

    Gelfand long tie, Kramnik short trousers, a real fashion cat walk :-)

  13. Mark on 1 October 2007 23:21 PM

    Dankjewel en muchísimas gracias, Peter.
    It was indeed as if we were really there. A chess fan can’t wish for anything more than these articles and videos.
    Viva México, the organizers and the players: this was great publicity for our art/game/sport/science :-)

  14. Arne on 2 October 2007 0:02 AM

    Wow, I can´t believe I missed every single moment of the tournament. Oh well… congrats to Anand! And Peter, it seems you did fantastic coverage again. Cheers from Chile!

  15. hairulov on 2 October 2007 0:09 AM

    Thanks Peter for your contribution, it’s what i look forward every morning, evening, afternoon….

  16. peter on 2 October 2007 15:32 PM

    Thanks for all the positive comments!

  17. Turm on 2 October 2007 17:13 PM

    Absolutley great coverage! Ausgezeichnete Peter! Looking forward to Anand-Kramnik. Too bad such coverage did not exist in 1972 Fischer-Spassky!

  18. HWS / Chess Tigers on 3 October 2007 18:28 PM

    Very much thanks to Peter Doggers for made it happend that everybody on the world can have the feeling to stand live in México-City - like I it did 19 days.
    It’s the new world chess standard in documentation and coverage such events. I hope the organizers will understand that we need this people like Peter arround chess promotion - and we have to paid him well - not only honour!

    Hans-Walter Schmitt, Bad Soden am Taunus, Germany

  19. yb on 4 October 2007 3:08 AM

    Congrats to Anand !! A well deserved title…

    Great coverage and thanks a bunch for the videos and the chessvibes website.

    Just wondering what it would have been like if chessvibes would have been during the days of Capa,Alekhine,Bobby Fischer :)

  20. Sundaramurthy on 13 October 2007 11:23 AM

    You are right.NIIt is his sponsor .It is an IT training organisation stands for National Institute of Information Technology.

  21. Selvamani Keeran on 13 November 2007 1:50 AM

    Awesome, Good coverage. Congrats Anand! He deserved it and more.

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