Off to Mexico

The final 4 qualifiers form the Mexico World Championship Tounament have been decided from the 2007 Candidates Matches. Earlier in the week Peter Leko and Boris Gelfand qualified with 3.5-1.5 wins over Kamsky and Bareev respectively. Lev Aronian nursed his 1 point lead (from Game 1) over Alexei Shirov all the way to the end to win 3.5-2.5. The only match that went to tiebreaks (after finishing 3-3 in regulation) ended in a 2.5-0.5 win by Alexandar Grischuk over Sergei Rublevsky.
The field for WCC 2007 will be Kramnik, Anand, Svidler, Morozevich, Leko, Gelfand, Aronian, and Grischuk. Although the tournament is still a way off (starting 13th September) I feel that it might be Anand's turn to wear the World Champions crown.