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Veselin Topalov ( of 2804 {Link without Title} . Topalov was born in Ruse, Bulgaria . He was taught to play chess when he was eight years old by his father. In 1989 he won the World Under 14 Championship in Aguadilla , Puerto Rico , and in 1990 won the silver medal at the World Under-16 Championship in Singapore . He became a Grandmaster in 1992. His current trainer and manager is International Master Silvio Danailov . Topalov has been the leader of the Bulgarian national team since 1994. At the Chess Olympiad in 1994 in Moscow he led the Bulgarians to a fourth-place finish. He has won a number of tournaments, and at the FIDE World Chess Championship in New Delhi in 2000 reached the quarter-finals. Topalov won (+4 =5 -1) the M-tel Masters 2005 tournament, held 11 May to 22 May in Sofia , Bulgaria. The victory was achieved by a last round win over Vladimir Kramnik in an unusual game featuring multiple blunders by both sides. Viswanathan Anand finished second, back by one point, in a field of six including Ruslan Ponomariov , Michael Adams , and Judit Polgar . The average rating of the participants was 2744, making this super-GM, double Round-robin Tournament the strongest in 2005. The unification between the FIDE World Title (held by Veselin Topalov) and the Classical Chess World Title (held by Vladimir Kramnik ) has been fervently encouraged by the chess community and on the 16th April 2006 , Kirsan Ilyumzhinov , the current President of FIDE , announced that a match between Kramnik and Topalov will go ahead in September of 2006 . Both players have agreed to the match. NOTABLE TOURNAMENT VICTORIES
SAMPLE GAME On the way to winning M-Tel Masters in 2005 , Topalov defeated former FIDE World Champion Ruslan Ponomariov with the white pieces in a Queen's Indian Defense . The moves are given in Algebraic Notation . (Analysis by Shredder 9 .) 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Ba6 5.b3 Bb4+ 6.Bd2 Be7 7.Nc3 O-O 8.Rc1 c6 9.e4 d5 10.e5 Ne4 11.Bd3 Nxc3 12.Rxc3 c5 13.dxc5 bxc5 14.h4 h6 15.Bb1 f5? Needlessly weakening the position. Better is 15. ... Nd7 16. Bxh6!? f5 (16...gxh6 17.Qc2 f5 18.exf6 Rxf6 19.Qh7+ Kf8 20.Ng5! wins) 17. Bf4 Qa5, which may have given black good chances for equality. '''16.exf6 Bxf6 17.Qc2! d4''' 17. ... Bxc3? leads to bloody death after 18. Qh7+ Kf7 19. Bxc3, with an overwhelming attack. But Topalov found a way to break black's defenses in Ponomariov's chosen line, too. (See diagram) '''18.Ng5!! hxg5 19.hxg5 dxc3 20.Bf4 Kf7 21.Qg6+ Ke7 22.gxf6+ Rxf6 23.Qxg7+ Rf7 24.Bg5+ Kd6 25.Qxf7 Qxg5 26.Rh7 Qe5+ 27.Kf1 Kc6 28.Qe8+ Kb6 29.Qd8+ Kc6 30.Be4+! 1-0''' EXTERNAL LINKS
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