Vishwanathan Anand to compete with Alexander Khalifman, World chess championship in the year 2000, in Delhi

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World Chess Championship in New Delhi. In the quarter-final of the championship Indian chess player, Vishwanathan Anand competes with current World Champion Russia's Alexander Khalifman. Vishwanathan Anand defeated Polland's Bartlomiej Macieja in the pre-quarterfinals and Alexander Khalifman defeated Rafael Leitão of Brazil. "Vishwanathan Anand is one of the best chess players in the world and this type of world championship format suits him but Alaxender Khalifman is a tough competition to Vishwanathan Anand. I have played with both of them. Vishwanathan Anand's judgment skill and his style of quick play are good." Apart from both of them Alexis Shirov of Spain won the tiebreaker match against G. Gelfand of Israel and introduced himself as a strong contender for the trophy. This footage i