The Chess Challengers match between Veselin Topalov and Gata Kamsky will be held February 16 - 28 in Sofia in the 6th Hall of NDK.

The match will consist of 8 games. If there is a tie at the end of these games a tiebreak will be played on the last day of the competition.

The prize fund, which will be split equally between the players is $250 000.

The games will be commented live on Chessdom.com (http://live.chessdom.com/topalov-kamsky-2009-g1.html") by GM Dimitrov</a>.by GM Dimitrov and of course at all major international news websites.

The official site of the event is www.wccc2009.com and via our mini website at http://sofia2009.fide.com with highlights after every game published on our front page.