10.29.14 The World Chess Championship Match 2014 between the current world champion, Magnus Carlsen, and challenger Viswanathan Anand, will be held from 7 November to 28 November 2014, under the auspices of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) in Sochi, Russia. Here's a preview of the event including the match schedule.

Anand became the official challenger by winning the 2014 Candidates Tournament, an eight-player double round-robin tournament that took place in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia, from 13 March to 31 March 2014.

Match System: The World Chess Championship Match 2014 will consist of 12 games and if necessary, tie-break games. The time control for the "classical" portion of the match will be: 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, 60 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting after move 61 has been made.

The event will be covered live at a number of websites including ChessBase's playchess.com and The Internet Chess Club.

Here is the official website of the match: sochi2014.fide.com.

Games will begin at 3:00 p.m. Moscow time which is 7:00 a.m. on the east coast of the United States.

World Chess Championship 2014
Match Schedule

08 November 2014 Saturday Game 1
09 November 2014 Sunday Game 2

10 November 2014 Monday Rest day

11 November 2014 Tuesday Game 3
12 November 2014 Wednesday Game 4

13 November 2014 Thursday Rest day

14 November 2014 Friday Game 5
15 November 2014 Saturday Game 6

16 November 2014 Sunday Rest day

17 November 2014 Monday Game 7
18 November 2014 Tuesday Game 8

19 November 2014 Wednesday Rest day

20 November 2014 Thursday Game 9
21 November 2014 Friday Game 10

22 November 2014 Saturday Rest day

23 November 2014 Sunday Game 11

24 November 2014 Monday Rest day

25 November 2014 Tuesday Game 12

26 November 2014 Wednesday Rest day

27 November 2014 Thursday Tie-break games