High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The World Chess Championship 2012 will be a match between the current world champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel, winner of the Candidates tournament. The match will be held in May 2012 at the Skolkovo foundation (Silicon Valley of Russia) near Moscow, Russia to determine the World Chess Champion. The match will be held under the auspices of FIDE, the World Chess Federation. The prize fund is 2.55 million US Dollars.