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Veselin Topalov (IPA: [ve.se’lin to’pÉ‘.lof]; Bulgarian: Веселин Топалов) (born 15 March 1975) is a Bulgarian chess grandmaster and former FIDE world champion. In the January 2007 FIDE rating list, he is ranked number one in the world with an Elo rating of 2783.[1] His current trainer and manager is International Master Silvio Danailov.

Topalov became the FIDE World Chess Champion by winning the FIDE World Chess Championship 2005. Topalov was awarded the 2005 Chess Oscar.[2] Topalov had the second highest Elo rating of all time at 2813 (October 2006).

Topalov played Classical World Champion Vladimir Kramnik in a twelve-game title unification match. The match was drawn at 6-6, and Kramnik won the tie-break 2.5-1.5 to unify the titles and dethrone Topalov.

Topalov has been repeatedly accused of computer assisted cheating in recent years.[3][4] Former World Chess Champion contender Nigel Short has called on the FIDE to investigate.

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