World champion Viswanathan Anand and challenger Boris Gelfand will play their 12-game World chess championship match at Moscow's State Tretyakov Gallery from May 10 to 31, 2012.
The contract of agreement for the match was signed on Saturday by Anand, Gelfand, the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Arkady Dvorkovich in Moscow.
Earlier, the Russian Chess Federation wanted to host the mega-match at the Moscow Science Park but changed the venue after Ilyumzhinov expressed his reservation over its size.
The State Tretyakov Gallery is the National treasury of Russian fine arts and one of the greatest museums in the world. It is located in Zamoskvorechye, close to the Kremlin.
Anand, who first become the World champion in 2000, regained the title in 2007 and retained it in 2008 and 2010. The title-match offers $2.5 million with 60 per cent going to the winner and rest to the loser.
