Sofia (Xinhua): Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov beat U.S. champion Gata Kamsky on Monday in the fifth match of the World Chess Challenge in Sofia.
Topalov claimed his second victory in the World Chess Challenge at the 55th move. Topalov now leads Kamsky by 3 points against 2 points.
The sixth game will be contested on Tuesday at Sofia's National Palace of Culture and Kamsky will have the white pieces.
The World Chess Challenge Sofia 2009 will run until 28 February. The winner will compete for the world title against current world champion Viswanathan Anand of India.
There are at least three more matches to go, and if their points are even then, Kamsky and Topalov will meet in a tie-break.
Topalov, a former world champion, is currently ranked number one in the world. He has been among the world's best players for years, but it was only after the retirement of Garry Kasparov in 2005 that he broke through to the top.
Kamsky, No. 17 in the world, was a prodigy. He rose as high as No.4 by the time he was 21, played a match for the title in 1996 and then abruptly quit for eight years.
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