The World Championship match between the 15th undisputed World Champion, Anand, and the 18th FIDE World Champion and one-time challenger, Veselin Topalov has been announced to take place in the challenger's home country of Bulgaria from April 23rd to May 11th 2010, chessbase has reported.
I believe this is the first time that FIDE has organized a tournament in a home country of one of the paricpiants, although there have been several instances in the pre FIDE days where this was done (1921 Lasker-Capablanca was in Cuba, 1935 Euwe--Alekhine was in the Netherlands). Also when Kasparov and Short broke away from FIDE and organized the match on their own it was held in England, Short's home country, however all three of those were when the two players together organized a match, rather than FIDE organizing it for them.
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