The 2004 championship also earned him one of sixteen places in the Candidates Tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007.
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In early 2006, FIDE had already announced the conditions for the World Chess Championship 2007: an eight-player tournament which included FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov, but not "Classical" World Champion Vladimir Kramnik.