With its use by Vladimir Kramnik, the Catalan has gained a good deal of attention by high-level GMs in recent times. Kramnik played the opening three times in the World Chess Championship 2006. The Catalan was also played four times by Viswanathan Anand in the World Chess Championship 2010; in both instances the opponent was Veselin Topalov, and in each instance White scored two more points than Black.