Comments on: Breaking: Ilyumzhinov announces Candidates Tournament

By: val

val — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:16:02 +0000

@ Sutton. Yes, that old system is quite suitable, it is as just and objective as possible under the circumstances. But who cares? Were it not for unhealthy human ambitions (whether in the chess world or elsewhere}, we all would have lived in paradise long ago.

By: xtra

xtra — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:29:15 +0000

“this is Manu’s automatic telephone answer. would you like to have 750,000 dollars? Da.”

he he.

but seriously, maybe the best thing would be if Anand or one of the other strongest players went off and formed his own cycle. cant think of anyone who tried that before…

By: Manu

Manu — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:00:14 +0000

Yeah , Peter that s really makes you want to have a video camara .
I would make the presidents ?Ç¬®Da?Ç¬® my ringtone , and then i would start promising stupid things to anyone who would call me.

By: Arne Moll

Arne Moll — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:07:31 +0000

Wow, isn’t that last confession actually worth a separate news item? “FIDE president deliberately publishes false press release” – hmm, nice scoop!

By: Peter Doggers

Peter Doggers — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:57:03 +0000

No, but one thing is interesting to mention, though. Ilyumzhinov admitted that his “personal guarantee” of US$ 750,000 to save the Kamsky-Topalo match was never really going to happen, despite the fact that it was published in an official press release on June 1st. By then he was still waiting for Chernenko’s money. To a journalist’s question whether this press release was not true, but only meant to help Mr Chernenko, the FIDE President answered: “Da.”

By: Phil Bourke

Phil Bourke — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:09:02 +0000

@ Peter
Ah well, these things happen
Any chance you are able to add a transcript of the Q&A’s?

By: kibik

kibik — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:10:25 +0000

For all who are wondering why Topalov get a match against Kamski:
After Topalov lost a strange match in Elista the FIDE rules allowed for any player above the 2700 ELO to challenge the world champion if a certain prize fund is guaranteed. Topalov managed with the support from the Bulgarian chess federation and government to challenge Kramnik and guarantee the funds needed. FIDE played all trick to avoid this game as they new that this will be a disaster for Kramnik ( as was the match with Anand). Topalov was not even allowed to play in Mexico. It is obvious that the best players now are Anand and Topalov and we should be able to see a true world championship game between them.

By: Peter Doggers

Peter Doggers — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:03:53 +0000

@Phil
Didn’t expect them to speak about anything else than the organisational aspects of the Olympiad; besides, no player was there either. But as soon as some journalists started asking some tough questions I regretted it.

By: Sutton

Sutton — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 07:41:43 +0000

One other thing.

didn’t FIDE get rid of candidates’ tournaments back in the 1960’s after Fischer brought the unfairness of it to light. Matches were much fairer!

The old system was

Zonal tournaments – usually National championships etc
Interzonals
Matches

What was wrong with this. Any FIDE registered player could play. Players knew what they needed to do. The challenger was usually the strongest match player at the time. Was this system ever a problem?

By: chessfan

chessfan — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:26:39 +0000

sorry http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/3552-the-79th-fide-congress-completed-its-session-in-dresden