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BAKU REMAINS WITHOUT CANDIDATE MATCHES 2011
Aysor
July 27 2010
Armenia
The candidate matches, a tournament, qualifying for the World
Chess Championship 2011 will take place in Kazan, Russia, the FIDE
presidential board announced from Norwegian town of Tromso.
Despite the fact that Azerbaijan had already signed an agreement
and had transferred 150 000 eur to FIDE, the tournament was moved
to Kazan. It's worth mentioning that Armenia's Grand Master Levon
Aronian said earlier that he wouldn't travel to Azerbaijan.
Given the previous agreement with Baku, it has been decided to keep
Azerbaijan's Grand Master Shakhriyar Mamedyarov as the nominated
player. The candidates at Qualifying Tournament include Veselin
Topalov (Bulgaria), Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia),
Levon Aronian (Armenia), Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan), Boris Gelfand
(Israel) and Gata Kamsky (USA).
In case of a possible withdraw of ex World Champion Veselin Topalov,
(the reasons were detailed in his open letter) FIDE's head Kirsan
Ilyumkinov sad would send him a letter asking not to take hasty
decisions. However, if Topalov doesn't change his mind, there will
be a substitute player - GM Alexander Grischuk.
From: A. Papazian
Aysor
July 27 2010
Armenia
The candidate matches, a tournament, qualifying for the World
Chess Championship 2011 will take place in Kazan, Russia, the FIDE
presidential board announced from Norwegian town of Tromso.
Despite the fact that Azerbaijan had already signed an agreement
and had transferred 150 000 eur to FIDE, the tournament was moved
to Kazan. It's worth mentioning that Armenia's Grand Master Levon
Aronian said earlier that he wouldn't travel to Azerbaijan.
Given the previous agreement with Baku, it has been decided to keep
Azerbaijan's Grand Master Shakhriyar Mamedyarov as the nominated
player. The candidates at Qualifying Tournament include Veselin
Topalov (Bulgaria), Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia),
Levon Aronian (Armenia), Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan), Boris Gelfand
(Israel) and Gata Kamsky (USA).
In case of a possible withdraw of ex World Champion Veselin Topalov,
(the reasons were detailed in his open letter) FIDE's head Kirsan
Ilyumkinov sad would send him a letter asking not to take hasty
decisions. However, if Topalov doesn't change his mind, there will
be a substitute player - GM Alexander Grischuk.
From: A. Papazian