The World Championship: What's Next?
As I understand it, there are four bits of information to pass along:
1. The Topalov-Radjabov world championship match scheduled for 2007 is off: as far as I'm aware, this match is now off for both parties.
2. Rematch? Have a look here. According to Danailov, "FIDE regulations allow every world champion that has lost the title to challenge the title holder." Danailov proposes a start date of March 3, 2007 in Sofia, Bulgaria. It will be very interesting to see what comes of this.
3. Candidates Matches: These are on for Elista in April of 2007. Pairings for the first round of matches (assuming they don't switch to a tournament format) are Levon Aronian-Magnus Carlsen, Peter Leko-Mikhail Gurevich, Ruslan Ponomariov-Sergey Rublevsky, Boris Gelfand-Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Etienne Bacrot-Gata Kamsky, Alexander Grischuk-Vladimir Malakhov, Judit Polgar-Evgeny Bareev, and Alexei Shirov-Michael Adams. The final four from this event make it on to...
4. The World Championships in Mexico City. The four surviving candidates meet the top 4 from San Luis: Kramnik (replacing Topalov), Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler and Alexander Morozevich. At this point, Topalov (or Kramnik, should the match occur when Danailov wants it to and Topalov wins) is out. This is scheduled to occur to begin September 12, 2007.
1. The Topalov-Radjabov world championship match scheduled for 2007 is off: as far as I'm aware, this match is now off for both parties.
2. Rematch? Have a look here. According to Danailov, "FIDE regulations allow every world champion that has lost the title to challenge the title holder." Danailov proposes a start date of March 3, 2007 in Sofia, Bulgaria. It will be very interesting to see what comes of this.
3. Candidates Matches: These are on for Elista in April of 2007. Pairings for the first round of matches (assuming they don't switch to a tournament format) are Levon Aronian-Magnus Carlsen, Peter Leko-Mikhail Gurevich, Ruslan Ponomariov-Sergey Rublevsky, Boris Gelfand-Rustam Kasimdzhanov, Etienne Bacrot-Gata Kamsky, Alexander Grischuk-Vladimir Malakhov, Judit Polgar-Evgeny Bareev, and Alexei Shirov-Michael Adams. The final four from this event make it on to...
4. The World Championships in Mexico City. The four surviving candidates meet the top 4 from San Luis: Kramnik (replacing Topalov), Viswanathan Anand, Peter Svidler and Alexander Morozevich. At this point, Topalov (or Kramnik, should the match occur when Danailov wants it to and Topalov wins) is out. This is scheduled to occur to begin September 12, 2007.
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on
Sunday October 15, 2006 at 6:03pm
I'm not holding my breath :)
Now is the time to see if he can't work through the acp and get a decent candidates *match* cycle that culminates in a WC *match* going. FIDE has no binding agreements with anyone since they have already breached what they originally set forth.
Kramnik had private sponsorship for his match with Topalov. (more than what they ultimately agreed to) FIDE was not *required* to be involved. Now Kramnik has Topalovs title so there shouldn't be an issue with moeny. Finally we will get private sponsorship. Now is the time to do this or there will never be another chance to save the title from FIDE's tournaments championship.
I'm glad the title is unified but I see no reason to continue to associate with Kirsan and company. In fact, I think it would be a terrible mistake to continue down that path!
And he apparently already has the money. Why wouldn't they want to sponsor Radjabov-Kramnik if they did want to sponsor Radjabov-Topalov?
Danailov has only said that they will find the money although I surely think they are able to. But it seems Radjabov is "first in line." Of course, the FIDE regulations don't seem to say what happens if there are several challenges.