Campo Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
The Philippine Sportswriters Association shall give FIDE Honorary President Florencio Campomanes their highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award at ceremonies today. Campo founded the Philippine Chess Federaiton in 1956 and became FIDE Zone President, Deputy President and President from 1982 to 1995. He celebrates his 80th birthday on 22nd February.
Source: FIDE
New bank guarantee, FIDE replies
Jan 22, 06:29 PM
Two days ago Vesela Lecheva and Silvio Danailov finalized the deal for a new bank guarantee from Bulbank and sent it to FIDE. It is for $ 2 million and is again supported by the same organizing committee.
Today, FIDE replied. The letter to the Bulgarian team states, that the guarantee and the documents have been received. A decision on the future match will be taken on the 27th of January. The team of Vladimir Kramnik has also been informed about the current situation.
According to the news agency Focus, the letter contains an important line, saying, “Your proposal will be discussed in Antalia on the 27th of January, and then we will decide when the match Kramnik-Topalov will take place.” Expect the full text of the letter soon.
Source: Veselin Topalov Fan Site 
If FIDE’s response is correctly translated, this is excellent news. Exciting for the chess world.
http://standartnews.com/bg/article.php?d=2007-01-25&article= 175972
Yeah, getting convicted removes Campo from the top echelon of FIDE legends, who usually manage to avoid that.
The Kramnik-Topalov match may suffer the same fate as Topalov-Radjabov did. The champion may no longer by champion by the time they get to it. There’s certainly no time for such a match before Mexico City. Legally any such match has to end before March 11. That’s not even sufficient time to prepare for a match much less play it.
Hi,
Kramnik will have support of Russia and part of former SU players but not the all world for sur. More people are for Topalov because of his play.
Russian and dependent media action will not change that.
Regards
P.
These are really chaotic rules; time problems for sure…
If Kramnik is well adviced, he should play a remach; he would get 1-million dollars…
Playing the championship in Mexico in autumn, not in a match!?, but in a group, he has good chances too losse his title…
Say what you will, his other doings aside, Campomanes signed my FIDE GM certificate and I think nothing less of my achievement…