FIDE will NOT Consider Request for Topalov’s Disqualification
December 27, 2006
FOCUS News Agency
News from Sofia
According to the FOCUS News Agency, FIDE press office told them that they would not consider the request for Veselin Topalov’s disqualification over insults made towards Vladimir Kramnik after the match for the World Chess Championship title.
Even though the issue has not been included in FIDE Presidential Council’s agenda in Antayia on January 29, 2007, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has indirectly confirmed that nobody in the federation thinks of imposing penalty on Topalov.
“I would like to thank two of the world’s best chess players Veselin Topalov and Vladimir Kramnik for agreeing to play a joint match for the world title. In April they signed an agreement for this match under the auspices of FIDE. I hope the argument between them on the chess board will continue to the delight of everybody who loves chess,” Ilyumzhinov said, cited by Mayak radio.
He added that the atmosphere in Elista during the match was nervous. “After all this was a match for the world chess title. Now everything is over and what has left is the result – Kramnik is the world chess champion. Actually this toilet scandal played a good PR role – a lot of people took an interest in chess,” Ilyumzhinov concluded.
Source: FOCUS NEWS AGENCY
Now we know that Kramnik is a cry baby. Boo hoo, fide won’t help you.
“Actually this toilet scandal played a good PR role – a lot of people took an interest in chess,” Ilyumzhinov concluded.
Is this clown serious? Ya, it created interest in chess the same way steroids brought about interest in baseball. He must have taken a crash course in the Bud Sielig method of commissionership…pretend nothing happened and hope it all just goes away.
“Is this clown serious?”
Why you talk like this?? In my village 10 people who never knew chess started talking about it after they read the toilet news on the front news page.
Who’s FOCUS news agency? Why advertise them for free?
FIDE is finished
Kirsan is a clown indeed with no intention of taking any control of Chess
He is encouraging anarchy since it is good for publicity!!
I do not yet believe it. I want to see a report from fide first. This is almost unbelieveable, except with Kirsan around anything like this is possible.
Well if Kiraan thinks this is good for chess then he should put Topalov into Mexico and have Kramnik play the winner of Mexico.
This confirms WCC scandal was orchestrated set-up with top-rated GM Topalov as scapegoat.
>> Who’s FOCUS news agency? Why advertise them for free?
Focus News Agency is much more reliable news agency than ChessBase which (ChessBase) spread the lie about the FIDE ban.
Kirsan is cunning enough to know that if he bans Topalov, it will be the end of FIDE.
Copy and paste,
The first quote was maid before the match.
The first half of the second quote was made by Kirsan post match, but the last half is a direct misquote.
These kids will never give up.
This confirms that Topalov really embarrassed Kirsan (and FIDE) by losing his title (and choking) to Kramnik, and what’s more that Kirsan will suckle his baby (Topalov) even when he needs spanking.
This is hypocrisy. Now any wanker chess player can accuse his opponent of cheating – distract his opponentnd get away with blantant lies. I hope they pursue defamation charges in court
Let Kramnik start a court case instead of crying to ChessBase and asking Kirsan for help. He will not do it because his lawyers know that the evidence for his cheating is strong enough to cost him his stolen title.
the 2007 World Open will have 1400 players each playing 9 games. this gives about 6300 games total. Bill Goichberg is preparing for 6000 protests that the opponent cheated. In some cases where a draw occurred, both players will log protests.
The 2008 World Open will be delayed for 2 years while they wade through all the protests from the 2007 tournament.
Kirsan says this is great for chess. He claims we need similar publicity all around the world.
The International Olympic Committee says computers are not on the banned list. They want all players checked for caffeine during every game.
Silvia Danailov says that his keychain toilets are now more popular than pet rocks.
Bill G announces that in 300 games the winner logged a protest against the loser that he was cheating. The winners claim they could tell the loser was cheating.
The International Court on Sports in Lousanne Switzerland said they will not take any more cheating cases in chess. They said everyone cheats at chess and thus it is ok to cheat if everyone else is cheating.
This just CLEARLY proves that Topalov’s accusations is 200% valid. Remeber Kirsan is businessman/Politician.. What ultimately counts for him is chess is unified…. however is not important at present as long as his Powerful freinds (Russia) are happy as well as money making possibilities in the future. I wish you public just only new how dirty politics truely is… I only wish. IT’s A CHESS GAME on a LARGER SCALE. I’m going to be very blunt. I Strongly believe Kramnik cheated. So many fact are just pointing against him
Now we know that Kramnik is a cry baby. Boo hoo, fide won’t help you.
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Stop crying. Your man lost. Kramnik’s champ, Topalov isn’t. Now dry your eyes and deal with it.
“Kirsan is cunning enough to know that if he bans Topalov, it will be the end of FIDE.”
That’s a pretty ridiculous statement. Topalov is no Bobby Fischer. He was top rated player when the match was played, but he’s lost even that to Anand. He brings no special media attention to the game like Fischer did. A few articles in Spiegel entitled “Kalmykian President Makes Farce of Chess Championships” hardly equates to the Fischer boom. Topalov could be banned quite safely, Kirsan is just still playing favorites.
Amazing that Topalov can be handed so many unprecedented advantages and still manage to lose. He was clearly highly overrated. Leko, of all people, did better against Kramnik than Topalov did.
Have some respect for GM Topalov.
Don’t presume to know the truth about what happened because you read about it in the media.
Is it not strange to leave a chess board while one’s clock is running, then come back and immediately make a move? GM Topalov has a right to protest if he is suspicious of this. After all, the world chess championship is on the line.
Anyway, why would a chess fan want to see one of the greatest players in the world banned?
Why did they not ban Kasparov when he took his hand off a knight for a quarter of a second after he had moved it, and re-positioned it against GM J. Polgar? Or Fischer, for his ridiculous behaviour?
Who cares?
Is it not better that they play chess?
Also, “clowns” don’t get to where Mr Ilyumzhinov is, and he has done a lot for chess, (the reunification of the championship, for example)
The world championship did lead to increased popularity for chess.
It is not surprising that FIDE will not ban Topalov.
KI: “Actually this toilet scandal played a good PR role – a lot of people took an interest in chess”
We would like to that the public and (investors) interest to chess to surge up to the levels of the era of Fisher-Karpov-Kasparov, but alas the situation today is far from that. They have been many reasons for long time to explain this to happen: the weakness of FIDE, weak authority and strong leadership, the rift inside the chess community, the end of the cold war era, and (some argue) the fact that the top players today do not match the chess rank of the three mentioned. Whatever are the reasons, it is obvious that the more aggressive PR would be only beneficial for recovering the public interest, hence loo-fame is better than no-fame. The more scandals, the more attention, the more money. The KI’s sugarcoated KI statement above itself is a PR expression, meant to bypass answers to some bitter and dificult questions about how professionally the match was organized and run and was there something more than “nervous” in Elista.
In fact, what is the real source of the Elista’s WCC “bad toilet smell“ (so inconvinient for KI and FIDE) is the very fact that FIDE did not expect, did not prevent and then did not tackle the scandal well. Nor Topalov neither Kramnik is to blame for the scandal, but the lack of safeguards and precautions by the orginisers, regarding few critical aspects of the match which drmatically compromised the very assuredness for fair-play in both teams.
We still wait KI to answer too Danailov’s questions: Was there a data cable discovered in Mr. Kramnik toilet and how the org committee explains its existence? Was there and is there still any cover-up of part of this incident by KI and FIDE? Does it exist a written statement about this development? Were there any resignations handed in by the second appeal committee members regarding what happened? Finally, when the full and official FIDE report for the Ellista events will be published?
>> Topalov could be banned quite safely, Kirsan is just still playing favorites.
This is the ridiculous statement. Banning the highest rated player from the weak FIDE tournaments will immediately make FIDE a marginal organisation. Topalov will just play at MTel, Corba, Linares/Morelia, and other strong tournaments and increase his rating. This will lead FIDE to the path of dissolution.
Yes!! These exactly are the questions!
“We still wait KI to answer too Danailov’s questions: Was there a data cable discovered in Mr. Kramnik toilet and how the org committee explains its existence? Was there and is there still any cover-up of part of this incident by KI and FIDE? Does it exist a written statement about this development? Were there any resignations handed in by the second appeal committee members regarding what happened? Finally, when the full and official FIDE report for the Ellista events will be published?”
Thank you!
I don’t understand why the majority of players supports M. Kramnik. For me, the accusations of Topalov are not so ridiculous, and must be examined with care.
Vlad is not yet the better; he canceled several tourneys because poor health. His math vs. Fritz 10 showed a monumental failure.
Even if Kramnik did not cheat in Elista, his behaviour was intended to accredit the doubt he cheated, and so to undermine Topalov’s mind. This guilty behaviour must be sanctionned.
A REMATCH IN A NEUTRAL COUNTRY IS THE ONE AND ONLY WAY.
To get rid of Vlad-the-cheater, Veselin has three possibilities :
1/ The Polonium-210.
The more efficacious, but the more conspicuous. Collateral damages to foresee.
2/ The bulgarian umbrella.
The bulgarian umbrella is an umbrella with a hidden pneumatic mechanism. Discretion guaranteed. Good result in the Markov’s affair.
3/ The poisonned pawn variant.
Used with success by E. Lasker, R. Fine, S. Flohr.