FIDE bows to Anand and pressure Press Trust of India NEW DELHI, April 1: After initially depriving Viswanathan Anand of the top position in its latest ranking list, the International Chess Federation (Fide) today bowed to widespread pressure and...
Breaking News – Anand will be #1
According to ChessBase, after a lot of pressure from the All India Chess Federation, FIDE will rate the Linares tournament even though it was after the submission deadline. This should give Anand the #1 spot in the April 1...
India protests
AICF PRESS RELEASE AICF Takes Up Linares Issue With FIDEThe All India Chess Federation has taken up the rating issue of the Morelia/Linares Chess Tournament with FIDE, the World Chess Body for excluding the World’s Premier event from the...
Conspiracy theory or honest mistake?
I expected to see Anand’s name at the top of the April FIDE rating list. So did many other people. However, FIDE came out with the list today and Topalov remained at the #1 spot. It seems that Linares...
Organizer banned 5 years by FIDE
Court of Arbitration for Sport Rules in favor of FIDE, Rejecting Touze Demands FIDE v Touzé The 2005 World Youth Championship was awarded to France and the organizer Mr Touzé, hosted the Championship in Belfort during July that year....
Do we have chess historians?
One of the bloggers just made a very interesting point: World Champion vs. World #1 Ranking When was the last time a Classical World Champion not the #1 rated player in the world (at the start of the World...
#1?
Anand will be the new #1 player in the world in 4 days. Who do you think will be the next #1 player in the world after Anand? Aronian? Mamedyarov? Radjabov? Someone else? Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
ACP proposal regarding Appeals Committee
ACP Proposal regarding Appeals Committeehttp://chess-players.org/eng/news/viewarticle.html?id=617 19th of March 2007 To: Mr Kirsan Ilyumzhinov – FIDE President, FIDE World Chess Championship Committee, FIDE Office Dear Sir, Recently, the ACP has received many complaints (one of them attached) regarding the work...
2006 Chess Oscar
FIDE and www.64.ru are conducting a vote for the 2006 Chess Oscar. This is for the best chess players for the entire year of 2006. The votes are for position 1-10. 1st in the list – 13 points, 2nd...
Charter planes for the WC candidates
FIDE just made this announcement on the official FIDE website: Charter flight from Moscow to Elista The Organizing Committee of the Candidates Matches for the 2007 World Championship Tournament informs that a charter flight for participants, their accompanying persons,...