Boiko Borisov meets Veselin Topalov tomorrow
The Prime Minister Borisov will discuss with the team of Topalov the WCC match with Anand
The new Prime Minister of Bulgaria Mr. Boiko Borisov will have a meeting with the leader in the FIDE rating list Veselin Topalov and his manager Silvio Danailov. The meeting will take place tomorrow at 12:00 CET, says the official press release by Zhivko Ginchev.
Main topic of the discussion will be the organization of the World Chess Championship match 2010 between Vishwanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov, that is scheduled for April next year.
“Being a host of such a match is an incredible opportunity for advertisement and PR of Bulgaria,” commented Silvio Danailov. “Anand is the sports person of the century in India and very popular in all Asia. The matches for the World Championship are sports, social, and political events. Hosting such a match can put Bulgaria ahead and will be very positive for tourism and other areas of the economy.”
Danailov revealed that Eurosport, CNN, and Al Jazeera have already expressed to FIDE their desire to report daily on the WCC final. However, one more time (just as it was in the presentation of Kasparov – Karpov) the organizers are way off with the internet users numbers, stating 5 million people will follow online daily.
FIDE is expecting bids from more countries and Chessdom.com, in collaboration with the Chesscube WCC blog, will bring you daily information on the development.
Stay tuned for the details and results of the meeting with Boiko Borisov tomorrow. Borisov became famous for his software block at Mtel Masters this year. It was there when the negotiations for organizing the match in Sofia began, and they will be finalized tomorrow in the afternoon.
Topalov has already started preparation for the WCC 2010
Veselin Topalov has already started preparation for the WCC 2010 match with Anand. Just yesterday, a Cuban radio revealed that Topalov has attracted to his team Leinier Dominguez Perez. More about possible seconds of the players can be followed here.
Sofia would be a nice place to play.
Yes Sofia would be nice – for Topalov/Danailov only.
That should be neutral ground – no Bulgaria, no India.
How about Sofia then?
This is the last of the “Old Chess” matches who do you think is gunna win?
Topalov is like “Botvinnik II” he gets a thousand chances to try for the title and in his own country. This guy was thrashed by Kramnik and now is playing for the World Championship! Huh? And Anand was gifted the Title by Kramnik. All I can do is laugh at all this.
Interesting.
Kramnik needed rapid tie-breaks to “trash” Topalov, but Kramnik somehow lost by misfortune to Anand with a 2 point margin.
Very interesting.
More interesting is why you leave out the game awarded to Topalov for the interesting excursion Danialov took in the bathroom of Kramnik’s which was the only reason the tie breaks got played in the first place. And interesting why Kramnik need to challenge Anand as the challenger for his own title. Interesting system there resulting in the non-interesting coffeehouse player match we have now.
Wow imagine how Bulgaria’s international lenders will react when they find out Bulgaria’s been blowing up its aid on chess matches in the wake of the recession…
How was the title Kramnik’s in 2007 or even before that? Interesting is why Kramnik played a match that Kasparov should have rightfully played with Shirov.
At least Kramnik always got offered a match or tournament (2007). Poor Shirov did not get anything.
“More interesting is why you leave out the game awarded to Topalov for the interesting excursion Danialov took in the bathroom of Kramnik’s which was the only reason the tie breaks got played in the first place. And interesting why Kramnik need to challenge Anand as the challenger for his own title. Interesting system there resulting in the non-interesting coffeehouse player match we have now.”
Nobody prevented Kramnik from playing. He chose not to, just like Fischer in 1972. If they wanted to give their opponents free points, then thats their problem.
How would it be any different if Kramnik was the champion and Anand the challenger? There was no champions advantage, the prize money was split equally and so on. And please don’t tell me it was a psychological thing, because Kramnik said before the match that he doesn’t consider that he lost the title in Mexico. And if he was psychologically affected because he was only the challenger then that is his problem, isn’t it?
You are just delusional if you think that Kramnik should have any claims to the title. Someone earlier compared Topalov with Botvinnik for getting so many chances. But did Topalov really get so many chances? He got only one – getting seeded into the challenger match against 2007 World cup winner (Kamsky). On the other hand Kramnik got a championship match with Kasparov after getting defeated by Shirov in the challenger match, got invited to 2005 San Louis, after simply refusing to play in San Louis getting another chance in 2006, after losing the title in Mexico 2007, he got yet another free pass in 2008. And rumours are that he will get another free pass to the 2010 Candidates. So who already used up all the byes in the world???