Grand Prix: Adams also out; Akopian, Alekseev, Eljanov & Kasimdzhanov in
11 December 2008 17:27 PM CET By Peter Doggers
Peter from chessvibes.com just published the following:
England’s top player Michael Adams has followed Magnus Carlsen in withdrawing from the FIDE Grand Prix Series. Nominated players Mohamad Al Modiahki and Yannick Pelletier are also out and the four will be substituted by Vladimir Akopian, Evgeny Alekseev, Pavel Eljanov and Rustam Kasimdzhanov. Wrap-up of new GP developments.
Next Sunday is the first round of the third Grand Prix tournament, which will take place 13-29 December in Elista, Kalmykia. When on November 21st the tournament was moved from Doha to Elista, Magnus Carlsen and Michael Adams were the names we mentioned of two players who were “clearly not happy” about it. Now they are the ones who have left the Grand Prix Series.
Adams also outAfter Magnus Carlsen decided to withdraw due to his disappointment concerning the sudden change of the current World Championship cycle, Michael Adams is now officially out as well.
Here is the full article by Peter.
This is really a mess. Too bad chess players will suffer again.
At least Ilyumzhinov is putting a lot of his money. Goichberg only milks money from chess players.
How FIDE can change the championship cycle so often? Is Ilyumzhinov’s decision or the board’s decision?
Just goes to show that Kasparov’s and Short’s break from FIDE was definitely the right move – unfortunately, not too many players had the guts to follow suit. Following the great “reunification” match we got the same mess again. Yippie!
FIDE is run by a weenie. Soon FIDE will be fini. RIP FIDE.
Hey people, it’s very simple:
The really bad guy behind the scenes is…Silvio Danailov.
He tried to turn the match Kramnik/Topalov at 0-2 into Topalovs favour with dubious off-the board methods; then after Topalov had lost the match he tried to get an immediate (!) re-match even before the WCC in Mexico 2007; [would he have granted Kramnik an immediate re-match, if Topalov had won?! – answer the question yourself…]
after he didn’t get that he again pulled behind-the-scenes in order to get Topalov a match for free against the world champion (in case Kramnik had won in Mexico 2007) or a place for free in the candidates final (if sb else won, which Anand did)
Now Topalov will play for free against Kamsky (who had to win the world cup in order to qualify!); in case he wins this he has another shot against Anand to become world champion…and if he looses, well then he has a place – again for free! – in the upcoming candidates matches; everybody else, including Carlsen, Adams etc. should go through the world cup and grand-slam series for qualifying for one of the six places in this event…
…and another wild-card will be given out by the organizer, which also in the future opens the door for Danailov (as chess event organizer !) to get his favourite player into the candidates matches at any time…
ISN’T THAT COMPLETELY UNFAIR !!!!
YES IT IS !!!
…and that’s why Carlsen and Adams correctly turned their back onto these Danailov-Mafiioso arrangements.
Well done!