Topalov Awarded with Silver Cup
Standart News
Bulgaria’s GM Veselin Topalov won the World Chess Challenger Match against U.S. GM Gata Kamsky and will now play a final match against current FIDE World Champion, V. Anand.
Topalov was awarded a beautiful silver cup and the match closing ceremony was attended by Bulgaria’s President Georgi Parvanov and Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev.
Also, each of the rivals received a reproduction of a painting by great Bulgarian artists Vladimir Dimitrov.
FIDE Deputy President Georgios Makropoulos praised the organizers of the match for their good work.
The event’s official website www.wccc2009.com was visited by two million people.
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27 February 2009 | 16:43 | FOCUS News Agency
| Veselin Topalov managed to win everything that can be won in chess: Georgios Makropoulos |
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Sofia. Veselin Topalov managed to win everything possible in chess. He deserves the opportunity to play in the World Chess Championship, FIDE Vice President Georgios Makropoulos said at the awarding ceremony, cited by Focus News Agency.
What Kamsky has achieved in his chess career is reaching the top and his match against Anatoly Karpov proves this. Makropoulos noted that Bulgarian Chess Federation succeeded in creating chess champions with an extremely small budget, and recommended that Bulgaria’s President and Prime Minister consider allotting a larger budget to the Federation. Bulgarian Chess Federation said it had initiated a petition for a central chess home, which would be sent to Sofia Mayor Boyko Borisov. |
I think this is completely unfair to Vladimir Kramnik. Kramnik rousted this guy in the match in Elista and now he gets another shot at Anand? How ridiculous!!! All this match should do is give Topalov another shot a playing Kramnik. And then Kramnik should play Anand after beating Topalov again. Afterall, Kramnik is the only guy to ever beat Kasparov in a chess match. Topalov and Anand’s records together could not beat Kasparov’s victories against either. Lets be fair here !!!
“I think this is completely unfair to Vladimir Kramnik”
you know what else is unfair to you? life. it made you an idiot. bummer
No.. you are the idiot.
Kramnik had to beat Topalov, then give up his title and play in Mexico City and then play a match with Anand – all Topalov had to do was beat Kamsky and he gets to play Anand again.
How simple is this? …duh
I like cheese.
Kramnik was trying to escape the rematch at all cost. Even FIDE changed their rules to make the rematch impossible. At the same time, they not allowed Topalov play in Mexico…
Drawnik fans are cry babies.
There is a very good interview with Mr. Topalov in a Bulgarian newspaper. He is quite displeased with his own play at the match on the contrary most people believed.
Thoughts on the French, he prefers to play the world champ title game outside Europe and quite other random thoughts.
I agree with the first poster!
Kramnik should play World Championship matches until he wins. Then the rules should be rewriten so that the reigning Champion has a 6-0 lead in a 12 game match. Of course the Champion keeps the title in case of a 6-6 tie.
Yes, this is how it should be done. Afterall it was Kramnik who defeated almighty Kasparov 8.5 years ago. This should be worth something.
Haha, very well put. Let’s not forget that as Kasparov put it, the match with him is the only one Kramnik has ever won, and only because Kasparov was not in perfect shape. Kramnik got a match with Anand for free, he lost, now he is N8 in the ratings, time for everyone to move on. We are waiting for a match between N1 and N2, can things be more logical than that?
Kramnik won the match against Topalov, actually both at regular time control and rapid playoffs (Topalov made it to the tiebreak only because of some offboard maneuvering …).
And, to my surprise, he is presently #4 on the live rating list … because Ivanchuk and Morozevich lost lots of ELO at the Corus tournament. Of course Kramnik didn’t get stronger by not playing (for private family reasons), it just shows how relative ELO snapshots are.
All this doesn’t mean that I agree with the first poster, but (here and elsewhere) several people bash Kramnik too quickly and too easily … .
Clearly Anand and Topalov are the best two players in the world (for now Anand is still world number 2 and world champion despite his recent bad tpurnament play. The world title counts for something.)
As for Elo, Anand and Topalov have dominated the rating list since Kasparov retired- one of them being the highest rated in every list. Once Kramnik tied in the list since Kasparov retired and that’s it. So what’s that?
Something like 6 times each for Topalov/Anand, and 1/2 a time for Kramnik. I am talking official lists. Through all the variation there are only 2 best players last few years, and Kramnik isn’t one of them. Elo afterall measures performance.