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03-21-2010, 06:10 AM
A controversy has erupted ahead of the World Chess Title match in Sofia setting against each other Bulgaria’s Veselin Topalov and India’s Viswanathan Anand.
The scandal resulted from an interview of Topalov’s manager, Silvio Danailov, for Europe Echecs, in which Danailov reveals that Anand has refused to play the World Chess Title match in Bulgaria according to the “Sofia rules” but will be forced to comply with them anyway because the Bulgarian chess master will be sticking to them.
The “Sofia Rules” of chess matches have been introduced by the Mtel Masters tournament in Bulgaria’s Sofia. According to them, the players do not have the right to offer draws and to talk to one another during the game, thus avoiding the possibility of having games end in negotiated draws after just a few moves.
Danailov, Topalov’s Bulgarian manager, has revealed that the international chess federation FIDE has asked Anand to play the Sofia World Title Match according to the “Sofia Rules” but that Anand’s manager and wife, Aruna Anand, has rejected this proposal because of concerns over picking judges and appellate committee.
The chess face-off between current world champion Viswanathan Anand from India and Bulgaria’s chess master Veselin Topalov, who is currently number one in the FIDE world ranking (Anand is third) will start on April 21, 2010.
Topalov and Anand will play 12 games. In case they finish with a tie, they will hold a tiebreaker including 4 games of fast chess. For 140 years of chess championship there have been 19 World Title matches.
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The scandal resulted from an interview of Topalov’s manager, Silvio Danailov, for Europe Echecs, in which Danailov reveals that Anand has refused to play the World Chess Title match in Bulgaria according to the “Sofia rules” but will be forced to comply with them anyway because the Bulgarian chess master will be sticking to them.
The “Sofia Rules” of chess matches have been introduced by the Mtel Masters tournament in Bulgaria’s Sofia. According to them, the players do not have the right to offer draws and to talk to one another during the game, thus avoiding the possibility of having games end in negotiated draws after just a few moves.
Danailov, Topalov’s Bulgarian manager, has revealed that the international chess federation FIDE has asked Anand to play the Sofia World Title Match according to the “Sofia Rules” but that Anand’s manager and wife, Aruna Anand, has rejected this proposal because of concerns over picking judges and appellate committee.
The chess face-off between current world champion Viswanathan Anand from India and Bulgaria’s chess master Veselin Topalov, who is currently number one in the FIDE world ranking (Anand is third) will start on April 21, 2010.
Topalov and Anand will play 12 games. In case they finish with a tie, they will hold a tiebreaker including 4 games of fast chess. For 140 years of chess championship there have been 19 World Title matches.
More (http://novinite.com/view_news.php?id=114391)