Alexei Shirov: Sperrt die FIDE

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02.12.2008 – Angesichts der jüngsten Entwicklungen in der FIDE müssten viele vergangene Schachweltmeister in ihren Gräbern rotieren, meint Alexei Shirov. "Es ist die Pflicht der lebenden Schachspieler sich nun zu Wort zu melden". Angeblich soll Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in Bezug auf den bei der Schacholympiade nicht zum Dopingtest erschienenen Vassily Ivanchuk erklärt haben, der Betroffene müssen den Regeln entsprechend hart bestraft werden. Shirov findet es unerhört, dass ein Spieler der absoluten Topklasse, der seit 20 Jahren zur Weltspitze gehört und nach einer wichtigen verlorenen Partie zu sich selbst finden wollte, von jemanden zur Regeleinhaltung gemahnt wird, der selber niemals Regeln einhält - so wenig, wie es jetzt bei der Änderung des WM-Zyklus geschehen ist. Wenn die FIDE und Ilyumzhinov nicht endlich aufhören, das Schach zu zerstören, müssen andere sie daran hindern, erklärt Alexi Shirov in seinem zurecht emotionalen Offenen Brief. Let's ban FIDE...

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Let's ban the FIDE

I don’t know how many times I have said to myself that it makes no sense at all to keep getting involved in chess politics and that I should just concentrate on my work etc. But the recent FIDE “developments” possibly made many late great champions turn in their graves. That means the living chess players should speak out.

According to the Russian totally non-free chess journalist Yuri Vasiliev (fortunaltely not the most reliable one whom we know for bringing up the ghost of Alexander Chernenko) Ilyumzhinov has already stated that Vasily Ivanchuk might get severely sanctioned for the doping test refusal after his game against Gata Kamsky.

Can we believe such news? A player who has been in the very top for more than twenty years since winning New York Open in the beginning of 1988, an absolute record from currently active players, gets banned simply because he wanted to calm down after a lost game? Boris Spassky has already given his opinion about the situation but it’s not published anywhere. Suddenly Ilyumzhinov wants to say that the rules are the rules.

But the rules don’t seem legal to me unfortunately.  IOC has never guaranteed that chess would become the Olympic sport, so the FIDE policy in licking their posterior is at least questionable. After the success of Intellectual games festival in Beijing it’s time to STOP trying to get into the Olympic movement. I personally feel guilty for participating in the Olympic exhibition in Sydney 2000 but at least then it seemed that the chessplayers were going to be welcome with open heart. As it hasn’t happened we have our way and we cannot lose our best representatives like this.

If FIDE and Ilyumzhinov don’t stop destroying our intellectual sport something should be done. At least step by step. I hope Mr. Hans-Arild Runde would not mind to keep calculating Ivanchuk’s results, so any organizers who still respect our game should deal with him and no longer give the official rating reports to FIDE. In fact the rating reports are generated automatically nowadays but somebody should still control that they are not changed by cancelling results.

The second part of this press-release will include some of my thoughts about the latest changes (nothing unusual, of course) in the World Championship system. Of course, with Ivanchuk ban the whole system loses its sense but there is still a chance that his case will be resolved. In fact I don’t think the idea of the Candidates tournament is as negative as some people think, adding the second place in the Grand Prix and the World Cup is a nice compensation for changing the format as long as the tournament is attractive for players and chess lovers. But giving the direct seed to the loser of Topalov-Kamsky match seems totally senseless as long as the player can prove his strength in the next World Cup or qualify by rating. He should be replaced by the second highest rated player in my opinion.  Unfortunately this opinion cannot even theoretically be supported by the ACP board as one of their leading forces Emil Sutovsky is the manager of Kamsky and the most of the rest are his cronies!

Ok, time to stop writing. Let others express their opinions on this FIDE news.

Alexei Shirov

Riga, 02.12.2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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