Author: Peter Berger
Date: 11:09:57 12/27/00
Quote from the rules to determine the next FIDE worldchampion at http://www.fide.com/release/main.cgi?body=1&id=67 : 9. The best 8 chess players from worldwide Internet must be select during the period of time announced by FIDE COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL LTD. In this period all Internet users through the world are welcome to play on the official FIDE Web Site www.fide.com between each other. Everyone who joint competition on the Internet (and do not have already FIDE rating) will receive 1600 points FIDE rating for start. At the end of the period of this competition 128 players will be select, who then will play in knocked out Internet tournament to find the 8 finalists who will be invite to play live in the next World Chess Championship. 10. The World Chess Championship will start every year on the 25th of November and will be knocked out tournament among 128 chess players (8 from the Internet among them), where all of them will start from the first round to straggle for the prize fund of USD$ 3.000.000. Amazing, isn't it ? pete
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