Author: Michael Vox
Date: 14:54:51 04/04/02
http://www.users.bigpond.com/rebpab/ The ambitious Grand Prix event, featuring a host of very strong players and some internet qualifiers, is finally under way in Dubai in the Middle East. Players include Ponomariov, Ivanchuk, Anand, Svidler, Bareev, Lautier, Shirov, Morozevich, Nikolic, Topalov, Ye, Dreev, Azmaiparashvili, Ehlvest, Leko, Van Wely, Khalifman, Karpov, Grishuk, Acs, Short, Radjabov, Georgiev, Bacrot, and Zhu Chen. In addition, there are some wild cards and local invitees: Al-Modiahki, Belkhodja, Taleb, Jasim and Othman. And the highly-controversial Internet qualification scheme has also produced two participants: Sergey Karjakin of Ukraine and Maxim Novik of Russia. They have just triumphed over Chepukaitis and Zeliakov in an offline encounter at Dubai Chess Center. The internet qualification event was marred by allegations of rampant cheating through the use of computer programs. Only four players were thrown out of the tournament, but there were claims that the cheating was much more widespread than this. (And some of the evicted players maintain their innocence to this day). The time control is 25 minutes for each player to complete the game, plus 10 additional seconds for each move, starting from move 1.
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