Author: Thomas Logan
Date: 05:32:49 11/18/05
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On November 18, 2005 at 08:28:59, Thomas Logan wrote: >Two days ago I was informed by Mr Danailov that the Kramnik side rejected the >idea of holding the match within FIDE's authority and the proposal for a meeting >of all sides was rejected as well. > >FIDE's Deputy President Georgios Makropoulos > >In his statement Mr Makropoulus claims that the World Chess Champion Vladimir >Kramnik was not prepared to play a world championship match under the auspices >of FIDE. That is false. The Kramnik side has never rejected a world championship >match against Mr Topalov under FIDE auspices. > >Vladimir Kramnik's manager Carsten Hensel > >Who are you going to believe Kramnik's manager, Topalov's manager or Fide deputy >president ? > >Tom Oh and Mr Danailov statement We proposed to UEP the match to be an official one under the auspices of FIDE. According to the new rules of FIDE, due to be published very soon, each grandmaster with Elo of over 2700 can officially invite the World Champion to a match for the title if he provides an appropriate prize fund and pays a 20% charge to FIDE as designated by law. Of course, our proposal to the organizer UEP was rejected. Tom
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