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Controversy Brewing Over World Championship Chess Match
05 May
Posted by David Miller as Classic Board Games
The 2013 World Championship Chess match between Viswanathan Anand (current champion) and Magnus Carlsen (number one ranked player) is scheduled for November of this year and was expected to take place in Chennai, India. It seems, though, that the challenger and his supporters are not happy with the venue. Anand is a native of India and Carlsen, from Norway, may be concerned about playing in the hot climate and on his opponent’s home turf.
On Friday, the Norwegian Chess Federation filed a formal complaint with FIDE over the selection of Chennai, citing the lack of a competitive bid process. Chennai’s selection, though, may have been a holdover from last year’s selection.
Offering up Paris as an alternative location, the French Chess Federation, also on Friday, submitted an unsolicited bid with a €2.65 million prize fund, compared to Chennai’s €1.94 million.
[via ChessBase]
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Oooh. Thanks for posting these news stories. It’s surprising how much juicy controversy there is in the world of pro chess. Reminds me a little of the accusations of Olympic coordinators being bribed while they select host cities.
That’s ridiculous to say they cannot play in Chennai because its weather is hot. It is not that they are going to be seated at the middle of nowhere with no provision for air-conditioning. Wherever they play, that place is going to be centrally air-conditioned, and wherever they travel they are going to be provided with air-conditioned chauffeur driven cars, and wherever they are housed that would also be suitably air-conditioned. I think they should invent some other reason than this. For example they would not like the Champion to have favourable home-turf environment etc. However, having said that, I expect Magnus Carlsen to be a sportive Challenger. We from India wish him well too. I would go to the extent of wishing him good luck 51-49 in his favour because of his age. He is just around 22 and he compares favourably with our own children. With so much of non-partisan good wishes coming his way, I earnestly plead with him to let better sense prevail.
having the match in Paris might result in higher prize money for the 2 players, but having in chennai will ensure better coverage of the sport in India.