All players confirm participation for Candidates Matches 2011
Grischuk substitutes Carlsen as expected
A few days ago Mamedyarov and Radjabov signed their contracts for the Candidates matches 2011 in Kazan. Now all players have confirmed their participation.
As expected, GM Magnus Carlsen has informed FIDE that he will not participate and was therefore replaced by GM Alexander Grischuk as per regulations.
Here is the final list of players. Pairings remain as Chessdom.com announced them a month ago
1. Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria, runner up of the previous World Championship)
2. Vladimir Kramnik (Russia, qualified by rating)
3. Levon Aronian (Armenia, winner of the FIDE Grand-Prix 2008-2009)
4. Boris Gelfand (Israel, winner of the FIDE World Cup 2009)
5. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan, wild card)
6. Alexander Grischuk (Russia, qualification from the FIDE Grand-Prix)
7. Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan, qualification from the FIDE Grand-Prix)
8. Gata Kamsky (USA, runner up of the Challengers Match 2009).
Carlsen would have won it.
‘Carlsen would have won it’. !!!
If pigs could fly! You may wish it, but Carlsen ducked the candidates precisely because he had no confidence of winning it! All the others have the guts and desire to have a go at Anand. Carlsen has a minus 2 score vs Anand in Classical chess this year,so mentally he has already counted himself out. He is young ,so perhaps some other time,but I’m not so sure.
he is playing the lebron carlsen act.
he thinks he should get what he wants thinking he is the world champion already.
i like magnus but he and his dad screwed themselves up by not playing.
The article says: “As expected, GM Magnus Carlsen has informed FIDE that he will not participate and was therefore replaced by GM Alexander Grischuk as per regulations. “.
BIG PROBLEM with this statement? The FIDE regulations, according to the manager of Topalov, stipulated that if a candidate does not participate, his opponent should go directly to the next stage, not play a match with a replacement like it is the case of Grischuk who took the place of Carlsen when in fact Radjabov should have gone directly to the next stage WITHOUT having to play against a replacement!!!!!
To change the current rules to accommodate another Russian chess player is basically illegal and completely in violation of the current regulations for this current run for the title!!!