FIDE bows to Anand and pressure
Press Trust of India
NEW DELHI, April 1: After initially depriving Viswanathan Anand of the top position in its latest ranking list, the International Chess Federation (Fide) today bowed to widespread pressure and crowned the Indian as the world no. 1.
Fide rating committee chairman Mr Casto Abundo confirmed Anand as the game’s new no. 1.
“Congratulations to Anand and the All India Chess Federation. Pleased to inform you that we have rated Linares event today and Anand is world no 1,” Mr Abundo said in his message from Elista, Russia.
The Indian was to become the world no. 1 on Fide charts for the first time in his career after he won the Morelia-Linares tournament in Spain last month. But the Fide list showed Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria still on the top, 13 points ahead of Anand.
The game’s world governing body said that the Morelia-Linares tournament was not taken into consideration while updating the rankings since it concluded on 10 March, outside the cut-off date of 28 February. But following the AICF’s strong protests and widespread criticism, Fide agreed to correct the list.
Here is the full article.
Aha, so the previous ratings is april fool listing 🙂 LOL.
Check out this link.
http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=5&theme=&usrsess=1&id=151682
The web-page points out
AICF treasurer Mr Bharat Singh Chauhan said the Asian Cities Chess Championship in Tehran, which was held from 1-9 March, was also included in the tournaments used to calculate the April 2007 list. There were also some other events which spilled into March but were used in the calculations. “This shows their (Fide’s) double standard,” Mr Chauhan said.
These people think they are the king.
Including or excluding games is a political process. The point is that, based upon all the games played up to now, Anand’s rating is the highest.
On the other hand, if you exclude all games played on Fridays, isn’t Aronian number one ? Friday games should be excluded as this is a religious holiday in some parts of the world …
If you don’t accept that argument, I’ll think up another one.
FIDE bowed to pressure from India based on the huge difference between sizes of population – 1.1 bil against 7.3 mil. Bad judgement as expected from FIDE.
“FIDE bowed to pressure from India based on the huge difference between sizes of population – 1.1 bil against 7.3 mil. Bad judgement as expected from FIDE.”
LOL. Bad judgment to rate a tournament the same way they have every year for the last 5 years. What a dumb thing to say. The only bad judgment was not doing it in the first place.
If there is a landmine out there it is 10-1 that FIDE will step on it. Not a shred of situational awareness exists in that organization!
a moronic headline I’m afraid. It is not clear at all the Indian Chess Federation’s protest had anything to do with the correction by FIDE. If at all, the barrage of posts on chessninja.com and Chessbase’s chamipioning Anand’s cause had more to do with FIDe’s reversal. The most persuasive arguments in these protests came from Mig, Freidel of Chessbase, Ulf Hammarstrom (a swede), Stefan Fischl (Austrian), Russianbear (Russian) etc. all not from India.
I think I need to say this since nobody else has. This is NOT the first time he is at the top. He was, last year, at 2783, along with Topalov the JOINT number 1. It is however the first time he is SOLE number one.
FIDE is a racist governing body.
I am leaning to say that they do not want to include Anand at first because historically chess was dominated by white european.
“FIDE is a racist governing body.
I am leaning to say that they do not want to include Anand at first because historically chess was dominated by white european.”
That’s a serious charge. Do you have any evidence? Or are you the kind who doesn’t need evidence?