But loo and blue chequered the mind game
B Shrikant
Mumbai, December 24, 2006

Chess could not have produced a bigger farce than what happened at the World Championship Unification match between Vladimir Kramnik and Veselin Topalov.

And that too, in the backyard of FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in Elista, the capital of Kalmykia which he rules with an iron fist. If only the FIDE boss had used the same iron fist in dealing with the ‘toiletgate’, chess would have not seen the bizarre incidents that happened in Elista.

As a rule, the classical world championship finals generate lot of heat and controversy because of the bloated egos of the players involved.

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