Kamsky, Topalov agree to play world chess semifinal in Sofia
www.chinaview.cn 2008-11-19 08:36:41
SOFIA, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) — After six-hour talks in Dresden, a principled agreement was reached Tuesday for the semifinal for the world chess title between Bulgaria’s Vesselin Topalov and Gata Kamsky of the United States to be played in Sofia between Feb. 16 and 28, 2009, local BTA reported.
Bulgaria was represented at the talks by the President of the National Chess Federation Stefan Sergiev and Topalov’s manager Silvio Danailov. Bulgaria initially offered to schedule the match for Feb. 3-15 but on Kamsky’s request it will start on Feb. 16.
Asked about the financial details of the semifinal, Topalov’s spokesman Zhivko Ginchev said that there is no problem since Bulgaria supports the match.
The World Chess Federation (FIDE) requires the host of the Topalov-Kamsky match to provide a purse of 250,000 U.S. dollars and pay an additional 50,000 dollars to FIDE.
Editor: Jiang Yuxia
Some Important Matches which were agreed and did not take place
Fischer-Karpov 1975
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In January, 1975, the Philippines
were offering $5 million for Fischer to play Karpov in the Philippines.
Fide refused Fischer’s 9-9 rule.Bobby Fischer forfeited his title as world chess champion to Anatoly Karpov without playing a single chess game since winning the world championship.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?tid=54487
Kasparov-Shirov 1999
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Kasparov tried to organise another World Championship match, under yet another organisation, the World Chess Association (WCA) with Linares organiser Rentero. Alexei Shirov and Vladimir Kramnik played a candidates match to decide the challenger, which Shirov won in a surprising upset. The WCA collapsed, however, when Rentero admitted that the funds required and promised had never materialised
http://www.chessmaniac.com/2006/02/playing-chess-with-garry-k_113991868811803277.php
Kasparov-Anand 1999
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The proposed match which led to Anand staying away from the official FIDE World Championships, that concluded last month in Las Vegas,The match, officially announced in July after both Anand and Kasparov signed up with the promoters, has not been able to attract a sponsor who could put up three million dollars.
http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19990915/isp15030.html
Kasparov vs Ponomariov 2003
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The match between Garry Kasparov and Ruslan Ponomariov is to take place from June 19 to July 7 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This was announced in a news conference by FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov in Moscow yesterday.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=806
Kasparov-Kasimdzhanov 2004
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The World Championship Match between World Champion Rustam Kasimdzhanov of Uzbekistan and the world`s highest rated player, Garry Kasparov of Russia shall be held 7th to 24th January 2005 in Dubai. This was announced by FIDE President H.E. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1952
Topalov–Radjabov 2006
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The award fund is $1.5 million (Sofia, May 15, 2006) The manager of the World Champion Veselin Topalov – Silvio Danailov and the Minister of Sport of Azerbaijan Azad Rahimov agreed yesterday on a match for the world title to be held between Topalov and the Azerbaijanian Teimour Radjabov
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3106
Topalov-Kamsky 2008
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After a great deal of international bickering the matter is now settled: the special Challengers Match between Gata Kamsky and Veselin Topalov will take place between November 26th and December 14th 2008 in Lvov, Ukraine. This has just been announced by FIDE, with President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4671
will history repeat itself lets wait till february 2009 to see wether the Topalov-Kamsky match really takes place