I am sending 10 difficult questions to Mr. Bessel Kok, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and their teams about their campaigns. The questions range from their backgrounds, qualifications, accomplishments, missions, plans, goals, etc., for the chess world. Once I receive their responses, I will post them here first. Their answers will also be published in various places with about 10 million monthly readers. If you have a chance to ask one question and one question only to either of these candidates, what will it be?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Why the World Youth Championship 2006 was given to Georgia: the country with a very high crime rate, and unstable political situation?
No one attacks chess players anywhere.
What could be a difficult question about their background, qualifications, plans, goals, etc? All of these have been answered already on the campaign sites!? My question would be: How many jobs will be open for new labor, after you have won?
Will we change “GENS UNA SUMUS” phrase, as it doesn’t really fit any more? We are all, but a family.
Georgia ruled the women’s chess scene. Until the Polgar sisters came.
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Please ask Mr. Ilyumzhinov and Mr. Kok if they plan to buy votes, with nice presents for example.
Ask which one will give your title back 😛
Ask Ilyumzhinov why it took him 11 years to try to unify the World Title and why he announced this Topalov Kramnik match just weeks before the election!?
TFK
I would like to ask Kirsan what happened to commercial sponsorship in chess over the last 11 years, and does he think its ok for the game to be bankrolled by one man? A man who seems to drive serious sponsorship away from the game, rather than attract it.
Susan:
Did you read the article about Ilyumzhinov in this week’s New Yorker? Unflattering is putting it mildly. After reading that article, it is hard for me to believe that anyone would think he would be good for chess.
nyc chess mom
nyc chess mom,
No, I did not see it. Do you have a link for it?
Thank you!
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
Looks like they want people to buy the printed magazine to get the full story, but there are excerpts at:
http://www.newyorker.com/press
or
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/press/060424pr_press_releases
Thank you for the info.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
Blogger is down since late yesterday. Therefore, I could not update my blog last night. I will update it as soon as it is back up.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar
http://www.PolgarChess.com
Ok, Ok, I’ve got it. I would ask how the chess community can help fight terrorism, like building a terrorism fighting chess robot or training a legion of monkeys to throw chess pieces at terrorist or creating a giant chess maze in which to keep prisoners. Then I’d ask them to contrast their answers with what they think Go players could do.
I would like to know (as well as who is funding the match between Topalov & Kramnik, and if it will happen should Kirsan be defeated), what the candidates will do over the next four years, and what vision they have for chess and FIDE. How will they restore its authority?
Mr. Illyuckoff, will that be paper or plastic?
A simple question :
“Have you ever think to create a better FIDE with the help of your opponent ?”
I like Dudule ‘s question.
I didn’t like the nasty political tone of Bessel’s press release.
Are either of these candidates interested in chess?
I want to know if Bessel Kok had to put up $1 milllion in order to run as president.
I want to know who is putting up the million dollar prize fund for the Topalov Kramnik Match and if the match and money is assured no matter who wins the election.
I want to know what is the official Fide position about the status of the winner of the Topalov Kramnik Match. Will the winner be declared the one and only one official World Champion without reservation.
If the 2007 WC Tournament is suppose to represent the 8 best chess players then it seems to me that the loser of the T-K Match should be invited even if it makes the WC have 9 players. What is your position on this issue.
I just want to second all Tommy’s questions — good ones, and I would like to know the answers too.
“Did you read the article about Ilyumzhinov in this week’s New Yorker? Unflattering is putting it mildly. After reading that article, it is hard for me to believe that anyone would think he would be good for chess. nyc chess mom”
You believe all what you read in the media? I don’t. I believe only in checkmate, but it never happens, because the oppoenent always resigns.
My questions are: Does the forthcoming reunification match mean that Kirsan &/or FIDE accept what everyone in the chess world knows: that Anatoly Karpov, Alexander Khalifman, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov and
Rustam Kasimdzhanov were merely paper Champions, their titles of World Champion created as nothing more than a bad joke, by an out-of-date, corrupt, inefficient and blundering organisation?
Question for Kok: can the World Championship ever be made as convincing as it used to be – ie when theoretically anyone could qualify for the Interzonals, and then the Candidate Matches, and then the Final, where they can win the crown – and thus without contention prove themselves Champion of the World?
I’d ask why the FIDE website is so darn covered with animations and uses all the applets and shockwave flash web stuff that it doesn’t even load on my computer. How are people in poorer countries supposed to use the FIDE website if an American with a new computer can’t use it.