Ponomariov is leading Dortmund. Caruana is leading Biel. The SPICE Cup A group is finalized with two 2700+ players (Almasi and Onischuk). The Russian Chess Federation just made two very controversial proposals.
It’s Saturday Open Forum. The forum is yours. What would you like to discuss?
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Since when does Kosteniuk give a damn about women’s chess or other women players?
Anyone who has the arrogance to self proclaim to be a chess queen while insulting other great women players such as Chiburdanidze, Gaprindashvilil, Xie Jun, Judit Polgar and Zsuzsa Polgar has to be self delusional.
This is also the same Kosteniuk who claims to be a GM at age 14 (a total lie) and she also consider her mickey mouse disneyland and chess 960 tiger titles to be real legit world championship titles.
This is the same Kosteniuk who pretended to be a real American to milk money from the USCF and now she moves on to be a real Swiss.
Here is Anand’s challenge to world no. 1 status
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/chess/My-target-is-to-regain-world-number-one-status-Anand/articleshow/6211329.cms
As I said in another post, leave Kosteniuk alone. She has no obligation to help other women players. Her job is to look out for herself. I see nothing wrong with her wanting a better deal for herself, no matter how unfair or outrageous it is. If FIDE is willing to give her 9 pawns instead of 8, good for her.
Susan the U.S. havent had a World Champion since they took it from Fischer, how long does it take to develop , does naka really have the stuff or is it all smoke and mirror?
I don’t see the problem with RCF asking for special conditions. This ain’t the first and it won’t be the last time they do it. Kramnik and Kosteniuk support Dvorkovich so it’s simply a reward for them. Power to Russian chess.