World’s Best Chess Player Suspected of Immoral Ties With a computer The chess world has been rocked by a scandal. Kommersant has learned that the Association of Chess Professionals is about to begin an investigation of suspicions that former...
Accusations, refutations, feedback on ChessBase
Our friends from ChessBase just published a follow up article about the Nigel Short accusation against Topalov on DNA Sport. ChessBase also published a number of comments from their readers regarding their decision to publish the interview with GM...
A difficult question about right or wrong
Should a fellow GM OPENLY call out for a cheating investigation against another GM without any personal proof or direct knowledge of the situation or should this be done through proper and official channels?Short pushes for cheating inquiryLeonard BardenThursday...
An Interview with Judit about Topalov and cheating
I orinally posted this back in November 2005. Judit Polgar’s take on the cheating allegation. She is definitely not one who supported Topalov in Elista. Below is the opinion of my sister Judit about the cheating allegation against the...
The Kramnik – Topalov debate
There have been THOUSANDS of posts about Kramnik, Topalov and accusations of cheating against both players. It seems that the fans of Kramnik firmly believe that Topalov cheated and the fans of Topalov firmly believe that Kramnik cheated. However,...
A dividing jury
Experts divided over cheating allegation against TopalovLeonard BardenMonday January 29, 2007The Guardian A new cheating allegation against Veselin Topalov was made at the weekend just as the world No1-ranked grandmaster started his grudge game against the world champion, Vladimir...
FIDE said NO MATCH unless Kramnik wants it
FIDE Press Release on Topalov-Kramnik MatchPRESS RELEASE, 28 January 2007 The FIDE Presidential Board, meeting 27-28 January 2007 in Antalya, Turkey, issued the following statement : FIDE received a bank guarantee dated January 19th 2007, on behalf of GM...
A final look back at 2007 Corus
There is no tie-break at Corus. Therefore, 3 players tie for 1st in group A. 1-3. Topalov, Aronian and Radjabov 8.5 (+4)4. Kramnik 8 (+3) 5. Anand 7.5 (+2) 6. Svidler 7 (+1) 7-8. Navara, Karjakin 6.5 (=) 9....
Toilet war in 13 acts
Picture and full story on chessbase.com Bulgarian journalist Zhivko Ginchec just came out with 20,000 copies of the book about the Elista match between Kramnik and Topalov. The title of the book is “Toilet War”. In the mean time,...
Corus Final Round LIVE Blogging
Radjabov, T – Topalov, V [E08]Corus 2007, 28.01.2007 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 Bb4+ 5.Bd2 Be7 6.Bg2 0–0 7.0–0 c6 8.Bf4 Nbd7 9.Qc2 a5 10.Rd1 (We are still in theories so far. Black now has 3 main...