Ilyumzhinov FIDE president is a criminal
INTERVIEW, From our reporter Rob Rt Misset
published on October 13, 2008 02:45,
updated on October 14, 2008 22:19
Translation by Google (The translation is undoubtedly bad but I am sure you can get the drift)
ARNHEM – With the reunification match between Kramnik and Anand is the chaos in the chess yet to resume, says the 56-year-old grandmaster. It is not very credible that the numbers 5 and 6 at the world championship play.
Fifteen years after Garry Kasparov broke with FIDE world chess federation will find the starting Tuesday in Bonn Reunification match between Vladimir Kramnik and current FIDE champion Viswanathan Anand. Again a legitimate match for the world ‘, says Jan Timman, in 1993 the alternative-duel for the FIDE world title from Anatoly Karpov lost.
But this duel does not guarantee that the World Cup cycle back to normal and continued problems in the chess sport are resolved. It is a disadvantage that Anand and Kramnik with the numbers 5 and 6 of the FIDE world rankings to play. It undermines the credibility of this match. I also find it strange that she prizes of a half million parts, which is very unusual for a World Cup match.
With the revolution of Kasparov, who in 1993 a new organization (PCA) up to his world title against Briton Nigel Short to defend all the misery began, said the 56-year-old Timman.
In 1989 we had with the Grand Masters Association is an excellent agreement with the FIDE. It was a players union with prestige, who is also the existence of the world chess federation official.
Kasparov FIDE just wanted to blow up, but his behavior was very inconsistent. He was a projectile caused. The one time he looked closer to the then FIDE President Campomanes, then he claimed opposition. Very basically, it was not. Kasparov now also allow those outside the Short match with FIDE to have been a false choice. The schism in the chess also led to a procession of sometimes minor masters, which differs from the FIDE world champion could mention.
Timman, in a cafe in his hometown Arnhem: Ponomariov was still a great talent. But Khalifman became world champion in a knock-out tournament, where the luck factor played a major role. He is now even outside the tophonderd cases.
Khazimdzjanov also won the world title after knock-out matches. In ancient Rome they were called emperors soldiers.
Timman just benefited from the division. In 1990, the Dutch chess icon in the final of the then matches candidates lost no chance of Karpov. Three years later invited the FIDE him again against the Russian former world champion to play for the FIDE title vacant. It was Timman accused that he borrowed for a cheap play, Kasparov was the true champion. Timman: I felt uncomfortable with me there. My main motive was to take revenge for my defeat against Karpov in 1990. Everyone knew of course that there is no alternative to the real world played.
Smilingly: Except Karpov then, he thought it was very pleasant to listen to his old are restored. All of that status, he also true in 1994 with great force majeure by the top toernooi to win in Linares.
The accusation that the Englishman Short Timman properly earned the rebellion of Kasparov, took him deep. The Dutch media were negative, that it was not simply a part of the duel with Karpov in the Netherlands to organize. I’ve never understood this criticism. I think nothing could be criticized?
The dictatorial regime of Russian President Ilyumzhinov FIDE, the chess sport, according to Timman further backward cast. In 1996, Ilyumzhinov is ridiculous by the World Cup match in Baghdad want to organize. As a result, the FIDE lost not only a major sponsor, but also its credibility.
Timman would never want to cooperate with Ilyumzhinov. In 1997 he wanted to talk to me about the future of chess. I soon noticed that it was a pointless meeting. Ilyumzhinov is not a man who idea? N others take over.
Timman in 2000 wrote a critical article in New in Chess, with the headline: The FIDE is bankrupt. Ilyumzhinov was furious. But there is nothing changed since 2000.
From the street poor, Russian republic Kalmykia part Ilyumzhinov as governor had already made a one-man business. Timman: In chess olympiad in the Kalmykia in 1998, the Russian Larissa Joedina activist killed under shadowy circumstances. The clan around Ilyumzhinov was involved. He is also responsible for a political assassination. We are talking about a criminal, who is not FIDE president would be.
For the 2006 Olympics in Turin lost in the Dutch businessman Bessel Kok, friend and former sponsor of Timman, the election for the presidency of FIDE Ilyumzhinov. It was shocking to see that Ilyumzhinov on a large scale had bought votes, Timman says.
Apparently he was not sure of his case. I had it included. It was brave of Bessel Kok to fight among themselves. But it’s not easy Ilyumzhinov of the network to break.
Now Kok is working with its Global Chess together with FIDE, but in a position that is unworthy of him. His Grand Prix Circuit, is not a great success. That tournament cycle fog allure, because too few top players going on with it.
You notes of everything that Ilyumzhinov prefer the reins himself in the hands hold. Cook does not have the power to the FIDE actually reorganize. It is noble that he remains committed to chess. But Cook Ilyumzhinov used only damaged the image of the FIDE to shine.
Timman had been indirectly involved in a coup against Iljoemzjinov. When I do that story in 2000 about the FIDE wrote, there were initiatives for an alternative chess federation. The American grandmaster Yasser Seirawan was very active in the United States. It was a major setback that he was not supported by the American federation. This made the creation of a new association almost impossible.
For Bessel Kok in 2006 for election as FIDE president said, I still with his lawyer Erik Keizer about the creation of intense interest. Emperor felt that the FIDE from the inside had to be reformed, but that is unfortunately not succeeded. The world chess federation is still not democratic progressive.
Nobody knows how soon also go to the World Cup cycle. Timman:
• The first new world champion plays against the winner of the duel between Topalov and Kamsky, who last year won the World Cup. For example, the World Cup cycle confusing. Those candidates matches of the past were so bad, then there was a clear pyramid to the World Cup match.
Timman is also concerned that the new world champion figure will be not binding. You can say a lot of Kasparov, but he had a tremendous charisma. With world champion Kramnik as the Russian Federation are powerful position in the FIDE reserve. Anand never occurs in the foreground. A world champion should be sports promoter. But by his lack of decisiveness nothing will change in the FIDE.
It is waiting for a young sky bestormer as world champion is Magnus Carlsen, Timman says. I am sure that he chess will give a positive impetus.
A Dutch grandmaster as challenger of the world sees Timman not quickly get up.
• The Max Euwe Center wants an English training Magnus Carlsen. The chance daaarop is not very big. Carlsen of Norway came from nowhere, his breakthrough has a magical character.
The current generation of leading an anonymous existence, finds Timman. It’s nice that Jan Werle the tournament in Liverpool has won. But otherwise I see no great performance from the Dutch. They do not speak to the imagination. Smeets and Stellwagen are intelligent, nice guys. But they do not have the look of a Hein Donner.
And Loek of Wély is understandably bad, you can not expect much from him. I find it remarkable that he is making such poor results. At his age I was at the top.
Here is the Dutch article.
Translation makes tihs article difficult to read , though timmans ideas are understood . I agree in a way that Kaspy was a very dynamic champion !
Please avoid using machine translation in your blog!
Just a word of advice from a professional translator…
Aw, come on! You used Babylon?
Hahahahahahaha. Amateurism. Disgusting on how you pick on your fellow GMs.
Move over Bill Murray. Jan Timman is lining up for the sequel to “Lost in Translation.”
[Pan across the roof-lines of a series of 3 storey houses alongside a canal in Delft. Zoom in to an elderly couple sitting at a chessboard outside a cafe at the square.]
The chess player reminisces about the way things should be. The older he gets the better he was, and the better things were.
Lousy translation
really bad translation..i would delete this article if i were you
koen
(holland)
Susan,
Please delete this article, or get it correctly translated.
I find it quite sad that it was put up at all. Not up to the usual high standards of this blog.
I was lucky to read the article in dutch. Bessel Kok was translated to Bessel Cook, very funny.
Jan Timman (John Timman ?)hits the nail on its head. Jan is always right, he is of a dying generation chessplayers.They were not only interested in chess, but also in literature,arts, music etc etc. Chesplayers nowadays are computernerds.
Despite the translation, one thing is for sure:
Timman has no authority to speak about the World Championship: when he says it’s strange that No 5 and 6 play for the championship he just should think again: Kramnik and Anand where No1 and No2 at the start of this year; as they then couldn’t show off their best lines in tournaments, they obviously where at a disadvantage and lost some points because of this (but just a few!; the first 5 players were within the blink of an eye… )
Anand is back to No 1 now, so what’s the talk about anyway…
BTW, Timman should feel ashamed that he accepted the offer to play for the FIDE World Championship in 1993 against Karpov after both, Karpov and He himself were rightfully defeated by Short and obviously had both be eliminated from the quest for the world crowne.
IMO, Timman is a hypocrite…
We need a translation of the computer translation!
This comments are out of place!
Anand is a great World Champion and it looks to me that racism from Europe is behind this and other comments that doesn´t recongnize the greatness of Anand.
By the way I am white and 6´2″.
It’s funny how people (mostly people who never achieved anything in them) claim that FIDE knockouts were just a lotery.
If thats true, the Anand has to be one of the luckiest person on the planet since in 3 atempts he won “the lotery” twice (in 1997 and 2000) and came into the semi-finals (in 2002).
I don’t know if a person can be that lucky. There has to something else too. I don’t know, something like world-class maybe?
P.S.: If it was ridiculous and just a lotery, then why did Timman participate (and lost miserably)? Was he feeling lucky???
The translation sucks, but that’s ok since it sounds like Timman must have been s***faced.