FIDE announces the termination of negotiations with the candidate organiser of the World Chess Championship match Kasimdzhanov-Kasparov, originally sheduled for January 2005 in Dubai. The organiser from Dubai did not supply FIDE with the required financial guarantees within the deadline set by the FIDE President.
The Kasimdzhanov-Kasparov match is now scheduled to be organised in spring 2005 and FIDE has already entered discussions with other candidate organisers and sponsors. Further information on the progress of these discussions will be officially announced until the end of this year.
Now let me see if I've got this straight. The January 2005 match in Dubai was just a figment of the FIDE President's imagination (as Kasparov suggested in his letter to the FIDE Congress), but this newly announced spring 2005 match with super-duper-secret unmentionable sponsors is legitimate. And we're supposed to believe this because...??? I can live with an idiot running things, and I can live with a crook running things . . . but a crooked idiot is too much to take. FIDE is turning professional chess into a bad joke. Can you imagine if Wimbledon or the Masters did not take place on schedule?
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I did not RFTA, but didnt FIDE place a 1M bond or in escrow (To guarentee Gerry's appearence) for the January match in Dubai? If so, I wonder what happens to that money.
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