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    BAKU REMAINS WITHOUT CANDIDATE MATCHES 2011

    Aysor
    July 27 2010
    Armenia

    The candidate matches, a tournament, qualifying for the World
    Chess Championship 2011 will take place in Kazan, Russia, the FIDE
    presidential board announced from Norwegian town of Tromso.

    Despite the fact that Azerbaijan had already signed an agreement
    and had transferred 150 000 eur to FIDE, the tournament was moved
    to Kazan. It's worth mentioning that Armenia's Grand Master Levon
    Aronian said earlier that he wouldn't travel to Azerbaijan.

    Given the previous agreement with Baku, it has been decided to keep
    Azerbaijan's Grand Master Shakhriyar Mamedyarov as the nominated
    player. The candidates at Qualifying Tournament include Veselin
    Topalov (Bulgaria), Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia),
    Levon Aronian (Armenia), Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan), Boris Gelfand
    (Israel) and Gata Kamsky (USA).

    In case of a possible withdraw of ex World Champion Veselin Topalov,
    (the reasons were detailed in his open letter) FIDE's head Kirsan
    Ilyumkinov sad would send him a letter asking not to take hasty
    decisions. However, if Topalov doesn't change his mind, there will
    be a substitute player - GM Alexander Grischuk.




    From: A. Papazian
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