FIDE Regain Control of World Championship Match and Candidates Tournament

[Michael Farthing]

I'm not quoting, I'm characterising!

Then perhaps you should not have used quotation marks. It certainly looked as if it was intended to be a direct quotation.

[JustinHorton]

Or perhaps you could have strained yourself far enough to perceive the difference between parody and reality.

[JustinHorton]

if anyone is interested in asking the right questions.

Unlikely

Certainly Tarjei doesn't look like he's going to put in the effort.

[Kevin Thurlow]

"Or perhaps you could have strained yourself far enough to perceive the difference between parody and reality."

Reality? Here?

[Colin McGourty]

Have FIDE yet published the revised contract with Agon which was agreed at some point prior to last year's election and which Nigel Short complained, during the election compaign, of not having had sight of?

Malcolm emailed it to chess24, chess.com & chessbase on the same day. I think we were the only site to publish: https://chess24.com/en/read/news/arkady ... -president

[JustinHorton]

One kind of question worth asking, perhaps, would relate to the financial situation betwen AGON and FIDE, and how it stands at the moment.

[Roger de Coverly]

As reported by chessbase, there are some changes to the format for the next World Championship match.

https://en.chessbase.com/post/fide-upda ... ampionship

Nothing that drastic

14 games instead of 12

no draws other than by repetition before move 40

time control 40 moves in 120 minutes, 20 in 60 and then 15 to finish, with a 30 sevond increment only applying from move 61.

[Mick Norris]

Interesting snippet

The portfolio of the GSC commission is also the main focus of Sutovsky's work, as he noted in a recent interview (in Russian) with ChessPro. One of the salient takeaways is that, presumably, FIDE will abandon the claim first put forward by World Chess following a commissioned YouGov poll in 2012 that there are "more than 600 million" chess players globally. Sutovsky rightly criticised the poll's methodology, and promises "serious research" into this question.

[Mick Norris]

And

When pressed on this point, Martynov (FIDE's legal advisor) only reiterated the terms of the January press release:

FIDE and World Chess intend to jointly develop a policy of broadcasting FIDE events in the interests of spectators and long-term commercial development of chess sports. In line with the policy, World Chess shall develop the official broadcasting widget in accordance with FIDE technical guidelines that will be offered for free to all media and sites alike and will allow live moves relay broadcast. World Chess will also develop and promote video broadcasting of Grand Prix and other tournaments as will be determined by FIDE and World Chess in the future.

Beyond that, Martynov added, "The policy of FIDE, first of all, is that the moves should be available free to all in a live mode."

[Richard Bates]

What is the penalty for breaching the Sofia rules?

[Alex Holowczak]

What is the penalty for breaching the Sofia rules?

I put this point to Emil on Facebook, and a number of other points. The other points got responses, but not this one. But of course, there isn't a penalty really...

They should add a regulation about prize money being forfeited rather than scoring it 0-0.

[Paul Cooksey]

I'm not sure we really need a penalty. Even at the height of a match with Kramnik-Topalov levels of bad feeling I cannot see a reason why the players would agree a draw against the rules

I though the announcement was good news overall, including the revamp of the women's cycle.