Stopping of the Candidates Tournament

[David Sedgwick]

You can vote for one or more of the first four options, or for the fifth option.

The poll will run for 30 days. You may change your vote during that time.

I am not expressing any opinion, but I wished to give others the opportunity to do so.

[Matt Mackenzie]

Maybe not (so far anyway) the result that some were expecting?

[Paul Cooksey]

I was a bit surprised by the question. Asking FIDE to acknowledge this has gone wrong and to try to do better seems appropriate. But it doesn't seem like an individual error or the result of anyone acting in bad faith.

I was tempted to vote for Short to resign, but only because that always seems a sensible option...

[David Sedgwick]

I was a bit surprised by the question. Asking FIDE to acknowledge this has gone wrong and to try to do better seems appropriate. But it doesn't seem like an individual error or the result of anyone acting in bad faith.

Calls for resignations have been made elsewhere, for instance by Justin Horton at https://twitter.com/ejhchess/status/1243095960013746178.

So I wanted to ascertain the opinions of members of this Forum. I named the three individuals who seemed to me to be the most public advocates of proceeding with the Candidates from the moment that Radjabov withdrew.

[JustinHorton]

I was a bit surprised by the question. Asking FIDE to acknowledge this has gone wrong and to try to do better seems appropriate. But it doesn't seem like an individual error or the result of anyone acting in bad faith.

Calls for resignations have been made elsewhere, for instance by Justin Horton at https://twitter.com/ejhchess/status/1243095960013746178.

So I wanted to ascertain the opinions of members of this Forum

Why would the first of these things have anything to do with the second?

[NickFaulks]

Calls for resignations have been made elsewhere.....

So I wanted to ascertain the opinions of members of this Forum

Why would the first of these things have anything to do with the second?

This looks entirely reasonable to me. Had David not backed up his opening statement with an example, you might have been the first to ask where he had found evidence for it.

[JustinHorton]

Calls for resignations have been made elsewhere.....

So I wanted to ascertain the opinions of members of this Forum

Why would the first of these things have anything to do with the second?

This looks entirely reasonable to me. Had David not backed up his opening statement with an example, you might have been the first to ask where he had found evidence for it.

Are you misunderstanding my point here Nick

[NickFaulks]

Ah, I do get the point now. You're saying that David's two-pronged comment might have stood alone rather than appearing as a reply to Paul's. Fair enough, but surely just a minor technicality.

[JustinHorton]

Ah, not quite, but I can see now that I shouldn't have included Paul's comment in the quote part of the posting.

[David Sedgwick]

Paul said that he was surprised by the question(s) which I had asked, so I was seeking to explain why I had asked them.

[Paul Cooksey]

For which I am grateful. That said, with all due lack of respect to Justin, has anyone whose opinion FIDE might care about asked for resignations?

I had not seen anyone go this far, other than those like eg Danilov who were fiercely critical already.

[Matt Mackenzie]

And they aren't a bad enemy for FIDE to have.....