sábado, 16 de novembro de 2013
Campeonato Nacional Individual Absoluto 2011/2012
sábado, 26 de outubro de 2013
GM António Fernandes: Carta aberta à F.P.X.
Lisboa, 18 de Outubro de 2013
Assunto: Protesto em relação à tomada de decisão da Direção da Federação Portuguesa
de Xadrez no seu Comunicado Dir-020-2013, relativamente ao Campeonato
Nacional Individual Absoluto 2011/2012 – Título.
Penso que fica tudo um pouco mais claro e cada um poderá tirar as ilações que muito bem entender acerca do grande prejuízo que os jogadores supostamente empatados tiveram nas partidas disputadas com o Luís Galego.
Com os melhores cumprimentos,
GM António Fernandes
segunda-feira, 21 de outubro de 2013
Protesto do GM António Fernandes: Carta aberta à F.P.X.
Lisboa, 18 de Outubro de 2013
Assunto: Protesto em relação à tomada de decisão da Direção da Federação Portuguesa
de Xadrez no seu Comunicado Dir-020-2013, relativamente ao Campeonato
Nacional Individual Absoluto 2011/2012 – Título.
A pergunta que se põe é: É aceitável manter um critério de desempate que também ele, pelo mesmo juízo de valor efetuado para a anulação de todos os jogos disputados com o Luís Galego, passou a beneficiar determinados jogadores, quando supostamente o critério de desempate deve ser aplicado a uma competição dita normal, disputada em igualdade de circunstâncias, tudo menos o que esta passou a ser?
Penso que fica tudo um pouco mais claro e cada um poderá tirar as ilações que muito bem entender acerca do grande prejuízo que os jogadores supostamente empatados tiveram nas partidas disputadas com o Luís Galego.
Com os melhores cumprimentos,
GM António Fernandes
quinta-feira, 22 de janeiro de 2009
Decisão final da FIDE: Ivanchuk não será penalizado !

Isto por causa de um erro de procedimento: um representante do Departamento de Controlo Anti-Dopagem não estava presente quando o Ivanchuk foi abordado para fazer o teste. Esta decisão foi tomada ontem pela Comissão para FIDE para este assunto, em Wijk aan Zee.
segunda-feira, 15 de dezembro de 2008
Jornais europeus falam sobre "The Ivanchuck File" - « The Great Chess Doping Scandal »
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Extractos de alguns jornais onde pode ser lido sobre "The Ivanchuck File" :
Spiegel

The Great Chess Doping Scandal
By Maik Grossekathöfer
Grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk refused to submit a urine sample for a drug test at the Chess Olympiad in Dresden and is now considered guilty of doping. The world of chess is outraged that he could face a two-year ban.
Professional chess player Vassily Ivanchuk, born in Berezhany, Ukraine in 1969, has been a grandmaster for the past 20 years and is currently ranked third in the world. The man with black hair and bedroom eyes is known as "Big Chucky" by his fellow chess players. Why? Because, after losing a game, he goes into the forest at night and howls at the moon to drive out the demons. Because he walks around in shorts in freezing temperatures. Because he likes to sit in dark rooms. Because he usually looks at the ceiling instead of the board during a chess match. Because he tries to fold the oversized winner's check handed out after a tournament down to pocket size. And because he, as World Champion Visvanathan Anand says, lives on "Planet Ivanchuk."
Who knows what was going through Ivanchuk's head when, on Nov. 25 in Dresden, the last day of the Chess Olympiad, he lost to Gata Kamsky? What we do know, however, is that when the game against the American ended, a judge asked Ivanchuk to submit to a drug test. Instead, he stormed out of the room in the conference center, kicked a concrete pillar in the lobby, pounded a countertop in the cafeteria with his fists and then vanished into the coatroom. Throughout this performance, he was followed by a handful of officials.
No one could convince Ivanchuk to provide a small amount of urine for the test. And because refusal is treated as a positive test result, he is now considered guilty of doping and could be barred from professional chess for two years.
Deadspin
Doping Scandal Threatens To Destroy The World Of ... Chess?
By Dashiell Bennett
Vassily Ivanchuk of the Ukraine is the third-ranked player in the world, but he faces a two-year ban from his game because he failed a drug test. A drug test. In chess.
Actually, to be precise, he didn't fail it—he refused to take it, which in the totally rational world of international drug testing, counts as a positive. Actually, to be more precise, he refused to take it, then "stormed out of the room in the conference center, kicked a concrete pillar in the lobby, pounded a countertop in the cafeteria with his fists and then vanished into the coatroom." Which also counts as a positive, because if that's not roid rage, I don't know what is.
The reason he was even asked is because chess is trying to become an Olympic sport and therefore, must submit to all the all the rules of the IOC, including their anti-doping program. The only problem is that almost none of the world's top players give a crap about the Olympics and most consider any comparison between their beautiful intellectual pursuit and silly baby games like soccer and badminton to be an insult. Many in the community are furious that one of the world's top players—who clearly wasn't cheating—could be denied the right to compete because of some crazy pipe dream about Olympic medals. (It's unlikely that chess will ever be included in the Games.)
Besides ... how the hell do you dope in chess?
By the way, part of the explanation for Ivanchuk's hissy fit is that they asked him to pee in a cup just moments after he lost a match in the prestigious Chess Olympiad ... to an American! That's like losing in ice hockey to ... well ... an American!
- Source: Deadspin
Sunday Mirror
Chess grandmaster banned in drug test row:
Plus the Top 10 doping scandals
By Chris Wilson, Mirror.co.uk
Chess, a sport usually associated with old, beady men, maverick Russians and super-computers, has hit the headlines this week after a top Ukrainian player got caught up in a doping scandal. Professional chess player and grandmaster Vassily Ivanchuk faces a two-year ban from the sport after refusing a drug test at Dresden's Chess Olympiad. He declined to provide a urine sample after losing to American Gata Kamsky. It’s an insult to his intelligence and honour, claims the chess community.
Ivanchuk may be the first chess player to be caught up in a doping row, but he's certainly not the first sports star to do so, as this rogue's gallery proves...
[Ten famous cases are listed, the last is the most interesting for chess players:]
10. Neil Foulds – Like chess, snooker isn’t really a sport where you’d think illegal substances could enhance a player’s performance, but during the early 1980s Neil Foulds was found to be taking beta blockers. The drugs are said to help steady the hand, which obviously helps with snooker. Foulds never recovered from the beta blockers scandal and dropped rapidly down the rankings.
The Hindu
Ivanchuk facing 2-year ban
After the Championship Cup being damaged and the diamond from its crown being stolen, world chess is in for another round of unsavoury controversies. Vasily Ivanchuk, Ukraine's leading player and World No. 3, could well be banned for two years for not taking a dope test after the final round of the Chess Olympiad last month at Dresden.
The FIDE president, Kirsan Ilyumshinov, himself has indicated that Ivanchuk could face a two-year ban. Also, all his games at the Olympiad could be annulled. That would not only put a big question mark on the career of one of the leading and talented chess players over the past decade and a half, but could also lead to a redistribution of medals won at Dresden.
Ukraine could also lose the prestigious Gaprindashvili Cup given to the team with the best combined score among men and women after the main championship. However, this was not the only controversy, which hit the chess Olympiad.
ChessBase report: Olympiad Dresden – the Ivanchuk Files
The events surrounding the failed attempt to get Vassily Ivanchuk to submit to a doping test have hit the broadsheets and news services. A number of chess players, most publicly Alexei Shirov, have expressed fears that Ivanchuk may be banned from competitive chess and the medals redistributed.
Da fama Ivanchuck já não se livra. Até pode estar inocente mas a sua "fuga" ao controlo não vai ser esquecida.
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sexta-feira, 5 de dezembro de 2008
Doping em Dresden: "The Ivanchuck File" - part II
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Aqui fica o "status" da situação, em inglês, para não perder pitada da conversa e da situação actual.
« While his missed drug test in Dresden has become the subject of a heated discussion in the chess world, the main character in this story is simply continueing what he loves most: playing chess. Ivanchuk currenly stars in Benidorm, Spain, and will be one of the participants in the new super tournament in Nanjing, China, starting next week.
As reported by Chess Today, the current situation in the “Ivanchuk Case” is that FIDE will probably meet with Ivanchuk during the Corus Chess Tournament in Wijk aan Zee tournament. There and then the Ukrainian top player will have a chance to tell his side of the story, after which the FIDE Medical Commission will make a decision.
At the moment Ivanchuk is playing in Benidorm, Spain together with Alexei Shirov, Sergei Tiviakov, Kateryna Lahno, Xavi Vila and Sabrina Vega. The group is called the Grand Torneo de las Estrellas (grand tournament of the stars) and it’s part of the 7th annual festival which includes many side events like blitz and rapid opens, simuls, you name it. The link for the “Estrellas” live games should be this one although it currently shows some other games.
Next week a brand new super tournament will take off: the Pearl Spring Chess Tournament in Nanjing, China. The set-up is identical to the MTel Masters: a double, six-player round-robin. Ivanchuk, who won that last MTel with an amazing score, will face three other participants who were also in Sofia: Topalov, Aronian and Bu Xiangzhi. The other two are Peter Svidler and Sergei Movsesian. Much more on that tournament later; here’s the link to the official website. »
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quarta-feira, 3 de dezembro de 2008
Doping em Dresden: The Ivanchuck File
Todos estes rumores chegaram a imprensa e o verniz à volta de Dresden e do Xadrez "estalou" ! Como diz Shirov, existe "no ar" o receio que o Ivancuck possa ser banido da competição e das medalhas tenham de ser redistribuidas.

Aqui ficam todos os detalhes do caso: ........... "The Ivanchuck File"
« The "Doping Affair" in DresdenThe events surrounding the final round match Ukraine vs USA and the failed attempt to get Vassily Ivanchuk to submit to a doping test have made the broadsheets and non-chess magazines. In Germany the newspapers Frankfurter Allgemeine and Berliner Zeitung carried stories, and the biggest illustrated weekly magazine, Stern, ran a report under the title: "Doping Scandal Shakes the Chess World". In the latter the tournament director of the Olympiad, Dr Dirk Jordan, is quoted as saying that he expected the medals to be redistributed after FIDE had examined the case. | ![]() |
Let us take another look at exactly what happened. After ten rounds, with one to go, the top teams in direct contention for the medals were:
Rk. SNo Team Team Gms + = - TB1 TB2 TB3 TB41 9 Armenia ARM 10 8 1 1 17 339.0 128.0 28.52 2 Ukraine UKR 10 7 3 0 17 309.5 133.0 25.03 8 Israel ISR 10 7 2 1 16 315.5 123.0 25.54 3 China CHN 10 7 2 1 16 291.5 122.0 25.55 1 Russia RUS 10 7 1 2 15 309.0 127.0 25.06 20 Netherlands NED 10 7 1 2 15 292.0 116.0 26.07 12 Spain ESP 10 7 1 2 15 270.0 112.0 25.58 10 USA USA 10 7 1 2 15 266.0 114.0 25.5
For the second seed Ukrainian team everything was looking great: a victory over the tenth seed USA in the final round would give them Gold, a draw would secure Silver and even a 1:3 loss to the US would result in a Bronze medal. However, the final result was ½:3½ and subsequently Ukraine did not win any medal at all, losing Bronze to the US on tiebreak points. Here are the final standings:
Rk. SNo Team Team Gms + = - TB1 TB2 TB3 TB41 9 Armenia ARM 11 9 1 1 19 400.5 152.0 31.02 8 Israel ISR 11 8 2 1 18 377.5 149.0 28.03 10 USA USA 11 8 1 2 17 362.0 146.0 29.04 2 Ukraine UKR 11 7 3 1 17 348.5 163.0 25.55 1 Russia RUS 11 7 2 2 16 375.0 156.0 27.06 4 Azerbaijan AZE 11 7 2 2 16 359.5 147.0 29.07 3 China CHN 11 7 2 2 16 357.5 150.0 27.08 5 Hungary HUN 11 7 2 2 16 341.5 140.0 27.59 37 Vietnam VIE 11 7 2 2 16 340.0 137.0 29.010 12 Spain ESP 11 7 2 2 16 337.5 142.0 27.511 17 Georgia GEO 11 8 0 3 16 321.0 138.0 28.0
For the Ukrainians this was the most traumatic turn of events possible. As we previously reported, Vassily Ivanchuk, who lost his game against Gata Kamsky, left the playing area in a highly emotional state, and began to vent his feelings. The Australian blogger Shaun Press describes the scene: "I was standing outside the playing hall, alongside New Zealand delegate Bob Gibbons, and witnessed Ivanchuk kick a large concrete pillar, then bang his fists on the food service counter a couple of times, before storming past where we were standing, into the cloak room area of the venue, all the time being followed by a couple of officials."
As fate would have it, FIDE had nominated the top Ukrainian player (not the entire team, as stated in our earlier report) for a doping control. This could not be implemented, since nobody was able to restrain Ivanchuk and convince him to participate. This put FIDE in a quandary. The FIDE Anti-Doping Regulations define doping violations as including:
2.3. Refusing, or failing without compelling justification, to submit to Sample collection after notification as authorized in these Anti-Doping Rules or otherwise evading Sample collection.
Article 6: Consequences of Doping of the FIDE Regulations give the punishment:
A. Automatic disqualification of individual results
B. Sanctions on individuals
For A the regulations specify that a violation may lead to "Disqualification of all of the Player’s individual results obtained in that Event with all consequences, including forfeiture of all medals, points and prizes." In B sanctions are defined as a two-year ban for a first violation and a life-long ban for a second violation.
Officials and participants at the Olympiad speculated that FIDE would be obliged to disqualify the Ukrainians, as they had done to other teams in the past. Shaun Press, who plays for Papua New Guinea, wrote ominously: "In 2004 both myself and Bobby Miller (Bermuda), refused to provide a sample to doping control at the Calvia Olympiad. We were then subject to a highly flawed disciplinary hearing (one member of the panel being a player I defeated earlier in the event), and at the end of the hearing we were both found guilty and had our points removed from the teams total (eg PNG went from 23 down to 15.5 points in the final standings). So faced with a higher profile name then either myself or Bobby, and the possibilty that the 4th place team would be effectively disqualified, FIDE finally did what they should have done all along. They simply ignored Ivanchuk's offence and declined to hold a hearing. I'm not sure how they will explain this to WADA (World Anti Drug Agency), but I'm sure they'll find a way."
We ourselves assumed that FIDE had taken a decision to ignore the offence, since four hours later the medals were distributed and the official web site carried all the results unchanged. We had witnessed Boris Spassky's passionate appeal to FIDE Vice President Israel Gelfer not to cancel the results of the Ukrainian side, but it turns out that this was not the reason why no on-the-spot action was taken. Gelfer was not involved in the decision, which was in the hands of others. The FIDE Treasurer Nigel Freeman explained it to us:
"The procedures are well known to Jana [Dr Jana Bellin], David [Jarrett, the Executive Director of FIDE] and myself, but probably not to other members of the Presidential Board. All matters have to go to the Medical Commission and there was no time for them to hold a Meeting in Dresden. They will hold it in due course and Ivanchuk will have the right to state his case should he wish to do so. They will then advise what action should be taken. I had no knowledge of any views that Boris Spassky had: they had no effect on the action taken."
Which was, quite wisely, to do nothing for the time being. If FIDE had penalised Ukraine – disqualified the top board or team and given all of Ivanchuk’s games to his opponents – the final medal distribution would have been different: Armenia would still have obtained Gold, and Israel Silver, but Hungary (!) would have taken Bronze. And a two-year ban from chess competition would be a disaster for Ivanchuk and for top-level chess as well (Ivanchuk is the third-highest rated player and one of the most active in the world).
The case is now pending: a five-man medical commission of FIDE has to convene and decide on the consequences, no later than three months after the incident. The quandary remains: FIDE can penalize a top player and redistribute the medals, or alienate the IOC Doping Commission and endanger recognition of FIDE as a IOC sport (which is why the rather nonsensical drug-testing for chess players was instituted in the first place).
However: there is a way out: in Article 6.1 (a) the FIDE Anti-Doping Regulations state: "If the Player establishes that he or she bears No Fault or Negligence for the violation, the Player’s individual results in the other Competition shall not be disqualified." One can only hope that Vassily Ivanchuk and FIDE will find a way to establish just this. »
Se fosse um "Zé da Esquina" qualquer já estava completamente lixado (para não dizer palavra pior). MAS... como foi o Sr. Ivanchuck... vamos todos perdoar, abafar e esquecer a situação...
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