Surpreendente !!!
O Campeão do Mundo Magnus Carlsen, a jovem super-estrela de Xadrez, é suposto ser desafiado pelo ex-Campeão
Viswanathan Anand, um Indiano com 1,3 biliões de fans, em Novembro deste ano.
MAS.... o praso para as candidaturas a receberem este match acabaram a 30 de Abril sem que a FIDE tenha recebido uma unica proposta !!!
Qual será a razão ? Brutal !!!
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Envolvidos nestas 'andanças' avançam as seguintes teorias e argumentos:
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India had just staged a World Champion for their chess hero in Chennai,
in November 2013 with a prize fund of 1.8 million Euros and a total
cost of Rs 20 crores. That's 200,000,000 Rupees = 3.2 million Euros
or US $4.5 million, at the time, that the organisers
had to pledge for staging the event. The chances that a similar
amount would be available for a return match in India, just twelve months
later, were slim.
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Norway was the obvious place to look to – we did
so ourselves, but unfortunately only as an
April Fool's jest. Norway is awash with oil revenue, it is gripped
in chess fever (actually "Magnus Carlsen fever" would be a
more accurate description), television channels are battling each other
for full live coverage of Carlsen matches. However Norway is already
staging a Supertournament – Chess
2014 – in June and the 41st Chess Olympiad in August, the
latter with a total budget of 40 million NOK (€4.8 or US $6.8 million).
The Olympiad is been fully funded yet, and the organisers are still
negotiating with sponsors. In that situation they are very upset to
have a rival event competing for the sponsorship money. You can read
about the "scandal" in this
Nordlys article, or if you do not speak Norwegian, in this
Google translation.
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FIDE critics – and especially Garry Kasparov on his Twitter feed
(Kasparov is running against incumbent Kirsan Ilyumzhinov for FIDE President)
– blame it on the unprofessionalism of the International Chess
Federation and their World Championship company. Kasparov: "Many
western sponsors don't want to deal with Kirsan's FIDE & some of
his usual backers are facing sanctions."
- The World Chess Championship might be overvalued?! This is an argument
we find difficult to accept. Events like these have in the past sometimes
draw just a handful of spectators to the venue. But on the one hand recent
tournaments (like the Zurich
Chess Challenge or the London
Chess Classic) have drawn sizable audiences; and on the other the
real audience is to be found world-wide on the Internet, where potentially
millions could be watching the games on chess servers, with live GM commentary
and discussions. And on the third (sorry) we can see an interesting trend
of showing games on television, live and in full length, as Norwegian
TV did during the Chennai match. And all this for a fraction of a fraction
of the costs for a soccer game, a tennis match or (a fraction of a fraction
of a fraction of a) motorsport Grand Prix race.
Bidding procedure for the FIDE World Championship Match 2014 :
1. Following the success of last year's World Championship match in Chennai,
FIDE and its commercial partner AGON are searching potential venues for
the 2014 FIDE World Championship match, where the world champion Magnus
Carlsen will defend his title against a challenger to be determined from
the Candidates Tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk this March.
2. The World Championship Match 2014 shall take place from 6 November (game
1) to 25 November 2014 (possible tiebreaks/closing ceremony).
3. Each bid shall contain the following particulars as minimum:
a) Proposed venue of the event.
b) Proposed prize fund for the players (should be offered net of any applicable
local taxes). The prize fund for the 2013 event in Chennai was 1,850,000
euros.
c) The contribution to FIDE (net of any applicable local taxes and not
less than 20% of the prize fund), as stipulated in article 13.2, as well
as the financial obligations stated in article 14 of the World Championship
Match 2014 regulations.
d) Commitment to cover all the other financial obligations to FIDE, in
accordance with the regulations of the World Championship Match 2014.
e) Commitment to cover all organizational costs, in accordance with the
regulations of the World Championship Match 2014.
f) Category of official hotel (minimum 4 stars), and name if possible,
with special room rates for visitors, including meals.
g) A statement that the applicant accepts the regulations of the match
without any reservations.
h) An invitation for 2 (two) members of the FIDE Commission for World Chess
Championships and Olympiads to inspect the proposed venue and examine the
other conditions, with all travel/hotel expenses paid by the bidder.
i) The applicant's name, signatures and authentication.
4. In order for a proposed bid to be considered, it should be accompanied
by a 9-month term bank guarantee covering the amount of prize fund (in Chennai
2013 this was 1,850,000 euros), the FIDE contribution (20% over and above
the prize fund), 5% for WCOC budget and 5% for the commercial rights plus
32,500 euros covering stipends of Principals as described in article 14.5
of the match regulations. This guarantee should be from a bank that FIDE
bankers, UBS of Switzerland, are able to confirm as acceptable.
5. Alternatively to the above paragraph, a bidder can deposit in FIDE's
bank account the amount of 200,000 euros by the deadline of 30 April 2014
(refundable if the bid is rejected), another 50% of the prize fund before
31 May 2014 and the balance of all remaining obligations before 31 August
2014.
6. A bid is considered valid if it is accompanied with a non-refundable
Bid Fee of 2,000 euros payable to FIDE.
7. No bidder can propose a sponsor which shall be in conflict with the
regulations of the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
8. The bids, including all original documents and particulars, should arrive
by registered post to the FIDE Secretariat, post address: 9 Syggrou Ave.,
11743 Athens -Greece. The bidding process will close on 30 April 2014, 13:00
GMT.
9. When the deadline has expired, the FIDE President or his representative
shall open the received envelopes in order to assess the bids. FIDE will
inform the bidding parties of the results within 3 days after the deadline.
The final contract with the successful bidder shall be signed within 10
days afterwards.
10. FIDE reserves the right to accept a bid based on the evaluation of
all criteria under article 3 of the present bidding procedure and not only
that of the prize fund. FIDE also reserves the right not to award any bid
at all, however favorable it might be.
Released by the FIDE Secretariat, 9 January 2014
Updated by the FIDE Secretariat, 11 March 2014
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