
Dear chessfriends,
During the past 3-4 days the FIDE website and email server had been unavailable due to a hardware failure of our web hosting provider. Because of this problem a number of qualified players for the 2004 World Chess Championship informed us that they had problems downloading the required Player's Undertaking from the FIDE website in time, to meet the deadline of April 21.
Taking into consideration this unfortunate situation, FIDE is extending the deadline for the receipt of the WCC 2004 Player's Undertaking for 3 more working days and the new deadline is Tuesday, April 27, 15:00 (13:00 GMT).
FIDE is also pleased to announce that 110 qualified players (out of 128) have already signed their participation for the 2004 World Chess Championship.
Athens - April 22, 2004
Released by the FIDE Secretariat