Athens - April 22, 2004
Announcement of FIDE concerning the
2004 World Chess Championship
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