Presserklärung:
| Bessel Kok and Pavel Matocha issue following
statement We have been informed that the NWR coal corporation which
intended to support the Grand Prix in Karlovy Vary in December 2009 will
not enter into sponsorship. This information and the reasons behind this
decision were already communicated to Geoffrey Borg and FIDE and also to
grandmaster David Navara, who was nominated by the Czech organisers to
Grand Prix tournaments.
There are multiple reasons for this decision:
- the withdrawal of top players from the GrandPrix tournaments (mainly
withdrawal of Magnus Carlsen, the number one player of the GP and
the most media attractive player is problem)
- the confusion on the role of the winner of the Grand Prix (will
be there the match between the winner of GP and the winner of World
Cup for the right to play the world championship match? or there
will be a candidates tournament?), it is unacceptable to change the
rules during the game
- the current financial crisis, which wiped out 80% of market
value of NWR and sponsoring has been their first cut in operating
expenditure.
In Prague on the 19th of January 2009 |
Im Februar 2008 veröffentlichte die
FIDE eine
Ankündigung für den neu eingeführten Grand Prix. Inzwischen gab es eine Reihe
von Änderungen.
| 1 |
2008 |
20. April bis |
6 Mai May |
Baku |
| 2 |
2008 |
30. Juli bis |
August 15th |
Krasnojarsk – verlegt nach Sotschi |
| 3 |
2008 |
13. Dezember bis |
29. Dezember |
Doha – verlegt nach Elista |
| 4 |
2009 |
14. April |
28. April |
Montreux – abgesagt |
| 5 |
2009 |
1. August |
17. August |
Elista |
| 6 |
2009 |
7. Dezember |
23. Dezembed |
Karlovy Vary - abgesagt |
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Reserve: Istanbul und Teheran |
