FIDE allows Carlsen more time

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Acceding to world champion Magnus Carlsen’s request to extend the last date for signing of the players’ contract for his world championship title-match against challenger Viswanathan Anand, FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has set September 7 as the new deadline.
The previous deadline was August 31, but Carlsen, currently busy playing in the elite Sinquefield Cup (that ends on September 7) in St. Louis, USA, had asked for more time.
However, Carlsen’s manager Espen Agdestein was not entirely happy with the new date.
‘Not very helpful’
He told Norwegian television channel VG that the September 7 date was “not very helpful” because “now (Magnus) has to think about this the whole tournament.”
He also stated that Team Carlsen had asked for September 17 as the new deadline.
Anand has already signed the players’ contract for the $1.5m match to be held at Sochi, Russia from November 7 to 28 this year.
Only two days ago, FIDE vice-president Israel Geller told a leading chess website that “the deadline is August 31, 2014. A signature on September 1 or 2 is tolerable, but we cannot wait longer.”
But it took the intervention of Association of Chess Professionals president Emil Sutovsky to give Team Carlsen some breathing time.
Sutovsky spoke to Carlsen’s manager and then had a “very constructive and fruitful conversation” with the FIDE president.
“After hearing all the arguments, the FIDE president has accepted my proposal to approve Carlsen’s request and agreed to extend the deadline for the signing of the contract.”
Sutovsky further said, “I wasn’t excited by how the world championship and Olympiad Commission treated the issue.
“Then, I wrote an open letter, but as things didn’t change, I found no other option than to call Kirsan. I told him it cannot be that the world’s strongest player can be forfeited for this deadline.”
Right after the phone call, Ilyumzhinov signed a formal letter and sent it to Sutovsky, who forwarded it to Agdestein. The Norwegian confirmed receiving the letter.
“This doesn’t ensure the contract will be signed, but it was important to give them some time,” said Sutovsky.
“Should Carlsen forfeit the match, then Anand will take on Russia’s Sergey Karjakin, the runner-up of the Candidates tournament, for the world title.
Meanwhile, All India Chess Federation CEO Bharat Singh Chauhan, who is also FIDE’s technical commission chairman, said, “the AICF is yet to hear formally from the world body.”

link-http://www.thehindu.com/sport/other-sports/fide-allows-magnus-carlsen-more-time/article6365611.ece

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