2021 World Cup
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:47 am
A FIDE press release issued on March 6th stated that FIDE had approved proposals from the four Continental Federations related to their qualification structures for the next FIDE World Cup to be held in July 2021. "As the epidemical situation remains complicated all over the World, a significant number of qualifiers will be held in the hybrid format. This decision is considered inevitable and exceptional in order to enable the qualification process."
It appears that a lot of the top players will be ok to play in it as long as it isn't rated. At the foot of the FIDE Press release you can clearly see it states "(decision pending)".
Israeli GM, Evgeny Postny, messaged ECU President, Zurab Azmaiparashvili with the following:
"Let me bring you the results of the poll that I conducted on my page in Facebook. At the end of this message you will find the long list of players (36 at the moment) from sixteen European countries. All the mentioned players (including myself) are ready to take part, or at least to seriously consider a participation in the European Hybrid Qualification that you are going to organize at the dates 22 - 30 May 2021, upon one important condition: this European Hybrid Qualification event will not be FIDE rated. Please ensure that this point will be stated clearly in the regulations.
All the mentioned players are either rated 2600+ or top players in their countries respectively. I am sure that you will take into account the opinion of chess professionals. Let's act together for the sake of our beloved game of chess."
List of players:
Sergei Movsesian (ARM)
Gadir Guseinov (AZE)
Nijat Abasov (AZE)
Romain Edouard (FRA)
Baadur Jobava (GEO)
Mikheil Mchedlishvili (GEO)
Daniel Fridman (GER)
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (GER)
Georg Meier (GER)
Niclas Huschenbeth (GER)
Dimitrios Mastrovasilis (GRE)
Maxim Rodshtein (ISR)
Nitzan Steinberg (ISR)
Victor Mikhalevski (ISR)
Evgeny Postny (ISR)
Tomas Laurusas (LTU)
Kiril Georgiev (MKD)
Frode Olav Olsen Urkedal (NOR)
Mateusz Bartel (POL)
Kacper Piorun (POL)
Grzegorz Gajewski (POL)
Constantin Lupulescu (ROU)
Anton Demchenko (RUS)
Vladimir Fedoseev (RUS)
Grigoriy Oparin (RUS)
Maksim Chigaev (RUS)
Mikhail Antipov (RUS)
Alexandr Predke (RUS)
David Paravian (RUS)
Alexander Motylev (RUS)
Igor Lysyj (RUS)
Yannick Pelletier (SUI)
Mustafa Yilmaz (TUR)
Anton Korobov (UKR)
Alexander Moiseenko (UKR)
Yuriy Kuzubov (UKR)
It will be interesting to see whether ad hoc Facebook polls become the new decision making tool for FIDE.
It appears that a lot of the top players will be ok to play in it as long as it isn't rated. At the foot of the FIDE Press release you can clearly see it states "(decision pending)".
Israeli GM, Evgeny Postny, messaged ECU President, Zurab Azmaiparashvili with the following:
"Let me bring you the results of the poll that I conducted on my page in Facebook. At the end of this message you will find the long list of players (36 at the moment) from sixteen European countries. All the mentioned players (including myself) are ready to take part, or at least to seriously consider a participation in the European Hybrid Qualification that you are going to organize at the dates 22 - 30 May 2021, upon one important condition: this European Hybrid Qualification event will not be FIDE rated. Please ensure that this point will be stated clearly in the regulations.
All the mentioned players are either rated 2600+ or top players in their countries respectively. I am sure that you will take into account the opinion of chess professionals. Let's act together for the sake of our beloved game of chess."
List of players:
Sergei Movsesian (ARM)
Gadir Guseinov (AZE)
Nijat Abasov (AZE)
Romain Edouard (FRA)
Baadur Jobava (GEO)
Mikheil Mchedlishvili (GEO)
Daniel Fridman (GER)
Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (GER)
Georg Meier (GER)
Niclas Huschenbeth (GER)
Dimitrios Mastrovasilis (GRE)
Maxim Rodshtein (ISR)
Nitzan Steinberg (ISR)
Victor Mikhalevski (ISR)
Evgeny Postny (ISR)
Tomas Laurusas (LTU)
Kiril Georgiev (MKD)
Frode Olav Olsen Urkedal (NOR)
Mateusz Bartel (POL)
Kacper Piorun (POL)
Grzegorz Gajewski (POL)
Constantin Lupulescu (ROU)
Anton Demchenko (RUS)
Vladimir Fedoseev (RUS)
Grigoriy Oparin (RUS)
Maksim Chigaev (RUS)
Mikhail Antipov (RUS)
Alexandr Predke (RUS)
David Paravian (RUS)
Alexander Motylev (RUS)
Igor Lysyj (RUS)
Yannick Pelletier (SUI)
Mustafa Yilmaz (TUR)
Anton Korobov (UKR)
Alexander Moiseenko (UKR)
Yuriy Kuzubov (UKR)
It will be interesting to see whether ad hoc Facebook polls become the new decision making tool for FIDE.