Tehran, 26 December 2000To All National Federations To All Chess players To Members of the Press
Dear Friends:
The Presidential Board of FIDE, chaired by the FIDE President, H.E. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, met today at the Chess Palace in Tehran, Iran, and after wide ranging consultations with FIDE officials and players took a number of far reaching decisions with respect to the World Chess Championship titles. A copy of the text of the historic Tehran Declaration on World Chess Championship titles is annexed herewith.
In line with the decision of the FIDE General Assembly in Istanbul and based on the consensus of opinion of the overwhel- ming majority of top players at the World Chess Championship in New Delhi, the Board unanimously approved the new time control, with effect from 1 January 2001. Instead of the existing format (40 moves in 100 minutes, 20 moves in 50 minutes, 10 minutes for the remainder of the game with an increment of 30 seconds), the new time control to be used in all FIDE events and interna- tional title tournaments will be 40 moves in 75 minutes, 15 minutes for the remainder of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move from move 1.
With regard to the new format of the World Chess Championship, the Presidential Board noted with satisfaction the success of the current knockout format, congratulating the 15th World Champion, Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand of India, and the runner-up, GM Alexey Shirov of Spain, for their outstanding victories in their matches and resolved not to change the current format for the World Championship. The Board however resolved to increase the number of places to 128 players as against the previous figure of 100, while insisting that all players should now play from the first round in keeping with the principle established by the FIDE General Assembly that there should be no special privileges for any of the players. Of particular significance was the Board's decision to include the World Internet Championship, which will be open to quali- fication to the top 8 players to participate in the World Chess Championship.
The Board also approved in principle the establishment of a parallel system of an elite section of the top 32 players, to play in a series of events, including the Grand Prix qualifying tournaments, the World Chess Cup and the Grand Prix final, as part of FIDE's commercialisation programme. A special Committee to be chaired by the Deputy President G. Makropoulos, has been mandated by the Board to coordinate all aspects of the planning and the preparation of the World Chess Championship, World Internet Championship and the series of elite tournaments on behalf of FIDE in collaboration with Mr. A. Tarasov of FIDE Commerce.
You can take participation in the live conference on the FIDE Web Site.
Copyright (c) 99 FIDE, FIDE Commerce PLC
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