The Freestyle Chess Tour, a brainchild of Jan Henric Buettner and backed by the likes of Carlsen, had bene facing contention aft Carlen leaked backstage messages. (FILE photo)
Days aft talks betwixt FIDE and Freestyle Chess Tour collapsed implicit the usage of the rubric satellite title successful the tour’s title, the satellite governing assemblage FIDE stated that the organisers of Freestyle Chess Tour person afloat deleted the ‘world championship’ rubric from its regulations. In an updated connection issued connected FIDE website, the satellite governing assemblage has shared that the players wishing to enactment successful the circuit are nary longer required to motion the waiver note. The caller tour, backed by erstwhile satellite champion Magnus Carlsen, was successful loggerheads with the satellite assemblage implicit the usage of the rubric ‘world championship, and the contented seems to resolve.
“The organizers of the “Freestyle Chess Tour” afloat deleted from its Regulations the notation to the “World Championship” title. Following this alteration successful the regulations, players wishing to enactment successful the 2025 “Freestyle Chess Tour” are nary longer required to motion the waiver note,” said the updated FIDE statement.
The Freestyle Chess Tour, a brainchild of Jan Henric Buettner and backed by the likes of Carlsen, had bene facing contention aft Carlen leaked backstage messages from FIDE president Arkady Dvorkovich and CEO Emil Sutovsky implicit assurances being fixed connected players not being affected connected taking portion successful the tour. With the circuit utilizing the rubric satellite championship, FIDE had issued a connection that players that they cannot instrumentality portion unless the circuit removes the satellite title rubric from its regulations. “In caller days, FIDE has been engaged successful extended discussions with the “Freestyle Chess Tour” regarding the imaginable designation of their lawsuit arsenic a World Championship. Despite our willingness to collaborate—including offering a waiver to the participants of the planned 2025 competition, waiving the interest for the 2025 edition, and requesting an extremity to unfounded accusations against FIDE and undermining classical chess—no statement was reached,” FIDE had stated earlier.
Earlier this week, Carlsen had shared however FIDE president and CEO had sent his begetter Texts implicit players not being affected. “Coercion of players, misuse of powerfulness and breached promises. FIDE President Dvorkovich, to person maine to play the Rapid & Blitz successful New York, you wrote Dec 19th to my father: ‘Just privation to walk a connection to you and Magnus that immoderate happens betwixt FIDE and Freestyle successful presumption of recognition, players volition NOT beryllium affected successful immoderate way. They tin determine connected their ain and FIDE volition not instrumentality immoderate antagonistic action’,” Carlsen had wrote connected X.
GM Anish Giri excessively took connected the contented aft FIDE’s latest statement. “The full Chess960 saga is simply a testament to Carlsen’s power successful the chess satellite and however helium chooses to wield it. Everyone other is watching successful sheer confusion. This is simply a ChatGPT mentation of my archetypal tweet,” Giri wrote connected X.
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