The CCC Post # 2 ( Week of March 2 - 15/12 ).

[Bob Armstrong]

The CCC Post # 2 ( Week of March 2 - 15/12 ).

FIDE, after consultations with AGON, its new partner for organizing the World Chess Championship Cycle, is pleased to announce a draft calendar of event dates for the next two [ world championship ] cycles over four years. Once finalized, FIDE and AGON intend to retain the 2014-15 competition schedule as the model for the indefinite future.

2012
Championship Moscow May 10 – May 30
Olympiad Istanbul August 27 – September 10
Grand Prix Chelyabinsk September 19 – October 3
Candidates London October 24 – November 12
Grand Prix Tashkent November 21 - Dec 4

2013
Grand Prix Lisbon April 10 – April 24
Grand Prix Madrid May 22 – June 4
Grand Prix Berlin July 3 – July 17
World Cup Tromsø, Norway August 10 – September 5
Grand Prix Paris September 18 – October 2
Championship TBD October – November, TBD

2014
Grand Prix TBD May 14 – May 28
Grand Prix TBD July 2 – July 16
Olympiad Tromsø, Norway August 1 – August 14
Grand Prix TBD September 10 – September 24
Candidates TBD November 5 – November 24

2015
Grand Prix TBD May 13 – May 27
Grand Prix TBD July 1 – July 15
World Cup TBD August
Grand Prix TBD September 9 – September 23
Championship TBD November 4 – November 25

One thing I don't understand: why such a long time period between the 2012 Candidates tournament in London, and the 2013 World Championship match in TBD? And it is also a year between the 2014 Candidates tournament and the 2015 World Championship Match?

Any comments on FIDE's schedule, or my question?

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[Ernest Klubis]

Re: The CCC Post # 2 ( Week of March 2 - 15/12 ).

The CCC Post # 2 ( Week of March 2 - 15/12 ).

Any comments on FIDE's schedule, or my question?

Bob, your valid questions has been answered by Andrew Paulson in his interview with Raymond Keene.

First, the World Chess Championship Cycle has to be made understandable and predictable (to the public and to the players). We have fixed the period of the cycle (two years), clarified the path up the ladder to the Championship Match (via one World Cup, six Grand Prix and a Candidates Tournament), and set regular dates for the events: exact dates for 2012-2015, and assuming that these prove optimal, maintaining the pattern indefinitely into the future.

Second, the events will be held in World Cities which will glorify chess, rather than in small towns that see chess events as an opportunity to promote themselves or local players on the world stage. The theme of the first year is a European Tour: Moscow, London, Lisbon, Madrid, Paris and Berlin. Each succeeding year we will take the cycle to a different continent so as to make it easier to mobilize national/regional enthusiasm, thus eventually bringing chess to the whole world on a regular basis.

Third, the entire Cycle will be conceived as a whole by one hand, not by a committee and a mishmash of conflicting interests. Design, format, and communication will be be focused and consistent. The brand of World Chess and what it stands for must become clearer in everyone’s minds: players’, spectators’, sponsors’. Journalists in both the specialist and generalist media must be supported in every way possible so as to make their work more vital to their editors and publishers, easier for them to produce in high quality, and richer for their readers.

Fourth, we are working on a new ‘format’ to mediate the events for live spectators and for retransmission online (and broadcast) to make the games more understandable and exciting for the general public. Every game is like a musical score for a new, unique composition in a notation that is impenetrable to most people. The two players are creating this score in real time before our eyes. To make it entertaining to a general audience, this composition must be mediated by a dramatic performance -- comments, interpretation, statistics, esthetics and interactivity -- performed, providing direct access to the drama of the game, and pleasure.

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