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Today we received the following message from Bessel Kok and Pavel Matocha, officially confirming a rumour that had been circulating for some days now. It concerns the sixth FIDE Grand Prix tournament that was supposed to be held in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic.
Bessel Kok and Pavel Matocha issue following statement We have been informed that the NWR coal corporation which intended to support the Grand Prix in Karlovy Vary in December 2009 will not enter into sponsorship. This information and the reasons behind this decision were already communicated to Geoffrey Borg and FIDE and also to grandmaster David Navara, who was nominated by the Czech organisers to Grand Prix tournaments. There are multiple reasons for this decision:
In Prague on the 19th of January 2009 |
Last February FIDE announced the following dates and venues for the 2008/2009 Grand Prix Tournaments:
1 | 2008 | April 20th | May 6th | Baku, Azerbaijan |
2 | 2008 | July 30th | August 15th | Krasnoyarsk – held in Sochi |
3 | 2008 | December 13th | December 29th | Doha, Qatar – moved to Elista, Kalmykia |
4 | 2009 | April 14th | April 28th | Montreux, Switzerland – cancelled |
5 | 2009 | August 1st | August 17th | Elista, Russia |
6 | 2009 | December 7th | December 23rd | Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic – cancelled |
Reserve cities are Istanbul and Teheran. |