Championnat du monde: cycle 2005-2007

[Nicolas Fillion]

Bonjour,

Sur chessbase.com, on annonce que la FIDE a enfin décidé de modifier sa formule de championnat du monde knock-out. Personnellement, la formule envisagé me semble beaucoup mieux que le tournoi à 128 joueurs. Qu'est-ce que vous en pensez?

Voici le link:
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2371

Voici le sommaire des modifications que je cut/paste:

The World Chess Championship cycle 2005/07 consists of the following stages:

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National Championships, which are the responsibility of the Federations.
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Zonals and Continental Championships, which are organized by the Continents. FIDE guarantees a minimum total prize fund of US $ 175,000 for the Continental Championships (the organizers must show proof of additional sponsorship money it has raised for the prize fund). FIDE retains 20% of the prize fund, the organizers get 20% from any additional prize fund. The number of qualifiers for each continent are: Europe 46, Americas 19, Asia 19, Africa 6
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The World Chess Cup, a knockout tournament with 128 players: the World Champion, four semi-finalists from the previous World Championship, the Woman's World Champion, two World Junior U-20 Champions (2004 & 2005), 90 players from Continental Championships, twenty 20 rated players, seven FIDE presidential nominees, three organizer nominees. There will seven knockout rounds of two-game matches. The first five placed players qualify for the Candidates Matches and the next five qualify for the Last Chance Super Tournament.
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The Last Chance Super Tournament consists of ten participants: five players from the World Cup (ranked 6-10), five players by rating. Three players from this tournament qualify for the Candidates Matches.
* The Candidates Matches:
o The first round consists of five players from the World Cup, three from the Last Chance Super Tournament and the players who were ranked 3 and 4 in the World Chess Championship 2005.
o The Quarter-Final Matches are played with the five winners from the first round Candidates matches, who are joined by the player who was ranked 2 in the World Chess Championship Tournament 2005.
o The Semi-Final Matches consist of the three winners of the of the quarter-finals who are joined by the World Champion, i.e. the winner of the 2005 World Championship tournament.
o The Final Match (World Championship) is played between the two winners of the semi-final matches. The winner of the World Championship Final match becomes World Champion.

Time Control: With the exception of Zonal Tournaments, Continental Championships and World Cup, all other events (Last Chance Super Tournament and Candidates Matches) will be played with the time control of 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, 60 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game plus an additional 30 seconds per move starting from move 61.

Our careful reading of the full FIDE regulations has not revealed how long each stage of the Candidates Matches and of the World Championship Finals is. More than half of the published document that follows is devoted to details of the World Chess Cup (the knockout event). The really relevant bit, entitled "Information Regarding other World Championship Cycle Events", seems to have been tacked on rather quickly. We will provide further details as they become available.