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Stefan Sergiev, the president of the Bulgarian Chess Federation, is definitely the media star of the national sports media these days. On Wednesday he announced at a special press conference the "news" that Topalov and Stefanova will be at the World Mind Sports Games (quotes used because Chessdom published the info a month ago)
Two days later Sergiev sent a letter to the FIDE President Kirsan Ilymzhinov regarding the Kamsky - Topalov match, scheduled to take place in Lvov in November 2008.
The news count in online newspapers for the WMSG is over 100 articles, while the letter has been detected at 50 sources.
But what a day expected Stefan Sergiev on Saturday! His letter turned out to be translated incorrectly by the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency and Bgnes. The translation almost brought an unwanted scandal by calling the match between Kramnik and Anand "semi final" and by entering more factual mistakes.
On top of that the news that Topalov will not play at the World Mind Sports Games came to the Chessdom email this morning. Topalov will skip the event due to force major situation, not connected to chess. With that new explanations will be needed for the mainstream media, why the info spread by Sergiev and the Bulgarian Chess Federation will not be the same next week.
With Topalov not going to the World Mind Sports Games, the Chinese GM Wang Yue will be the top seeded player at the event. He will be joined by 3 more 2700+ player - GM Leinier Dominguez, GM Ni Hua, and Bu Xiangzhi. In the women section top seeded will be Yifan Hou and she will be joined by Antoaneta Stefanova, Zhao Xue, and the World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk. In total more than 100 chess players will be present at the competition.
Where will the rest of the top players be at the same time?
About the same time the European club Cup will take place in kallithea. In total 600+ players will participate with the fantastic 20 players over 2700 and 80 players 0ver 2600. You can check out the participants lists here.
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