April 17th 2018.
GM Round Robin "Petrus I-2018" - CANCELLED
Dear chess friends,
with deepest regret I need to inform you that GM Round Robin "Petrus I-2018" has to be cancelled due to unforeseen matters on which organizers were not able to make any influence.
1st Quarter FIDE Presidential Board held in Minsk, Belarus in April 7th-8th has made several decisions and one of them was related to the long term case between FIDE and Bulgarian chess federation officials. The full text of a press release was published on FIDE web site and can be seen at:
https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/10814-fide-press-release-2018-1st-quarter-presidential-board.html
I have already made agreements with few chess players from Bulgaria to play on both GM and IM Round Robin tournament. Situation became very unpleasant due to the fact that I can`t wait until evening hours of April 30th (my tournaments are scheduled to start on May 1st) and then see whether rating for Bulgarian players is included in May FRL or not.
I consider myself as responsible person and experienced organizer and I can`t decide what to do with my tournaments after finding out what are the facts in May FRL.
On the other side, my personal opinion is that Bulgarians will not submit, or will not be able to submit, all what FIDE is requesting and that I am quite sure that FIDE PB decisions will be applied. It means that I need to cancel agreements which I have made with Bulgarian players.
The whole case between FIDE and Bulgarian chess federation officials and actions which FIDE is taking against them will have many side effects and collateral damages. These Round Robin tournaments (including all players who agreed to participate) are obvious examples. I am sure that there are and that there will be many others.
Due to lack of time to find proper replacements and in order to respect players who already purchased flight tickets I am forced to cancel GM Round Robin "Petrus I-2018".
Any other decision I make will be very irresponsible and could cause even more damage.
We will hopefully organize only IM Round Robin "Petrus I-2018".
The final list of 10 players will be completed and published in few days.
IO Sasa Jevtic, Organizer
GM Round Robin "Petrus I-2018" - CANCELLED
Dear chess friends,
with deepest regret I need to inform you that GM Round Robin "Petrus I-2018" has to be cancelled due to unforeseen matters on which organizers were not able to make any influence.
1st Quarter FIDE Presidential Board held in Minsk, Belarus in April 7th-8th has made several decisions and one of them was related to the long term case between FIDE and Bulgarian chess federation officials. The full text of a press release was published on FIDE web site and can be seen at:
https://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/10814-fide-press-release-2018-1st-quarter-presidential-board.html
I have already made agreements with few chess players from Bulgaria to play on both GM and IM Round Robin tournament. Situation became very unpleasant due to the fact that I can`t wait until evening hours of April 30th (my tournaments are scheduled to start on May 1st) and then see whether rating for Bulgarian players is included in May FRL or not.
I consider myself as responsible person and experienced organizer and I can`t decide what to do with my tournaments after finding out what are the facts in May FRL.
On the other side, my personal opinion is that Bulgarians will not submit, or will not be able to submit, all what FIDE is requesting and that I am quite sure that FIDE PB decisions will be applied. It means that I need to cancel agreements which I have made with Bulgarian players.
The whole case between FIDE and Bulgarian chess federation officials and actions which FIDE is taking against them will have many side effects and collateral damages. These Round Robin tournaments (including all players who agreed to participate) are obvious examples. I am sure that there are and that there will be many others.
Due to lack of time to find proper replacements and in order to respect players who already purchased flight tickets I am forced to cancel GM Round Robin "Petrus I-2018".
Any other decision I make will be very irresponsible and could cause even more damage.
We will hopefully organize only IM Round Robin "Petrus I-2018".
The final list of 10 players will be completed and published in few days.
IO Sasa Jevtic, Organizer