Anand to get rightful place in revised list

Principal Correspondent
The Hindu
Monday, April 2, 2007

Kozhikode: "Pleased to inform you we will rate Linares
today. Congratulations to Anand, you and the AICF." That
was the SMS received by the All India Chess Federation
Secretary D.V. Sundar from Casto Abundo, of the FIDE Titles
and Rating Committee, Athens, on Sunday. What it means is
that Viswanathan Anand will be the new World No. 1, after
all.

FIDE, the world chess governing body, had on March 31
released its April rating list, which had Anand at No. 2
and Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov at the top. That was because
FIDE hadn't considered the performances of the players at
the Linares tournament while it prepared the latest list.
That was a bit surprising because ever since the April
lists came into being in 2001, all the lists until last
year had included Linares, though the deadline FIDE has set
for submission of April lists is February 28, while the
Linares event concluded on March 10.

The AICF had a point when it took up the matter with FIDE.

"We wanted to know why Linares was excluded from the April
list only this year and requested its officials to take
corrective measures," D.V. Sundar said. "I am happy that a
corrected list will be published soon. I had also spoken to
FIDE Qualification Commission chairman Mikko Markkula about
this. I told the officials at FIDE that Viswanathan Anand
could not be denied his rightful place. I was assured that
the correction would be made soon."

The corrected list -- after including Linares -- will see
Anand move to No. 1 and Topalov at No. 2. Anand had won at
Linares, while Topalov had finished seventh in a field of
eight.

It would have been extremely unfair to Anand if FIDE hadn't
reacted to the AICF's protests; after all FIDE doesn't
update the ranking list every week, it does that only once
in three months.

And there have been only five players including Topalov,
who became the World No. 1 in chess.

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