2013-2014 Women's Grand Prix, Geneva

I added the crosstable for the 2013 Geneva event to my page on the 2013-2014 FIDE Women's Grand Prix. (The PGN will follow shortly.)

2013-2014 Women's Grand Prix

I added a new page for the 2013-2014 FIDE Women's Grand Prix to my index page on the World Chess Championship for Women. The first of the six Grand Prix events has already been played and the results can be found at geneva2013.fide.com. I'll add those results to my own page as soon as I can.

The official site for the 2013 Geneva event included a new FIDE logo that I don't remember seeing before. I've copied it to this post.

More Cumulative Scores

When I prepared the Cumulative Scores for the early candidates tournaments, and later for the 2013 London Candidates, I overlooked the two most recent World Championship tournaments,

• 2005 San Luis, and
• 2007 Mexico City.

While I was preparing those, I realized I had no tiebreak info for 2007 Mexico City, and will add it ASAP.

2012-2013 Grand Prix, Zug

I added the crosstable for the 2013 Zug event to my page on the 2012-2013 Grand Prix. (The PGN will follow shortly.)

The second edition of the FIDE Grand Prix has been just as chaotic as the first (see 2008-2009 Grand Prix for background and links). I last commented on the situation in a post on London Candidates - First Week, but much has happened since then and I haven't found the time to dissect the changes. In any case, the situation is certain to continue evolving. I'll add relevant links to the page on the 2012-2013 Grand Prix -- and maybe do a post here -- as soon as I can.

2013 Anand - Carlsen (in India?)

I added a page on the forthcoming 2013 Anand - Carlsen title match to my main World Chess Championship index page. The new page is little more than a stub, but I expect lots of news over the next six months.

Why would FIDE want to award the organization of the match without a bidding process? Didn't they learn anything from the disastrous schism that was the result of the flawed award in 1993? See FIDE/PCA Chronology for more about those dark days that resulted in a lost decade for world class chess players.