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FIDE vice president and All India Chess Federation secretary P.T. Ummer Koya told The Hindu here on Friday, shortly before leaving for Doha, that the unification plan was one of the main issues on the agenda. "We hope we will be able to include more top players for the unification match,'' he said. It may be recalled that in the treaty, signed among others by FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Garry Kasparov and Vladmir Kramnik in Prague on May 6, there was no place in the proposed new World championship for many of the world's top players like former World champions Viswanathan Anand and Alexander Khalifman. That plan — involving just 11 players — had invited criticism from across the chess world. Interestingly, Kramnik himself has called for a more inclusive plan. According to the Prague treaty, Kasparov would meet Ruslan Ponomariov in one match and in the other; Kramnik would face the winner of the Dortmund tournament (July 6 to 21). The winners of these two matches would play for title of the World champion. But in a recent statement, Kramnik has said: "I hope that the FIDE cycle will be more inclusive than currently proposed and consist of more than one match between Ruslan Ponomariov and Garry Kasparov. A solution which included more players would be better suited to the principles FIDE has followed in recent years.'' The World No. 2 also makes it clear that he hasn't given up the title of Classical World chess champion, which is based on 116 years of chess history and which is also respected in the Prague agreement. "My match against the winner of the Candidates tournament in Dortmund will be a Classical World championship final and not a semifinal. I made some concessions at Prague, which have never been made by Classical World champion before in order to support the unification process. These were; accepting Ruslan Ponomariov as a World chess champion and therefore giving up draw odds from the unification match onward and giving up my right to be seeded automatically into the finals of future cycles.''
2006 Olympiad: Italy v India
Mr. Koya will present a report on the bid from AICF to host the 2006 Olympiad, which Italy is also interested in. FIDE Deputy president G. Makropoulos, in fact, would be presenting his report on his inspection report to Turin at the meeting. "But I am confident that India would get the nod from FIDE,'' Mr. Koya said. "We had staged the World championship in New Delhi successfully, and FIDE was extremely happy with that. The AICF has been ensured the full support by the Indian Government to bid for the Olympiad. So we are indeed very keen to bring the Olympiad to India. By 2006 India would definitely be among the medal contenders.''
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