[chessmind] Dennis Monokroussos: Shirov: "Nobody can wait forever"

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Posted by Dennis Monokroussos:
Shirov: "Nobody can wait forever"
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1212075272.shtml


   Ohhhhh, this is rich. Here's a press release from Alexei Shirov:

     With this short press release I would like to bring attention to
     the following facts:

     1. In spite of having passed all the possible deadlines, FIDE still
     has not announced the venue of the match Topalov-Kamsky. That means
     that the match should normally take place in Bulgaria because the
     Lvov offer seems not to have been materialized.

     2. Mr. Gata Kamsky has declared that he does not wish to play in
     Bulgaria. According to the match regulations he should be replaced
     by me in this case.

     3. It is absolutely clear that the silence and uncertainty should
     end and the firm decision about the forthcoming match should be
     taken. Nobody can wait forever and this concerns the reserve
     players as well.

     Alexei Shirov, Tarragona, 29.05.2008

   It's true that Kamsky needs to make a decision. There are no real
   organizational offers except to play in Bulgaria, so Kamsky must
   either reconcile to playing in his opponent's home country, drop out,
   or find some alternative organizer to propose something by yesterday,
   figuratively speaking. On the other hand, Shirov's haste to throw
   Kamsky under the bus is incredible. When the similarly situated
   Kramnik played Kasparov, two years after the failure to organize a
   Kasparov-Shirov match, he became persona non grata to Shirov. But now,
   just a few weeks after the original deadline, Shirov writes that
   "[n]obody can wait forever". Wow. If it had been Kramnik's fault that
   the Kasparov-Shirov match didn't occur, then there wouldn't be any
   inconsistency in Shirov's position, but it wasn't.

   Am I missing something obvious here? Just to clarify: my view is that
   he can criticize Kramnik or want Kamsky pushed aside, but not both -
   at least not consistently. Finally, while I didn't really think it
   would come to this, the current denouement was forecast on this blog a
   couple of months ago, [1]here.

References

   1. http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/posts/1206729780.shtml