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Thibault de Vassal    (2008-11-25)
FIDE Grand Prix

No more FIDE Grand Prix in Doha (Qatar), so why not Elista... The FIDE world championship still in question, John Nunn's views and so on :

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=5033


Normajean Yates    (2008-11-25 20:10:43)
Nunn's suggestion is sound...

Sound suggestion in broad outline: may be some of the details could be improved -

e.g. one potentionally contentious point: how much should the activity bonus be? -

Case in point: Fischer before the 1972 World Chamionships was largely 'inactive' for several years. Turns out one of the things he was doing was playing game after game against himself: an extremely strenuous thing to do...