Dear Mr. Topalov

Save the flaming for other threads, please. This may be obsolete any second now, but I thought it was worth a shot. Thanks, Mig

Note you can just use your email in the comment form and it is spam-proof.

Stephen Weinstein
United States

gumyin@blueyonder.co.uk

Leonidas Evagelidis
Thessaloniki, Greece

Axel Moser,

Heidelberg, Germany

Charles Milton Ling
cmling@teleweb.at
Vienna, Austria

You have the respect of the fans of the chess world as a player, fighter, and sportman.

Completely wrong.

Z Kashner
Brooklyn, NY USA

Kensy
UK

Rob Vikk,
Denmark
BahimirVikk@gmail.com

Alan Benson
aka: Malthrope
Berkeley, CA / USA
marspolaris@netscape.com

PS: Thanks Mig for posting this open letter. :-)

Sridhar Vijendran
India

USA

Roger Wiberg
Sweden

Finland

USA

Chess Auditor
Montreal, Canada

[It is fortunate Carlsen is not playing or Topalov would claim bathroom breaks were diaper changes.]

Shane Bonetti
Australia

Kudos for the gesture MIG but I can not support the statement. Topalov should realize that he has lost the respect of the entire chess world. And if this was all cooked up by Danailov, his only face saving attempt would be to fire that intriguer!

Uzbekistan

Dear Mr Topalov.
1. Finish the match from 1-3.
2. Save what of you can of your reputation by
hire a new manager. Mr Danailov will be
totally out of business after this is over
something you will understand by sharing the
reactions of thousands of chessfans over the
world.
3. Let the best man win. Just like the good old
days.

Love your chess.

/Thomas

Dear Mr Topalov.
1. Finish the match from 1-3.
2. Save what of you can of your reputation by
hire a new manager. Mr Danailov will be
totally out of business after this is over
something you will understand by sharing the
reactions of thousands of chessfans over the
world.
3. Let the best man win. Just like the good old
days.

Love your chess.

/Thomas

Amit Kureel
India

Peter Doggers, The Netherlands

Yes, do the right thing. Resume the match with game 5.

Do the right thing, Veselin, and play chess not politics...

Ireland

Geof Strayer
USA

USA

Laurent S.
saltoflife@wananopamdoo.fr
France,

Kai Schröder
Germany

Timo Pääkkönen, Finland.

Just one thing: We don't NEED this match - Topalov and FIDE need it.

Mihalis Lerakis
bck@dotsoft.gr
Greece

Dominic Ménard
dmenardmba@yahoo.ca
Montreal, Canada

Andrew Dimond

Michigan, USA

European Union

Dear Mr. Topalov,

I love chess. We want you to agree to 3 1 score and resumption of match at Game 5. You will restore some respect by doing this. The chess world awaits. Our patience, however, is growing thin.

Be responsible! Try your best to win!

Respectfully,
Mikenas of ICC

European Union

Gerard de Ridder, The Netherlands

T. Cutler
USA

Jeff Peterson, USA
jpete@optonline.net

M. Nash
UK

Agree wholeheartedly

Austin ,TX
USA

notice how Garry's personal cheerleader Mig writes to Topalov, not both. Move to Russia Mig!

Maliq Soter
zulukingomen@yahoo.com
Columbus, OH, USA

Kyle Askine
USA

Nikita Lukish
nlukish@mail.ru
Ukraine

Georgi Tomov
Bulgaria

Andreas Hofmann
Berlin, Germany

Seattle, WA, USA

R. Johnson
USA

John Anagnost
Los Angeles, California

Getting lots of press, how about some press about games played.

I know the match will continue at 3-1 scoreline, but to lose 3 days and for chess to suffer this kind of embarassment is simply astonishing!! I would like to hear more from Garry Kasparov, also Anatoly Karpov, and even Bobby Fischer. Mig, please see what you can do.

Shahar Tzafrir
Israel
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I do hope this match continues.

Robert Coleman
New Orleans, LA

"You have the respect of the fans of the chess world as a player, fighter, and sportsman."

I don't agree with this statement. He needs to turn done the point in order to regain the respect of the fans (me at least).

Dear Mr. Topalov,
I have been an admirer of your chess. I admit that the amount of time Kramnik spend in the washroom is highly unusual. Perhaps, allow each player to still have their own washrooms and have a neutral arbiter. I think the match should continue at 1-3. Like many readers, you and the chess world want you to win on the board not through politics.
Chien Pham, Mississauga, Canada

Dear Mr Topalov.
1. End the match from 1-3.
2. Save what of you can of your reputation by
hire a new manager. Mr Danailov will be
totally out of business after this one is over!
something you will understand by sharing the
reactions of thousands of chessfans over the
world.
3. Let the best horse win the race!

Dcax, copicat

Austen Green
Dallas, Texas, United States

dont be a menace

Dear Mr. Topalov,
I am an admirer of your chess. Please continue to play chess and start at 1-3.
Chien Pham, Canada

Romania

Denis Zorenko
Nürnberg, Germany

Do the right thing, and good luck in the rest of the games.

Dear Mr Topalov

I agree with Mig's letter.

But in case his implication wasn't clear, I want to add that you are probably the most disliked chess player in the world at this moment. And your one chance to be forgiven is to continue this match with the score at 3-1.

-Tom.

Mark Howitt

United Kingdom

Sorry i've forgot these:

Dcax,Ducloux Gerald, France, copicat

;o)

Mark Howitt

United Kingdom

Do the right thing. Play on from 3-1.

As a good sportsman, accept the score on games played and play by the rules agreed for this match. Accept the challenge and do your best to break through the wall. It's not impossible.

Frank McFadden
DC, USA

I wonder why the same petition is not issued for Kramnik to accept 3-2 and play on. Isn't that easier if you guys really want the "good of chess" and the match to be continued?

dear Mr Topalov,

In case you are reading this blog, and in case, assuming you are, you give a rodent's butt what people say, please do the right thing. Thank you.

MS, US

Glenn
USA

Like most observers and fans of chess, for sometime now it was my feeling that Topalov has been a fantastic champion and a great chess fighter. A real breath of fresh air and a worthy successor to The Great Kasparov. And if anyone was likely to make a comeback after the first two losses it would be Topalov. Based on just the chess so far I think he really could do it and would be all the more admired for it.

Now in light of the nonsense that has unfolded I am sinking into disillusionment at the specter that has got worse in the last couple of days. Whatever about being annoyed at Kramniks behavior, the fact is, that the notion that Topalov would try to claim a point by default instead of on the chess board is sickening and about as stupid as it gets. There is simply no reasonable claim to keep that default and it is truly bad form to even use it as any kind of bargaining chip. For the sake of your own reputation and that of chess do the decent thing And get back to the chess board pronto.

Seems to me that all that needs to be done to save this whole problem is to FIRE that waster of a manager and get back to playing chess. Basically it seems that if the two players were left to their own devices we would not be in the situation we are in now.

If Topalov refuses to play the match at 1-3 he should be stripped of his Fide crown and the winner be declared as Kramnik.

If he agrees to resume then we are allin for a great chess contest which despite the 2 point lead would actually be wide open.

It's a forced move Mr Topalov, your queen (aka Danailov) is hanging. Take it back or sac it!

cadlag

USA

Dear Topalov.
I suggest you get rid of that leeching scum manager/daddy of yours and start acting like an independent grown-up. Quit the Danailoving and start play chess!!
/Rob

Joseph Thomas
USA

Let's see some chess again!
Michal Urban, Canada

Show some class and win your points at the board.

Lars Pedersen, Denmark.

You won a point by default on a complaint that have since been proven null and void. Act like the champion and representative to the chess world you are - give the point back and get back to playing some of the best chess the world has ever seen!

Mr Topalov!

Stop dirty tricks now. Play chess. Your're old enough.

Dr. Love

Do the right thing and we will love you eternally, Veselin!

Jens Petersson
Sweden
jens.sa.petersson@telia.com

Please! (Also, go ahead and play 1. e4... then 2. f4!!)

-Matt Phelps, matt@mattphelps.com
USA

Matīss Sīlis, Latvia

Dresden, Germany

I'm afraid I'm not so gracious as you, Mig. I will not sign my name to anything which gives a positive appraisal of Topalov's character or sportsmanship.

parrot9
Leeds, England

Hope the match will continue, and that Topalov gives back the point and that both players will behave like gentlemen and the champions they are, shake hands etc...

Mr. Adalsteinn Thorarensen, Reykjavik,
Iceland.

Mr. Topolov,

Your reputation has been severely damaged world wide from this incident. Please try and redeem what is left and continue the match with the proper score of 3:1.

chesstraveler
USA
chesstraveler@sbcglobal.net

Please Topalov, show Kramnik that you are also a man of honor, and in doing so you might get the psychological advantage aswell as keeping your reputation as a honorable fighter intact.

Konstantinos
Athens, Greece

Jonathan Leathwood, Denver, USA

USA

a real champion, making general consensus, should win on the board. please play

españa

Dear Grandmaster Topalov:
I have admired your fighting chess for many years. You know that the only victories worth anything are those won over the board. Please give back the forfeit point and let the match continue.

Alan Laverty
Austin, Texas, USA
alaverty@onr.com

Brian Gallagher,
Dublin,
Ireland

Come on, Vaselin! Be a sport and give back that point.

Come on, Vaselin! Be a sport and give back that point.

United States

Peter Gan,
Birmingham,
United Kingdom

Iceland

A difficult situation, the forfeit is not exactly Topalov's fault, as Mig says. But as he surely wants to beat Kramnik at the board rather than because of technicalities like this, giving back the point can not be that difficult. It was not earned in any way, so why insist on keeping what you did not properly deserve?

On the other hand, just as well Kramnik could let him keep the point and crush him regardless, but for Kramnik it seems a matter of principle and again, Topalov doesn't deserve the point, so...

Dear Mr. Topalov,
Thank you for the incredible display of fighting chess you have shown us. This is what inspires us lowly chess players all over the world. And we all know that games are won or lost otb , not in political arenas. Show the whole world what a truly remarkable player you are and what you sought to be. Show us how a world champion should carry himself, by winning the title otb . Thank you

Peter Petrov

Sofia, Bulgaria

Anton Nilsson
Sweden

Rome, Italy

P.S. I fully agree with the tone and contents of Mig's letter, and believe that the people on this page who have expressed their opinions in an insulting way should not appear as co-signers of this petition.

Agree with Mig 100%. Mr. Topalov, please try to do what Garry and Leko couldn't do OTB. Thanks.

Damien Lawrie

Australian in Texas, USA.

Chicago, USA

Signed.

VA, USA.

Martin Hansen
Copenhagen, Denmark

Los Angeles, California USA

Czech Republic

Mr. Topalov,

You are a great player, and the chess world admires your courageous and fighting playing style. Accepting "free" points is against your character and makes you appear conniving and weak. You would better serve your reputation by either winning or losing the match purely over the board.

Curt Collyer

Mr. Topalov,

You are a great player, and the chess world admires your courageous and fighting playing style. Accepting "free" points is against your character and makes you appear conniving and weak. You would better serve your reputation by either winning or losing the match purely over the board.

Curt Collyer

Minneapolis, MN USA

Minneapolis, MN USA

I fully agree with Mig.

Minneapolis, MN USA

I fully agree with Mig.

Mathieu Horeau France
I think Topalov should also think that many people remember Mats Willander not only for his great skills (for example). He gave back a match point in a final of a grand-chelem tournament. this made his fair play legendary. Topalov could become a legend the other way. (Sorry, my english is bad.)
Come on topy, you could also feel stronger by being fair!! Please think about it!

Shame on you topalov

If you play from 3-1 and get rid of that sleeze Danailov, you shall be considered redeemed.

I dont support Topalov in this match but I do support the intention of the above letter in calling for the sides to sort it out and continue the match playing game 5 again for fairness. This match was designed to see who was best over the board in 12 games plus tiebreaks. This must remain the case.

Mr Topalov, please stop your off-the-board madness and continue the match from game 5 tomorrow. We want to see chess, not silly politics. The only way you will be world champion is by beating Kramnik at the board.

Cincerely,
Christoffer Parelius, Norway

Mr. Topalov,

I had great respect for your chess and fighting spirit. Please play game 5 and stop the mind games.

Carsten Steinebach
USA

Michael Aigner
Davis, CA

Play the game. Sack Danailov.

Yura
Canada

Kalina, Bulgaria.

Right now, I don't respect Topalov at all, but Mig is right that he should accept to replay the fifth game, so I decided to support this petition. I hope it brings some good results, but with Danailov on the loose I doubt it.

Dimitri Reinderman
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Mr. Topalov,

We all expect you to play game 5.
Show your best style !!!

Stephan Buchal, Germany

Lu A. Tahmazyan
Los Angeles, USA

Xmas obo Playchess.com

Sara Walsh
North Carolina, USA

I expect to see the natural continuation with 3:1 and some beautiful chess

Grenoble, France

Ed Gaillard
USA

Eydun Lamhauge, Faroe Islands

Tom Dichiaro
USA

Dear Veselin:
I agree with MIGS. No one will perceive as a world champion after losing 3 t 1 over the board and having an overall minus 7 score against Kramnik.
Get out there and show us some of your magic.

Armando Covarrubias
Mexico

Grandmaster Topalov,

I concur with Mr. Greengard. Please finish this for the sake of chess.

Ricardo Aparicio
Victoria, TX, USA

Okechukwu Iwu

Duluth, MN, USA

Philip Zhou
San Diego, CA, USA

Norway

Veselin:

I hailed you as the true champion when you won in San Luis. I was so happy to see you win. I have supported you up to this disgraceful time. Your behavior has shown your true personality.

Topalov don't give the point back. allow Kirsan to strip you of your title. allow fide to dump you. it will allow all good tournament organizers to pass you up on all invitations. it will allow all chess players to refuse to play you.

You will already have played your last game of chess. You can retire from chess and go find a job.

It will be wonderful. we will be done with you and your bosom buddy Danailov. You will become simply a black hole in the history of chess.

does it really matter if fide declares Kramnik as the unified champion with a winning score of 3-1 or 3-2. the effect is the same.

And now I will hide my head in shame that I was a fan of Topalov. Never again. You have thrown away your honor.

Vesselin, everyone now thinks you're a fraud. Prove them wrong. Chess greatly needs your fighting spirit. It is also greatly harmed by all of your manager's cheap trickery. Take yourself a stand.

Flavio Klemperer
Switzerland

Clifton Burdette
United States

Gunnar Bjornsson
Iceland

21:00h: Elista time

ITAR-TASS is reporting that the Tolapov team has issued a threat to abandon the World Champship match if the forfeit of Kramnik in game five is repealed. This is according to an announcement by Topalov's manager, Silvio Danailov. According to Danailov the 3:2 result has already been fixed by judges and cannot be changed.

Get serious Veselin... act like a sportsman. you should't even consider taking that point

Dear Mr. Topalov:

I have long admired your talent and ability in chess. I hope the outcome of the World Championship will be determined on the board, rather than through the situation that has developed the last few days.

With that in mind, I ask that the match be resumed with a score of 3-1.

Thank you,

Thomas Hendrich
Philadelphia, PA USA

Moab, Utah, USA

Dear Mig,

I welcome your efforts to save what can still be saved, Mig, and the promess of watching the games of this reunification match was something I was really happy and excited about.

So OK for the match to go on, but NOT AT ANY PRICE, please, and I could not disagree more with your: "We understand that the forfeit was not your fault."

Excuse me but first, who are "WE" ? Not me, for God’s sake ! I sincerely hope you don't actually think you are talking in the name of the whole chess community.
Second step: Are you serious? Do you really think all this buffoonery might have occurred without Topalov's agreement if not will in first hand? Please.
Third: The guy is smart enough to know that more than 90% of the chessplanet think he is a cheater (I feel sorry for the 10% left). He got some informations about his opponent through the video tapes which might have given him some edge during the games, right? Kramnik did not know that and did not get the same service, right? At least all this nonsense was ruled in the hope Topalov can get one point and put some pressure on Kramnik, right? So, to make a long story short, he tried to steal the point, right? And he might have proved himself right if Kramnik had not shown the necessary stamina to fight back.
So all right if the 5th game is played tomorrow, but please don't give him any credit for that nor the idea he's a hero for getting back to business for which he gets good money (and God i sincerely hope Kramnik is going to crush him one or two more times by the way). I, like many other chessplayers of the world, was impressed many times by the quality of his moves, but this is not the point. We are talking about the person here.
So yes he will fire Danialov some day, yes he will explain he was wrong to listen too much to this guy, and yes we will pretend to believe this is a good enough explanation for this toiletgate variation of his. But please, no more roses for the time being, because the man hasn’t deserved any empathy so far.
Sincerely yours,
Michko

Stefan Fischl
Vienna, Austria

Ow, ow, I see I forgot to sign properly...
Michko, Saint Maur, France

Dustin van Weersel
Etten-Leur, The Netherlands

Dustin van Weersel
Etten-Leur, The Netherlands

Thomas Powers
USA

well ,for me you wont be the same topalov again,but still you could be near !

Roktim Bandyopadhyay

India

D.B. Wakefield

Troy, New York, USA

I think Kramnik should accept 3-2, for he was the one that didn't show up to play game 5, people seem to forget that Topalov was at the table ready to play even though he wasn't happy with the ruling.
I don't understand why everyone is jumping on Topalov when it was Kramnik that didn't show up to play, and started all this by going to the bathroom, the only place without cameras, before every move...

Mig why dont u send a similar letter to kramnik too? from what you wrote it was him who turned down the very (in my opinion) fair compromise to resume from 3:1 but with the match extended to 16 games. both players are responsable for the current situation and both have to make concessions to solve it.

Roberto Balzan
Roma, Italy

Kelvin Xu
Toronto, Canada

Remigiusz Jarzebski
Poznan, Poland

Mr Topalov,

You are a proven champion and among the highest representatives of our sport. Show the world your professionalism and strength of character.

Contine the match from 3-1, and beat him!

John Crawford
Houston, Texas, USA

Sameer Arora
UK

A very fair proposal you say gilles ? Finding yourself at -2 with 8 games to play, create havoc and then you end up with -2 but with 12 to play instead ? That to you sounds fair to the opponent ? What more of a reward could Danailov claim for his trickery ?

Hey Kholmatov,

who are you? A friend of Danailov? What did Kramnik do wrong? NOTHING at all! And Danailov? Here is the truth: He's probably the greatest cheater in history of chess!

Dr. Love

Do the right thing. Play on from 3-1.

Veselin, please think about this from the BIG perspective: how do you want history to view you? As a sportsman as well as a great player and champion, or as someone who took the "low road"? Another way of looking at it: if it were 2 other players, and you were just a spectator/fan, wouldn't you want the match to be decided at the board, by the moves, rather than by side issues?! Especially since the alleged problem may be due to your opponent's illness, which he is naturally sensitive (and therefore understandably defensive) about.
You have a chance to change history here, by standing up for yourself - as opposed to your manager's manipulative tactics - and doing the right thing. Not only will you gain the respect of the chess community, but that of the world at large, and, I suspect, your own conscience as well.

Richard Fireman
USA

If you don't agree, don't sign. Simple! Please rant in another thread, thanks.

Greg Van Scoy, USA

Paul Monsky

U.S.

Douglas A. Gray, USA

Dear Mr. Topalov,

despite your phenomenal rating, you need to finish this match much more than Mr. Kramnik. If the match ends with the current score of 1:3, you will lend the ultimate legitimacy to the claim that Mr. Kramnik is the genuine World Champion indeed.

Duncan Vella
Malta

Hola Veselin.
Se que hablas espanol y muy bien. Leo con tristeza que casi todos en el mundo estan hablando mas mal de ti que del GM ruso. Sabes? una forma de taparles la boca es anular la quinta partida y seguir jugando, eso confirmaria tu don de gente.
No se si leeras o no este mensaje pero te deseo lo mejor. Ojala tomes la mejor decision. Te escribe Rafael Llanos, peruano, residente en Texas. Que Dios te ilumine.
Rafael.

Andreas Schwartmann
Cologne, GER

Ryan Ashton
United Kingdom

Todd Reynolds
USA

Andrew Boho
Anoka, Minnesota, USA

Well, thanks to the "Toiletgate" the WCC has even made it into the Sunday newspapers of New Zealand! Congratulations Mr Topalov, you have hightened the status of the game.
Please restart the game at 1-3!
Regards,
Xavier
Auckland

Graham Glen
Canada

Telmo Escobar
La Plata, Argentina

Grow up Mr.Topalov , dont belive ur manager
India

Fabio Vinicius Binder
fbinder@gmail.com
Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

i agree with Michko.
/Ron

Thank you Mr. Topalov and Mr. Danailov for the amazing worldwide publicity that you have attracted to this match. You chose an especially amusing subject as the focus, clearly a reflection of brilliant minds at work! Lesser minds are having a field day with the Water(closet)gate Scandal, and even in the far corners of the world there are floodtides of strong opinions. This is exactly the kind of media exposure that the chess community has so desperately needed. It is unfortunate, however, that the cost of all this attention has been so much scorn heaped upon the two of you. When the match resumes (presumably from 3-1), may your chess skills be in their finest form, allowing you to redeem yourself in the world's eyes by virtue of your phenomenal genius.

Damian Nash
Moab, Utah, USA

Dear Veselin, please continue the match from 1:3 and start in with Game 5 tomorrow. We're interested in seeing that closing streak you've demonstrated in tournaments work in a match environment. And when it start anew, please offer you handshake to Vladamir to put this behind you and bring the Action where it belongs - over the board!

Michael Sedayao
San Diego, CA

Baqir Qizilbash
Canada

Veselin,

Restart the match tomorrow with 5 game from 1:3 position and show the world that your closing prowess works in match-play as well as tournaments. And offer a handshake to Vladamir to put this whole episode behind you and return the action to where it belongs - over the board!

Michael Sedayao
San Diego, CA

Michael Duke

Scotland

Hello Veselin,

It was important of Mig to highlight that we don't really know what is happening over there, but the pivotal issue appears to be crystal clear. You and your team have an opportunity to give back something that is not rightfully yours, and regain some respect from thousands of dillusioned fans.

Kramnik did not sign the moveless scoresheet that now threatens to sink the match. In unusual circumstances, like this one, it is quite legitimate for a result to be annulled.

I can see why it does not appear to be in your interest to give the point from round five back, but your interest goes beyond the immediate score or even the current match. Your interest extends to the worldwide image of chess, which has now reached its nadir, and we need your leadership to lift us out of this impasse.

You may feel like you should let your team make such decisions for you, so that you can concentrate fully on the moves on the board. Until now, this strategy seems to have worked well for you, for it has allowed you to reach the zenith of world chess with sensational play that is an inspiration to Grandmasters and amateurs alike.

But you are the leader of your team. You are, or at least should be, the boss. You cannot hide behind the people around you, who claim to be serving your interests, but may in fact be letting you down.

Please do the right thing.

Jonathan.

Topalov, BE A MAN and continue the match 3-1

DOES THE WORLD TITLE MEAN SO LITTLE TO YOU THAT YOU WOULD SEE IT SO DEVALUED!!

"Yes, Chess"
Dale Lichtblau
Reston, Virginia, USA

Artur Bartmann Arns
Brasil

elizabeth vicary
brooklyn, new york
usa

Dear Mr Topalov

Ignore all those biased and insulting people. To hell with all these selfish patzers who only consider about themselves and their own enjoyment. Just sit down and ask your conscience what is the right thing to do, then do it.

Kakeru

Topplev Fischer needs to pack up his things and go home. He's already quit trying being down 2-0 with 2 draws and does not have enough "man" juice to overcome that deficit with only 8 games left. Booby "Idiot" Fishead would be back on the plane home by now. I think VT is already making reservations as I type this. I've played enough prima donnas on ICC and the like in tournaments to know when a loser quits, he quits like a ball of flames...here's to Kramnik for retaining his title and now it's time to put pressure on our 14th Champion to let Kasparov get a return match like every champion has been allowed to do since the beginning of time (one exception though, Botvinnik didn't get his with Tiger, but I don't think Mikhail really thought he had a chance). Bye-bye Loser, or prove me wrong and "man up" and continue the match 3-1...

The Netherlands

Kirk Gornall
Vancouver
Canada

Wim Martens
Brussels, Belgium

Daniel Clancy
United States

James Plaskett
livinginspain@hotmail.com

Tor Rustad
Norway

Gilles Barneaud, Paris, France.

Mathieu Pouydesseau
Berlin Germany

Dear Veselin:
Let CHESS go on, not dirty tricks!
And should you no longer believe in your chances to win at the board, be the sportsman you used to be and just show the audience some more great fighting games! because this title is not the most important thing in live, but all the fans of chess will love you for your attacks on the board.

Bernhard Jansen
Trier, GER

US

Franklin Chen, USA

Fire this manager and just play chess!

Mário Sérgio
Brasil

france

Vladimir Izgarshev,
Russia

Jeremy Good
Silver Spring, MD
USA

I'm just an emergency / critical care nurse who happens to love chess and is not very good at it: I have a special-needs child, full-time non-chess-related work, etc., etc. Still, I have spent a lot of time and money toward trying to improve as much as possible....--

I come now to the look of self-satisfaction on your face in news photo where the caption stated that you had just been awarded the point for Game 5. I saw too another photo showing your manager with the same kind of smile--again the caption stating that such was his reaction on hearing news of your being awarded the full point for that game.

I must tell you: I recoiled at those images. I found them repulsive. And the fact that you did not immediately and unconditionally refuse that point without having earned it, left me feeling cold and quite distant from chess itself, as though awakening from a long dream and regretting the long sleep which, in this case, has been the long self-delusion that chess is more than a mere game to be won or lost, that it was one of the most difficult, painful and rewarding methods of gaining self-knowledge and knowledge of the larger world....--

If chess is no more than the smirk of a losing player who has gained a point not by earning it over the board but rather by common political trickery, then it holds nothing for me.

You have shamed Chess, and have shamed yourself.

Veselin,

It was an error on the appeals committee, as you well realize, to start the clocks with such a dispute in progress, and having done so, they were in zugzwang to complete the forfeit.

Now, in either the event that you overtake Kramnik or you tie the match and win on tiebreaks, there will forever be an asterisk next to your accomplishment, in the same manner as Karpov's first world championship. This is not what you, an honorable person, would want.

Please agree to restore the score to 3-1 and settle this match only over a chessboard.

Being an Indian, I woulad have preferredn Anand as a one fo the players, but I a am a chess an first befire being and Indiian, and for Ches's sake, let's follow commin sense and start atg 3-1

It's all no use - Kramnik agrred to play at 3:2 with the total of 12 games.

Lukasz Pruski
pruski@sandiego.edu
USA

Just play the game! If you are better then Kramnik you win the game and the match, become World Champion and get our respect. If you don't... just your lose then.

From Iceland,
Bjarni Jens

Game 6 starts tomorrow with 3:2 score, as reported by chesspro.ru a few minutes ago.

Dear Mr. Topalov,

Do not allow that the game that is being played by your manager out of the chessboard will make you loose the respect of the entire chess world. We all believe that this situation is not entirely your fault but instead it comes from the fact that you haven't been well advised. Show to all of us, chess lovers from all over the world, that your comeback is still possible in the remaining eight games, but over the chessboard.
João Rosa
Portugal

Dear Mr Topalov,
I see you like a great fighter

Your smile when getting this point made me sad. In the love for chess,

PLAY CHESS

Too late, chesspro.ru says Kramnik agreed to 3:2 and game 6 is tomorrow.

Am I the only one who want the game 5 masterpiece to remain Topalov's only won game of the match?

Dear Veselin,

Believe me! You ARE able to win match with Kramnik without such tricks like wining a game by forfeit. Let’s look at last ELO list and show on board who is who.

Dear Mr Topalov,

Please salvage the good name of the sport from this utterly nonsensical situation that your esteemed manager has created. It's making chess fans all over the world hide their face in shame.

If you insist on winning that unearned point, and somehow manage to retain your title by virtue of it, all you'll have is a hollow crown. You'll have lost all your legitimacy and the respect in the chess world that you have so deservedly won over the last couple of years.

Dear Mr Topalov,

Please salvage the good name of the sport from this utterly nonsensical situation that your esteemed manager has created. It's making chess fans all over the world hide their face in shame.

If you insist on winning that unearned point, and somehow manage to retain your title by virtue of it, all you'll have is a hollow crown. You'll have lost all your legitimacy and the respect in the chess world that you have so deservedly won over the last couple of years.

According to www.chesspro.ru tomorrow the match will continue with the score 3:2 in Kramnik's favour. End of story.

http://chesspro.ru/match/reports/
For those who can read rusian, there is an interesting quote from А.С.Никитин, заслуженный тренер СССР, Сеньор тренер ФИДЕ ".....Зная характер поведения менеджера Топалова, трудно надеяться, что он вернет обратно так внезапно приобретенное очко (увы, на законных основаниях)"

Signed.

Portsmouth, England.

Do it, do it, do it Veselin!

And sack your manager

Tomás Navarro Cosme
Valencia (Spain)

Dear Veselin,
please be fair and play chess again instead of being afraid to lose and looking for very cheap excuses. I'm very dissapointed that you don't behave like a sportsman anymore.

Jackson from Vorarlberg ( Austria )

Goran Urosevic
goranurosevic@gmail.com
Serbia

"This may be obsolete any second now, but I thought it was worth a shot. Thanks, Mig."

It's obsolete now, I am sure.
What a shame, what a waste.
Unification during our lifetimes? I wonder...

Congratulations to Jonathan Rowson for articulating so accurately the truth of the present situation.

Will Fidelman also is truthful.

I believe Topalov needs to fire his Psychic and change his cook, as he is getting very poor advice and is apparently getting unreasonable in his thinking (must be the food or spells cast by his so called "Psychic" on his team).

Get back to the match and start and play game 5 as it should be. Take personal responsibility for your performance.

Veselin, you are very little, very small-minded! Shame on you and on your manager who's destroying all the efforts made up to now! And did I hear the president of the FIDE saying he wants to make chess an olympic game????

Trying to win the match using no clear political tactics is a no fair play. Show us what kind of chessman is Vesselin Topalov and cancel off the incident, playing fantastic games as yours previous have become habitual.
Good luck!
Bartek

Mr Topalov, consider this:

If you end up winning the match by the narrowest of margins, do you really want to be the world champion that won the world championship match by a forfeited game? You would be the least favorite world champion in that case (at least among the millions of chess fans around the world). You have a unique opportunity to regain the admiration and respect of all your fans (and believe me, you have plenty!) by voluntarily giving back the point to Vlad. Step up to the plate and do it voluntarily, without being persuaded to do so! Just win 3 games from the next 8, and you'll be the greatest champion ever!

Navin Sawalani
USA

USA

Belgium

I thought you where a fighter !?
Fight at the board. why do you wan´t a
win that you didn´t earn. FIDE made a mistake.
I think the game 5 should have been adjorned.
I can not understand if you are going to end
the match this way. Take it the chess way,
don´t be a coward ! you accuse your opponent of
cheating, what did you expect to get out of it ?
Tell me you would have done the same if the score was 3-1 in your favor !!

Nobody will respect a title won with an unearned point!!!

Won't you be embarrassed if you lose the match after accepting a free point unfairly?

New Zealand

I agree

I've lost all respect for Topalov for causing this crisis. It is clear that he only did this because he was trailing 1-3 after only 4 games. If Kramnik wins another two games in a row, he and/or his idiot manager will create yet another problem. I hope he feels very proud of winning at least the one game when Kramnik did not show up...

Mr. Topalov,

You are a person of low character. Tomorrow you will cement your place in chess history as a World Champion Coward.

Congratulations, you deserve it.

Bill Campbell
USA

Dear Mr. Topalov:

Please continue the match at 3-1. This is the only correct sportsmanlike decision.

Tim Taylor, IM

Budapest, HUNGARY

Dear Veselin,
Congratulations that your scumbag tactics worked. Please pass the congratulations on to that assclown Danailov. Thanks also for hammering the last nail into the coffin of professional chess.

Yours,
Sukh

Coimbra, Portugal

A forefit based on an unauthorized change in the agreed upon rules of the match benefits no one. Resume at game 5 and let's get on with it.

play chess!

Samer
Samer@ku..edu
United States

Sign

Alex
United States

If Toparov get away with his 'toilet win', I can fairly well expect what will happen next in the chessworld. Let's save chess!

Mr. Greengard, thanks for doing the right thing!

from South Korea, Seoul.
Bongcheon Chess Club organizer. (yachess.com)

If Toparov get away with his 'toilet win', I can fairly well expect what will happen next in the chessworld. Let's save chess!

Mr. Greengard, thanks for doing the right thing!

from South Korea, Seoul.
Youngjin (Bongcheon Chess Club)

Randy Evans
United States

Dear Mr. Topalov, Please continue the match with the fifth game, and the score @ 1 - 3. There is no reason you need Campomones or Danilov to intercede - your will to win, your artistry, and your ferocity over the board will still allow you to win this match. Even Leko won two games from Kramnik, and we all know his style hasn't nothing to do with actually trying to win. And then you can do something your spineless opponent failed to do: Give KASPAROV a 24 game match next year. Wishing you all the best, and pulling for you in every game, I remain ever so admiringly appreciative of your art!! Thank you, Edward Labate; www.labatechess.com; Anaheim, CA USA

Dear Mr. Topalov, Please continue the match with the fifth game, and the score @ 1 - 3. There is no reason you need Campomones or Danilov to intercede - your will to win, your artistry, and your ferocity over the board will still allow you to win this match. Even Leko won two games from Kramnik, and we all know his style hasn't nothing to do with actually trying to win. And then you can do something your spineless opponent failed to do: Give KASPAROV a 24 game match next year. Wishing you all the best, and pulling for you in every game, I remain ever so admiringly appreciative of your art!! Thank you, Edward Labate; www.labatechess.com; Anaheim, CA USA

United States

Dear Mr. Topalov,
Please continue the match with the fifth game, and the score @ 1 - 3 lest the match result should forever be marked with an asterisk. Also, please be the professional we all know you to truly be and accept Mr. Kramnik's proffered hand.

Dear Mr Topalov,

As a fellow Bulgarian living abroad and a chess fan I am ashamed of your behaviour. Due to your poor start, you artificially created this crisis in order to distract your opponent and de-rail the whole match. If the match is stopped, you cannot be considered a World Champion any longer.

Mr. Topalov Do not allow your desire to be the World Chess Champion by accepting a free point. How will you sleep at night? The score in your heart and mind is 3-1 after 4 games played. You allready have done a great pysch job on Vlad. Don't steal and cheat your way to a victory. I pray that the good Lord will enlighten you. Let's have a fair match and play the 8 remaining games.

continue with 3-1
let the world forget the nonsense of the past three days

Let's have order in the world chess championship again. I was enjoying it all until the end of the 4th game when all hell broke loose in there. What a shame that this has to happen. My wish is that the game restart ar the 5th with the score at 3-1 with all things restored to the normal. Without a doubt, there is no basis to Vaselin's complaint that Vlad spend too much time in the toilet as cheating. That is too bad.

Jesse Kraai

Santa Fe, New Mexico

If the match resumes at 3-2, then I am officially an EOT (Enemy of Topalov). Fortunately for him, I'm a powerless low-Expert.

USA

Louis Lima
New York, NY

Jason Juett
USA

Aswin Jayaram
India

Switzerland

P.Velusamy,
Perundurai,
Erode District,
Tamilnadu,
INDIA.

Sweden

Robert Goedegebuur
The Netherlands

Start from game 5

Kevin Bonham
Tasmania, Australia

Andrew Park
Montpellier, France

Mr Topalov, points are won on the board, not off.

Be a gentleman, Mr. Topalov.
In the long run it's much better than having that miserable point. It's a matter of what you would like to be remembered for.

BTW, name & place:
Mihaly Berkics
Budapest, Hungary

This tells me Topolov is not a champion, and has never been a champion. Please Topolov, don't do for chess what Tyson did for Holyfield.

You lost my respect, Topalov.

However great a chessplayer you are, in my book you go down in history as a sore looser and a child that cannot bear to loose.

And the organisers/referees........disgraceful.

- Knud Kjoelner, Denmark

Bravo for Kramnik.

Before the match I was hoping Topalov would win and establish himself as the true succesor to that other great champion; Kasparov. Now with this farcial 3-2 scoreline and Kramniks ageeing to play under protest subject to a later resolution and clarification of thay default.

I think I would not be alone in wishing Kramnik all the best and cheering him for this fantastic act of a true champion.

Kramnik is the real champion now and will re-establish himself at the apex of world chess.

Bravo for Vlad! A class act indeed!

Alasdair Alexander, Ireland

Please give back the point, Mr Topalov. It was not won in play, and should not count in the match.

keep the point vaseline...then no matter what happens you will have a very tainted win or a bad loss...can't you see that? you are a couple of 1000 elos above me and you don't see that? unbelievable.

Shame on you, Veselin !
Such a coward....... can't you behave like a fair chessplayer ?
How embarrassing ......... before the games you humiliate Mr. Kramnik with very very nasty abuses, then you lose two in a row ( !!! ) and suddenly you want FIDE to give you the games without playing ?
The chess-world is shocked by your behaviour. Hopefully you will lose.
Jakob from Germany

Mr Topalov, you are a disgrace to chess.
May the days where you call yourself chess champion soon be over.

Chris Hansen, Norway

David Buck, USA

Long JC Duget, Paris, France

Just when I thought some dignity had returned to chess at the top levels. Mr. Topalov, while I admire your talent and accomplishments, you must win points over the board or I will never call you world champion.

Arnold Gregory, USA

Dave Wolfe
Colorado, USA

Michael Christofferson
USA

what`s the point? Give ti back

Both players are artists at the game. Kramnik is more so then most know. To bad Topalov had to cheat his way to a full point because someone has to use the bathroom.
I drink a lot of water and coffee and I often have to get up many times to use the bathroom when I play. Sometimes I wonder if people will think I am cheating. I never do , but I know that just the thought can distract my thinking. It is so wrong to force negative thoughts on Kramnik. It is ashame Topalov lost game 2 , but that is not an excuse to cheat a point.
Kramnik has some health problems and that could be part of it to.
I like the style of both players , but after this I hope Kramnik wins the match. Richard Blank expert level player USCF

Give it back so that "IF" you win. You can be respected as the world champ.

Hand it back, Topalov, and be the bigger man.
Ben, Australia

Dear Topalov, I admire your chess fighting skills but getting a point thru manager is not suitable for a top player like you. We saw what a fighter you are at San Luis. You should give the point back and fight over the board and live upto your 2800+ elo rating.

World Chess Champion should be settings good standards for others. Youngsters like to emulate their heros and Heros should show the right way!

Here Kramnik is the winner ! Please start at 3-1 !

Dear Topalov, I admire your chess fighting skills but getting a point thru manager is not suitable for a top player like you. We saw what a fighter you are at San Luis. You should give the point back and fight over the board and live upto your 2800+ elo rating.

World Chess Champion should be settings good standards for others. Youngsters like to emulate their heros and Heros should show the right way!

Here Kramnik is the winner ! Please start at 3-1 !

Dear Topalov, I admire your chess fighting skills but getting a point thru manager is not suitable for a top player like you. We saw what a fighter you are at San Luis. You should give the point back and fight over the board and live upto your 2800+ elo rating.

World Chess Champion should be settings good standards for others. Youngsters like to emulate their heros and Heros should show the right way!

Here Kramnik is the winner ! Please start at 3-1 !

Dear Mr. Topalov,

I sincerely urge you to give back the game you were unfairly awarded in Game 5 of your match with Vladimir Kramnik. If the forfeit stands, then your reputation in the world of chess will be blackened forever. If you should end up winning the match with the help of the defaulted game your victory will have no credibility. If the forfeit stands and Kramnik wins the match he will look heroic and you will look like a charlatan.

Sincerely,
Alan Anderson,USA

Ted Cross, Beijing, China

Mr Topalov,

You know you are no better player than Kramnick. The only good player from Bulgaria is the lady Judit Polgar and not you. You should honourably give back the point and show the world how good a chess player you are by winning the point on the board. Your Psychological warfare on Kramnick is very bad and should be discouraged at all costs. Look at your past record against the Kramnick, the real leader of the young generation!!

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