For immortal games, check out

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1013918

If anyone thinks harder, they'd see they have no particular reason to dislike Topalov. Please do a count how many of his games are in the above collection. 

About Aronian, he should say something on the issue or else he'd be one of those scheming to take out a formidable opponent as Topa out of the competition without play. 

You may hate a player or not, but you have to give them a level field. The Russian field has never been level.

FIDE moves Candidates matches to Kazan, Russia
27.07.2010 – Just days after a request from the Russian Chess Federation to move the 2011 Candidates matches away from Baku, Azerbaijan, FIDE President Kirsan Illumzhinov has announced that the match will indeed now take place in Kazan. If Topalov refuses to play in Russia, as he has threatened, he will (brace yourself) be replaced by Alexander Grischuk

 

Details: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6553

If the Soviet Union still exist ,then ...

Why not in India, the birth place of Chess

They could hold the next candidates matches on the moon, it doesn't matter because Magnus Carlsen will 'sparke litt haler' wherever he's sent.

Hummm...FIDE...Russian Chess Federation...CORRUPTION...go figure..duhhh

Play in London! :D

@ PhilipN - the hosts were always likely to get to choose the wildcard entry, and apparently, despite the venue now being switched to Russia, the Azerbaijani choice is still going to play - Shakhriyar Mamedyarov.

Go figure!

At first glance, I thought that the idea of holding the matches in St. Louis (as at least two other people have suggested) seemed like a good one.  After all, the facility is first-rate, and they have had success with all three U.S. Chess Championships (open, women, and junior) in recent years.  However, I would like to bring to everyone's attention that ST. LOUIS WOULD NOT BE A NEUTRAL VENUE DUE TO KAMSKY'S PARTICIPATION.  I have to admit that I'm still hoping for them to pick Nakamura for the wildcard due to his exciting, fire-on-board style, but I suspect they'll pick someone else.

I have often wondered if solving world disputes by playing chess rather than going to war would be a good idea. That is, as long as Kasparov don't make it as president of Russia... I can't see Magnus Carlsen as prime minister of Norway eighter in nearest future...

But putting in FIDE instead of United Nations I think would have been a bad idea...

Poor little princess Topalov.

Topa = QQ

haha at adamperfection! way to tell it like it is

India, France, Germany, Phillipines, United States, China, Cuba and FIDE can't get a neutral venue.  I know even in relatively small organizations it's all about politics and money but it still is pretty pathetic.

I say bring em to the Saint Louis Chess Center!

Kasparov and Karpov completely dominated this ordinary GM; and others excellent players, like Anand and Kramnik, always seem to put him in his place when it counts. We should be looking at Carlsen and Poma.. for the next possible great player. It's clear that Topalov's day on top will never come.

It is hard enough to satisfy more than two people at once, so compromises have to be made. It does not seem like this was the "best" compromise, but what do we know - none of us did work on it to try to facilitate the finding of an appropriate venue. In the end, the decision is likely more about money and politics than sport, or chess, or fairness...

  Shouldn't matches be held at neutral sites?

I hope Topalov plays. It will be the chess world's loss if that chess genius isn't in the candidates...

If the Danailov&Topalov gang stand behind their words, this is actually very good news.