FIDE Changes Candidate Tournament Dates
After howls of protest at FIDE's proposed timetable for the Candidates Tournament - in between the Bilbao Masters and London Chess Classic in October/November this year - FIDE have relented and revised the dates to March 2013.
That ironically uncommon quality of common sense seems to have prevailed at last, as the Candidates Tournament will now take place in a relatively quiet part of the tournament calendar instead of effectively destroying two successful commercial events.
March 28, 2012 – Athens, Greece – Following publication of the draft calendar two weeks ago and after evaluating feedback from players and organizers, FIDE and AGON, FIDE's partner for organizing the World Chess Championship Cycle, are pleased to announce the revised schedule of events for 2012-2016.
[N.B., in the revised calendar, the next World Chess Candidates Tournament has been moved to March 13 – March 31, 2013. The tournament will take place in London.]
| 2012 | ||||||||
| Championship Match | Moscow | May 10 – May 30 | ||||||
| Olympiad | Istanbul | August 27 – September 10 | ||||||
| Grand Prix | Chelyabinsk | September 19 – October 3 | ||||||
| Grand Prix | Tashkent | November 21 – December 4 | ||||||
| 2013 | ||||||||
| Candidates | London | March 13 – March 31 | ||||||
| Grand Prix | Lisbon | April 10 – April 24 | ||||||
| Grand Prix | Madrid | May 22 – June 4 | ||||||
| Grand Prix | Berlin | July 3 – July 17 | ||||||
| World Cup | Tromsø | August 10 – September 5 | ||||||
| Grand Prix | Paris | September 18 – October 2 | ||||||
| Championship Match | TBD | November 6 – November 26 | ||||||
| 2014 | ||||||||
| Candidates | TBD | March 12 – March 30 | ||||||
| Grand Prix | TBD | May 14 – May 28 | ||||||
| Grand Prix | TBD | July 2 – July 16 | ||||||
| Olympiad | Tromsø | August 1 – August 14 | ||||||
| Grand Prix | TBD | September 10 – September 24 | ||||||
| Championship Match | TBD | November 5 – November 25 | ||||||
| 2015 | ||||||||
| Grand Prix | TBD | May 13 – May 27 | ||||||
| Grand Prix | TBD | July 1 – July 15 | ||||||
| World Cup | TBD | August or November | ||||||
| Grand Prix | TBD | September 9 – September 23 | ||||||
| 2016 | ||||||||
| Candidates | TBD | March 9 – March 28 | ||||||
| Grand Prix | TBD | May 11 – May 25 | ||||||
| Grand Prix | TBD | July 6 – July 20 | ||||||
| Olympiad | TBD | August or September or November | ||||||
| Grand Prix | TBD | August or September or November | ||||||
| Championship Match | TBD | August or September or November |
