To Ruslan Ponomariov, FIDE World Champion 11.04.2004
Dear Mr Ponomariov,
We thank you for addressing the ACP on the most important issue of the
forthcoming 2004 FIDE World Championship.
It does strike us as illogical that the official FIDE World Champion
should take part in a large knock-out event that will produce a winner,
when the latter is then obliged to play a title match with a seeded player
who is not a title holder. Considering that the seeded player was your
official challenger for the same title several months before, the current
format imposed by FIDE is devoid of any sense from the sporting point of
view.
Therefore, we fully understand your position on this matter and inform you
that it is shared by other leading players.
If you consider that your rights are being infringed from a legal
standpoint by FIDE, you may send us all relevant documents and we shall
contact the lawyer of the ACP on your behalf, in order to investigate this
case.
With best regards,
The ACP Board 11.04.2004
ACP on Player's Undertaking
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