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Controversy over the word World Championship, FIDE urges players not to participate in the league
Chess News: The World Chess Federation has urged players not to participate in the Chess World Championship being organized by world number one chess player Magnus Carlsen of Norway.
The decision regarding whether February's scheduled Chess World Championship will go ahead or not is in limbo. The new league has been refused outright by the International Chess Federation in no uncertain terms. There is a dispute between Norway's world number one player Magnus Carlsen and the International Chess Federation (FIDE-Federation Internationale des Echecs, but is simply referred to as World Chess Federation). Carlsen and Henrik Buttner started Freestyle Chess Players Club in March of last year. After that, recently, Carlson organized the Freestyle Chess World Championship, starting in 2025. But FIDE objected to using the title 'World Championship' and Carlson showed disappointment over it.
FIDE urged its players not to go for any such world championship that it hadn't approved. After that, India's famous player and Vice-President of FIDE, Vishwanathan Anand, withdrew himself from the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam competition tour.
On FIDE stopping the players and objecting to the World Championship, Buttner has written an open letter to FIDE CEO Emil Sutovsky, which has been supported by Carlsen. In this letter, Buttner has called FIDE greedy. Buttner wrote, that if FIDE really objects to the word World Championship, then why were players like Ding Liren allowed to participate in the Bughouse World Championship. FIDE's motive behind this controversy is only money. Responding to Buttner's letter, FIDE's COA Sutovsky said, we are ready to work with any private project, but if you want war, then try it.
