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Date: Wed, 10-Aug-83 14:43:00 EDT
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From: Jim Boyce <JEB@SU-AI>
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Kasparov To Appeal Korchnoi Win
    MOSCOW (AP) - Soviet grandmaster Garri Kasparov, who forfeited a
world champion chess semifinal match to Soviet defector Victor
Korchnoi, said today he is appealing the loss to the congress of the
International Chess Federation.
    ''On Aug. 6, FIDE (International Chess Federation) President
Florencio Campomanes is known to have declared me a loser for not
appearing at the venue of a match in Pasadena (Calif.) and declared
Korchnoi the winner of an unplayed match,'' the 20-year-old chess star
said in a statement carried by the official news agency Tass.
    ''I hold that this decision, just like the FIDE president's stand in
the question of venues of semifinal matches, runs counter to the
interests of chess. Therefore, I am addressing the FIDE congress in a
request to reconsider the decision by Campomanes and to ensure the
legitimate holding of the present title contenders' cycle.''
    The Soviet Chess Federation said it too considered it a violation of
FIDE rules to have Korchnoi declared the winner of the Pasadena
match, Tass reported. The federation said that when the FIDE congress
convenes in October it will ask it to consider the ''question of
canceling this unfair decision.''
    Korchnoi, who defected from the Soviet Union in 1976, was declared
the winner by default of a semifinal match between himself and
Kasparov after Kasparov did not show up.
    Kasparov did not attend the match because of Soviet protests that
FIDE had picked Pasadena as a site over the objections of the Soviet
player. Pasadena is a suburb of Los Angeles. The Soviets said they
objected to it because of security concerns and lack of ''unhampered
entry'' by Soviet representatives.
    Korchnoi was agreeable to holding the match in Rotterdam,
Netherlands, but FIDE still refused to change the match site, the
Soviets said.
    Kasparov hinted earlier that he intended to file an appeal. In a
telephone interview Sunday with The Associated Press, he said from his
hometown in Baku that he did not think the chess dispute was over.
''It is only beginning,'' he said.
    Kasparov also said Sunday that he doubted world chess champion
Anatoly Karpov, of the Soviet Union, would be willing to meet the
challenger emerging from the semifinals.
    Korchnoi and Kasparov were to play one of two semifinal matches that
were to have started Saturday. The other, between Zolta Ribli of
Hungary and Vasily Smyslov of the Soviet Union, was to have been
played in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. But the host country
withdrew following the Soviet protests over Abu Dhabi as a site and
the match was never held. A final ruling must be made on the status of
that match.
    The winners of the two semifinals were to play one another for the
right to face Karpov.
    Karpov was in Hannover, West Germany, competing in that country's
chess championships.
    
ap-ny-08-09 1202EDT
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