Following the example of the International Olympic Committee which had recognized FIDE as a supreme body responsible for the game of Chess and its Championships we acknowledge the FIDE's role as the main integrating force in the world of chess. Its unique worldwide infrastructure and vast organizational experience are the factors that make FIDE indispensable for the further popularization of Chess in the world. We recognize FIDE's authority and priority in the matters of administration of the World Championship Cycle and encourage it to continue the organizational work in its entirety, starting from the National Championships, through the Zonal tournaments, all way long to the final matches of the World Chess Championship.

We would like once again emphasize our support to the new democratic knock-out formula of the World Chess Championship - both highly attractive for the public and objective in a sense that it provides equal opportunities to the players fighting for the utmost Chess title and eliminates all the former unfair privileges of the incumbent Champions. The introduction of this new democratic formula was an important step forward in making our sport less elitarian, more just, more open, more dynamic - in other words more appealing to the wide audience.

We recognize the FIDE World Chess Championship as The World Chess Championship, i.e. the only truly representative, equitable, legitimate competition on the highest individual professional level open to all the players throughout the world, and herewith invite all the potential members of our organization to join us in this dictum.

We heartily welcome all the sponsors interested in our sport and endorse their laudable endeavours to organize any kind of commercial matches involving all categories of players: amateurs, professionals, world- and ex-world champions. They may feel free to choose any sort of extravagant names for their 'brainchildren of change' as long as these events do not interfere with the interests of the members of our organization, do not contradict to the noble ideals of the chess movement represented by FIDE, do not become an instrument in the inexperienced hands of the unscrupulous chess politicos, used with the destructive purposes in mind.

At the same time we would like to express our deep concern over the incessant support that these irresponsible and inept politicos receive from certain corrupt circles of the chess media. This support is not only expressed by their belligerent attitude towards FIDE, slanderous personal attacks, systematic misrepresentation of the actual situation in the chessworld, but has recently acquired an alarming scale of outright supression of the freedom of opinion and imposition of the Gag Rule on the players who do not satisfy certain arbitrary criteria. These staunch enemies of the recent democratic changes brought by FIDE to Chess are interested in preservation of the totalitarian order in the chessworld when the outspoken players are relentlessly blacklisted as unwelcome, the rules of the competition are brazenly manipulated and the general public is ruthlessly brainwashed. Using their monopolic position in the press, they are drawing the chessplayers back to the period before the WWII, the period of the chess history characterized by the Individual Law and unrestrained Dictate of the World Champions (with peculiarity of the present general decline of morals) and try to represent it as a great victory of democracy and freedom.

We have been given an opportunity to smell a flavour of this 'democracy' in the recent development of the alternative WCC cycle, when its directors after having had learnt the name of the winner of the qualification match in Cazorla, turned a blind eye to him, immediately forgot all their financial obligations towards the winner, hurriedly dissolved the organization and polluted the chess press with all sorts of mendacious declarations about the true state of affairs. It stands to reason that in some way the winner did not suit their plans of staging a farce of the alternative World Championship.

Now they have come back under a disguise of a new company named 'BGN'- a worthy sequel to the PCA and WCC: the main actors are the same, the event is called 'BGN World Chess Championship', the loser is given the place of the winner and the so-called "democratic chess press" makes its best efforts to warm up the public and represent this farce as a long awaited encounter of the two best players for the title of the World Champion. In one respect they are right - this time the opponents are worth each other. A letter of protest from Boadilla del Monte, signed by a group of 89 players was cynically dismissed by a number of journalists as 'lacking of interest' and 'not likely to have a huge impact'.

Despite all the above exposed the WPC will not approve of any kind of sanctions against the players - FIDE should not use the methods of its detractors. In our opinion the only solution to the present unsustainable situation consists of giving a maximum exposure to the machinations of the venal journalists involved. The WPC is ready to provide its help and solicits FIDE to take steps in this direction.

On behalf of the WPC,