FIDE has now backtracked and postponed the candidates tournament effective immediately, because Russia's airports were about to be locked down, which means all the candidates would have been stuck in Russia for the foreseeable future unless they postponed it and let them leave now.
www.fide.com/news/462
If FIDE had just postponed it in the first place and not delayed we would have a fresh tournament ready to go in the future, instead we have
1. Radjabov aving pulled out because they refused to take action on the tournament. He could have played if they postponed it earlier.
2. Results potentially being affected by the state of mind of the candidates due to the lock down, virus and other things, potentially affecting future results.
3. The tournament being delayed by many months.
FIDE could have done a much better job, no? If they had of just listened to people, there would have been none of this mess.
www.fide.com/news/462
If FIDE had just postponed it in the first place and not delayed we would have a fresh tournament ready to go in the future, instead we have
1. Radjabov aving pulled out because they refused to take action on the tournament. He could have played if they postponed it earlier.
2. Results potentially being affected by the state of mind of the candidates due to the lock down, virus and other things, potentially affecting future results.
3. The tournament being delayed by many months.
FIDE could have done a much better job, no? If they had of just listened to people, there would have been none of this mess.