BILBAO (Dagbladet): June 7 came organizer of the World Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Karjakin with a message to chess world through Dagbladet: A venue was found, only details remained to work with sponsors and publication of the full package would come within a few weeks.
It is now almost one and a half month ago and still nothing happened.Yesterday told Dagbladet therefore AGON-owner Ilya Merenzon about a clear answer on what the delay is due, and the match can be moved to Moscow as several experts suspect and how he sees the dialogue with players who both confirmed to Dagbladet that they are still waiting for their contracts.
Here's a good summary from Wiki. Follow the footnote links for comments by Leonard Barden and others.
Resumed skepticism after Karjakin wins the Candidates[edit]
Almost immediately after Sergey Karjakin won the Candidates Tournament 2016 there were Internet rumors from persons such as Nigel Short that the host city was likely to be changed.[33][34] These were later echoed by more substantial sources such as Dirk Jan ten Guezendam (editor of New in Chess) who stated to Norwegian broadcaster NRK (Apr 19): "I would like to travel to New York. But still I would be surprised if I had to go there for this match."[18] Agon moved to quash such "tittle-tattle and gossip" by a public message on May 2.[20] A month later they were proud to announce that a venue in New York City had been found, advising that in the next 2 weeks sponsor details and final paperwork would be finalized.[21] However, the situation dragged into mid-July, at which time Agon seemed unsure of a venue (citing difficulties of a month-long arrangement in New York City), but insisted that sponsors were in line, proposing 3-4 more weeks before an announcement would occur.[22] This time the comments came from Agon's press attaché (Andrew Murray-Watson) rather than Merenzon directly, and the comments were repeated to Leonard Barden and in the English Chess Forum.[35]
Throughout the process, Karjakin saw no reason to hide the fact that he would rather play in Russia,[34] and that anywhere in Europe would be superior to the USA.[36] According to career information at Chessgames.com, it appears that Karjakin has never previously played chess in the USA.[37]
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