Hours after I posted the item on Nanjing Pearl Spring, Anand and Topalov disappeared from the event website and were replaced with "to be determined"! [The sharp-eyed Torrelio in the comments notes that if you click the first blank square you still get Topalov's picture. Hasty cover-up!] Maybe the organizers' announcements got a little ahead of their contracts? Inquiries as yet unanswered.
Chinese Disappearing Act
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and if you click on the first one you still get Topalov's photo...
They know a thing or two about disappearing acts and false information in China...don't they?
Also an interesting headline: Topalov Surly ...
(yeah, i know, but it's interesting anyway)
CO
Look at
http://www.chess-pearlspring.com/www/chess_pk/yxs1.htm
http://www.chess-pearlspring.com/www/chess_pk/yxs3.htm
Clearly Topalov and Anand are still very much present on the website.
Anand is playing in the Tal Memorial in November so maybe the dates were too close.