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admin · Site Admin Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 1386

A nightmare with new law proposals

Gavin · Bishop Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Dunfermline

Opportunities for players to play in Olympiads and all sorts of junior tournaments and things all over the world?

Paul Denham · Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:28 pm Post subject:

" and all sorts of junior tournaments and things all over the world?"

Gavin - the last part of this seems pretty vague... can you expand a bit?

PD

Geoff Chandler · Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 10:24 pm Post subject:

What do you want FIDE to do for Scotland?

SteveHilton · King Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 443 Location: Greenock

For FIDE to treat all member nations and associations equally especially in its implementation of FIDE rules

admin · Site Admin Joined: 09 Jan 2007 Posts: 1386

Kirsan to resign and events being held where people will actually go to.

Look at the recent World Cup. The press conf was laughable (we probably had more backstage here than they did at the event!)

Gavin · Bishop Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Dunfermline

Paul Denham · Posted: Wed Dec 16, 2009 6:44 pm Post subject:

Gavin,

No it wasn't clear enough; "and things all over the world" was about as vague as it gets.

You think wrong. I am too lazy to stretch to anything and did not say they do "nothing" for us.

What prompted the post was that the London Chess Classic has looked very professional and popular.

The World Cup has looked less so and by comparison, FIDE looks out of touch. Indeed they have managed to switch off the world's no1 player of the moment, Magnus Carlsen, to the point where he withdrew from World Championship Cycle due to the many changes Kirsan and co kept making.

It may be fair to imply, that I was hinting at them doing "nothing" without saying "nothing" but I was actually thinking it was worth throwing it out for discussion without me saying one way or other whether FIDE do anything for chess in Scotland.

What I will say is that they could be a whole load more global and professional and organise a stable, consistently structured World Championship from which the game as a whole could benefit immensely.
Much of the damage caused by the breakaway's in the 1990's started with Campo siding with Team Karpov leading to the situation where Kasparov had to try to start a break away.

Whether they do anything or do enough for Chess in Scotland is still open to debate on this thread.

PD

Gavin · Bishop Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 33 Location: Dunfermline

Apologies, should have made that clearer.

I appreciate it wasn't you who said they did "nothing" and I didn't mean even to imply that you think that; someone else did so on another thread, just before you started this one. That was the comment I was referring to.

Paul Denham · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 8:04 pm Post subject:

Gav

No worries.

PD