ACP defends chess-whistleblowers
Citizens with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because they’ll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it.
Edward Snowden
Just in the past few weeks two top professionals, GM Georgiev and GM Koneru, were victimized by their respective federations for making public comments exposing wrong doing and/or gross incompetence by high ranking members of their federations. In Kiril Georgiev’s case, his federation suspended him for 3 years (!). Koneru is still awaiting to be informed of her punishment.
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Bulgarian GM K. Georgiev and Indian GM H. Koneru