Cheating & FIDE. Complicity. (Part I)
A Cheating Coverup?

This past week has witnessed an explosion of stories of top women players cheating in both online and over the board tournaments. … Read the rest
A Cheating Coverup?
This past week has witnessed an explosion of stories of top women players cheating in both online and over the board tournaments. … Read the rest
FIDE Dress Code: The Double Standards Game
They could both pass as fashion models! Grandmasters Anton Kovalyov (l) and Magnus Carlsen (r). Kovalyov looks … Read the rest
”Manipulating proxies, deceiving inexperienced federations, stretching the truth and intimidating – this is a trademark style of Mr. Makropoulos’s team. We have decided to … Read the rest
Threatens legal action if Makro does not stop
Amongst other things, but that was the veiled threat in Dvorkovich’s open letter published earlier today. The … Read the rest
Ethics Committee will not cave into Makro’s extortion!
Today Dvorkovich continued his campaign in Armenia, clearly not allowing Makro’s desperate appeal to the FIDE ethics … Read the rest
Makro set to eliminate election rival
It is impossible to make this stuff up! Below is an open letter by FIDE presidential candidate Arkady Dvorkovich … Read the rest
UNPRECEDENTED MOVE TO SUBVERT OCT 3 VOTE
Few details are available at this moment, but rumours suggest Makropoulos hurriedly scheming to cancel the FIDE vote … Read the rest
Cheating has to stop!
I was thinking of writing another blog article on cheating in chess, and when I recently read Irina Bulmaga’s eloquent comments… Read the rest
African chess leaders expose Makro’s corruption
It has long been recognized that acting FIDE president Georgios Makropoulos has been trying every trick in the book … Read the rest
Makro admits to criminal enterprise
Hard to believe, but TRUE! It has always amazed me how chess players can sometimes be so STUPID. Yesterday , … Read the rest
FIDE caught lying about UBS closure !!
It had been suspected for atleast 8 months that the FIDE executive board had been using the FIDE … Read the rest
Insight into the meaning of LIFE (And other REAL nonsense!)
That is the truth! I used to believe that english was the universal language … Read the rest
Europe about to explode!?
Frank Capa’s famous photo from the Spanish Civil War (1936) is about to be replaced by an updated 2017 version as … Read the rest
A more Diplomatic approach
Having failed to impress acting FIDE president Makropoulos with CFC representative Hal Bond’s hardball letter of last week (which Makropoulos shrugged … Read the rest
FIDE wants more Azmaiparashvili’s !
Darth Vader still haunts us! But could we have expected otherwise? FIDE just keeps on protecting it’s own. Responding to … Read the rest