FIDE World Championship Cycle Suspended
Covid-19 outsmarts FIDE
Is a major SCANDAL about to fall on Dvorkovich’s head? Today the FIDE president announced that the Candidates Tournament was immediately suspended … Read the rest
Category: FIDE
Kramnik distances himself from Dvorkovich/Covid-19
Attack of Conscience?
Vladimir Kramnik, former World Champion, has saved the reputation of the chess community proving that not all elite chess players are motherless … Read the rest
#stopchessnow
Stop FIDE Today!
Grandmaster Alex Colovic, current president of the ACP (Association of Chess Professionals) is making an URGENT appeal to FIDE and all other … Read the rest
Coronavirus, FIDE & Chess
A Warning from Italy
Bravo to Italian chess organizer, player and long time member of FIDE’s Fair Play Committee, Yuri Garrett, for bringing this to … Read the rest
Intel, Sony & Amazon act on Coronavirus Uncertainty
Should FIDE cancel UAE congress?
Does FIDE’s leadership really know what it is doing? Last week FIDE director-general Emil Sutovsky confidently predicted — on his … Read the rest
The Elephant in the Room!
Dvorkovich’s Disgrace!
Can you see the ELEPHANT in the room? I have not yet seen any FIDE press release, Blog article, Tweet, FaceBook or Instagram … Read the rest
Coronavirus, FIDE and Leadership Skills
UAE suspends all flights from China
This is an escalating crisis that has the potential to do some pretty scary stuff to the whole world … Read the rest
CoronaVirus Alert in Sports World
FIDE to Cancel February Congress?
The IOC has already discussed with the WHO (World Health Organization) the possibility to cancel the Tokyo Summer Olympics (… Read the rest
Russia to challenge WADA ban at CAS
Yury Ganus fears the worse
While it was expected that Russia would challenge the WADA 4-year ban of its athletes at the Court of Arbitration … Read the rest
Monday, Nepo, Coffee & Potpourri
Monday Coffee
How are you today? Xmas in just a couple of days and the end the year not long afterwards…I don’t know about you … Read the rest
Today’s Vintage Chess Humor
From the November 1968 ChessReview magazine, which I suppose correctly sums up the then prevailing attitude of 50-ish year old chess playing males towards women … Read the rest
Today’s Vintage Chess Humor
The Politics of Discarding the Rules of Chess
When the Spanish priest Ruy Lopez published in 1561 his LIBRO DE LA INVENCION LIBERAL Y ARTE … Read the rest
Dvorkovich comments on WADA decision
FIDE Cautiously Optimistic about 2020 Plans
As predicted, WADA earlier on Monday voted unanimously to suspend the Russian sports movement for 4 years. It was … Read the rest
Today’s Vintage Chess Humor
Gender Benders
The sixties were a time of much social upheaval in America and Europe. The traditional role of women in the work place was … Read the rest
FIDE in Meltdown Mode?
What if WADA is just the Beginning?
If WADA gets its way — and it is looking very much like that — then a devastating … Read the rest
