Monday Coffee
Coffee, Chess, FIDE and other Nonsense
Good Monday, readers! The first week of June is always a good sign of warmer and sunnier things … Read the rest
Category: politics
Saturday Coffee, chess & FIDE
Saturday Coffee!
Good morning, Saturday! I trust everybody had a great week and that now you can relax and enjoy the good weather this weekend. … Read the rest
Sunday Coffee
Sunday Coffee
Good day, Sunday! It’s been kind of quiet this past week (ignoring Trump’s narcissist behavior, of course) and that has allowed me to … Read the rest
Friday Coffee
Friday Coffee
Happy Friday, everybody! It has been a pretty busy week. And finally I am beginning to be convinced that summer is just around … Read the rest
You have mail!
Readers Respond to Makro’s Letter
Following up on yesterday’s letter from Georgios Makropoulos, I received quite a bit of mail, most of it rational … Read the rest
Friday Coffee. Part II
2018 FIDE Carnival Begins!
This past week was NOT the first week of the 2018 FIDE presidential campaign. That infact started last spring when Makro … Read the rest
Friday Coffee, Chess and Potpourri
Coffee with an Attitude!
Happy Friday, everybody! Today I take a look at coffee news, the FIDE election and some chess-bashing by MSM this … Read the rest
2018 FIDE Elections
Kirsan enroute to BIG win in October!
You have to hand it to the man! He has managed to out-finesse each and every of his … Read the rest
Monday Coffee
Monday Coffee
”Black as night; sweet as sin. Pure. Deliberate. Awesome…Coffee, always the muse.” – anon
It’s been a while since I penned my last … Read the rest
FIDE elections faked!?
Kirsan runs against himself!
I almost fell for it! But reading declarations by both Kirsan and Makro this past week, I now realize that everything … Read the rest
Living in Trump’s America
Lady in Red!
There are some things Americans never fool around with: the 2nd Amendment, their guns or their women. The rest can be negotiated. … Read the rest
FIDE treasurer Prof. Dr. Adrian Siegel writes to me
UBS, FIDE and Siegel: Realpolitik?
Prof.Dr. Adrian Siegel, the former president of the Swiss Chess Federation and today the FIDE treasurer, is no stranger to … Read the rest
FIDE treasurer under fire!
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
FIDE, Saudi Arabia and a fist full of $$$
Hard to walk away…
Sports and politics, in principle, do not mix but realpolitik has changed all of this. When FIDE accepted Saudi Arabia’s bid … Read the rest
The entire 2004 Divinsky interview
Divinsky Unplugged
Dr.Nathan Divinsky passed away last June 17 at age 86. You can find his obituary from the Globe and Mail here. I
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