Children’s games at FIDE quarterly meeting
FIDE officials behaving like 5-year olds !
I had to laugh! Uncontrollably. For all of the scandals and crises-both large and small- that Kirsan Ilyumzhinov presided over these past 22 years since first becoming head of FIDE in , you would have thought that we had seen everything that there is to see (dirty laundry included) and that there is simply nothing left to shock us or move us to laughter. But recent events have shown us that we are wrong…
1 resignation. 2 resignations. 3 resignations…
Did Kirsan Ilyumzhinov REALLY at the quarterly meeting in Athens before he stormed out and angrily headed back to his hotel room? FIDE Executive Director Nigel Freeman certainly wants us to think so. He confirmed so in writing to Kirsan:
The problem with Nigel’s letter above is that it does little to clarify the issue of whether Kirsan really resigned: The point I raise is not a moot point. Had Kirsan been serious about resigning as FIDE president, saying ‘I resign’ once would have been sufficient. ‘Threatening’ to resign – even a 1,000 times – is hardly the same thing. The only certain thing in Nigel’s letter that Kirsan would probably not argue with is that…he left the room! Otherwise, it seems to me that Kirsan was not the only one who allowed emotion to colour his perception. Karpov and Campomanes introducing Kirsan at a press conference, Paris 1995
