IGOR RAUSIS – spraggettonchess

October 12, 2020

Coffee, Carlsen-IPO, Rausis and Covid_19

October 12, 2020

How are you today? This Monday is not your usual run of the mill Monday! This week is CRITICAL! In a lot … Read the rest

December 7, 2019

How are you today? It has been a while since my last coffee blog and now seems like an appropriate moment for the next. Lots … Read the rest

August 3, 2019

Miracles, Magic and FIDE’s Fair Play Committee

Several weeks after the photo of Grandmaster Igor Rausis sitting in a washroom stall using a cellphone during … Read the rest

July 23, 2019

Tuesday Coffee

How are you today? This past week saw me in action at the tough Portuguese Team Championship in Evora, and as a result … Read the rest

July 21, 2019

Yuri Garrett Completely Out of Control!

It has been a particularly difficult week for FIDE ‘Fair Play’ committee member Yuri Garrett. After he published incriminating … Read the rest

July 14, 2019

“Today was a Great Day for Chess”

So wrote Yuri Garrett, of FIDE’s “Fair Play” Commission when a similar photo to that of the young … Read the rest