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Two of my very favourite chess players, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Baadur Jobava, both absolute chess maniacs, seem to trying to outcrazy one another on the top board today. Not exactly the game you'd likely show a young chess student (:
Tromso Olympiad 2014 Open
Round Six, Aug. 8
Israel – Canada Match, Board 3
Sutovsky, Emil (ISR) – Gerzhoy, Leonid (CAN)
B11 Caro-Kann, Two Knights (3..Bg4)
Caruana is now lost against Carlsen so that means that the #6 and #3 ranked players in the world (i.e. Karjakin and Caruana) have now succumbed the past 2 rounds to 3. ..Qd8 Scandinavians (:
1. The Russian Chess Federation (RCF) delayed reporting Ukrainian Kateryna Lagno on its team for the Olympiad because the transfer wasn’t completed.
2. The cost of the transfer fee to RCF was 5000 euros.
3. The Olympiad Organising Committee rejected the RCF’s Women’s Team for late registration.
4. The RCF hired a first-class law firm, Quinn Emanuel, to represent its interests in the exclusion of the women’s national team from the Olympiad.
5. The Organising Committee caved and the RCF team with Kateryna Lagno is playing in Tromso. The Organising Committee or COT2014, finished their letter to FIDE President Ilyumzhinov with a bit of bravado, saying that they “hoped for a positive and constructive dialogue with FIDE up to and during the Chess Olympiad and with no further legal threats”.
6. First-class law firms and 5000-euro transfer fees have drained the coffers of the RCF.
7. It is only logical that the RCF tries to recover all of the monies it lost from the Olympiad Organising Committee battle and as soon as possible because, otherwise, in a week or so the players will pack up and go home, the Committee will be dissolved and virtually unsueable. All the money it presently has might be spent on running the Games and there will be none left at the end.
8. RCF has engaged Law firm Østgård DA of Tromsø to act on its behalf in the legal action taken before the Tromsø District Court against the COT2014, the RCF lawyer said.
The claim against the organizers of the Chess Olympiad is for the equivalent of NOK 1.2 million (around USD 200,000), to cover the RCF cost of hiring lawyers to protest their initial exclusion from the Chess Olympiad.
9. Of course, the RCF will have to pay Østgård as well. This all never really ends, does it?
1. The Russian Chess Federation (RCF) delayed reporting Ukrainian Kateryna Lagno on its team for the Olympiad because the transfer wasn’t completed.
2. The cost of the transfer fee to RCF was 5000 euros.
3. The Olympiad Organising Committee rejected the RCF’s Women’s Team for late registration.
4. The RCF hired a first-class law firm, Quinn Emanuel, to represent its interests in the exclusion of the women’s national team from the Olympiad.
5. The Organising Committee caved and the RCF team with Kateryna Lagno is playing in Tromso. The Organising Committee or COT2014, finished their letter to FIDE President Ilyumzhinov with a bit of bravado, saying that they “hoped for a positive and constructive dialogue with FIDE up to and during the Chess Olympiad and with no further legal threats”.
6. First-class law firms and 5000-euro transfer fees have drained the coffers of the RCF.
7. It is only logical that the RCF tries to recover all of the monies it lost from the Olympiad Organising Committee battle and as soon as possible because, otherwise, in a week or so the players will pack up and go home, the Committee will be dissolved and virtually unsueable. All the money it presently has might be spent on running the Games and there will be none left at the end.
8. RCF has engaged Law firm Østgård DA of Tromsø to act on its behalf in the legal action taken before the Tromsø District Court against the COT2014, the RCF lawyer said.
The claim against the organizers of the Chess Olympiad is for the equivalent of NOK 1.2 million (around USD 200,000), to cover the RCF cost of hiring lawyers to protest their initial exclusion from the Chess Olympiad.
9. Of course, the RCF will have to pay Østgård as well. This all never really ends, does it?
"Ilyumzhinov exploited the other excluded federations, the federations his administration had just robbed of their votes, as an excuse to pressure the Olympiad’s organizers in Norway into allowing the Russian women’s team to play. Now that Russia is in, with Lagno, of course Gabon and Afghanistan are again punished and ignored. It is a disgrace for our sport that the Ilyumzhinov administration is committing such actions.
Kirsan’s administration is breaking all records, both for youngest Olympiad players and for levels of corruption.
As has been well documented, the valid and long-standing federation of Gabon and its president were suddenly replaced by the FIDE Secretariat after they announced support for Kasparov. This made it impossible for their Olympiad teams to be registered in time. Now, having been given a second chance by the Norwegian organizers, the catastrophe of Ilyumzhinov’s dirty trick is revealed. This “new president” (approved by the Kirsan loyalists on the Electoral Commission!), Gabin Nicaise Yala, has no connections with the players or anyone else in the Gabonese chess community and could not arrange to send teams. When pressed, after several days he submitted a “team” with made-up FIDE IDs that is composed mainly of his own family members, including his young children! Another member of this “team” is a former official who has already publicly disavowed any connection with this new fake organization!
Kirsan’s administration is breaking all records, both for youngest Olympiad players and for levels of corruption. We have ample evidence and correspondence that proves that this entire project of destroying the official Gabon federation was orchestrated by Lewis Ncube, Ilyumzhinov’s vice-president in Africa.
The similar case vote-stealing in Afghanistan also had a ruinous continuation. The legitimate federation president was simply deleted by Nigel Freeman, also after Afghanistan supported Kasparov publicly. The author of the letter used to justify this crime was signed by Mr. Kiramuddin Karim, who has no actual authority over the Chess Federation or the National Olympic Committee. Of course the same four Ilyumzhinov supporters on the Electoral Commission saw no problem with this at all.
“..misuse of authority, holding illegal presidential elections of the national federations (Wushu, Taekwondo, Chess…”
The Afghanistan National Assembly apparently does not agree however, and we have obtained a letter from its Complaint Commission requesting criminal charges against Kiramuddin Karim regarding, “Afghanistan National Olympic Committee complaints regarding illegal interference” including “..misuse of authority, holding illegal presidential elections of the national federations (Wushu, Taekwondo, Chess…) and assigning non-professional persons (Haji Almas as president of the chess federation, Mr. Rabani Rabani as president of the Taekwondo federation…)” and concluded by declaring that he “must be prosecuted by Attorney General of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.” [ See signed letter below. ] Meanwhile, the first act of this “new delegate,” who lives in Moscow, was to cancel the participation of the Afghan women’s team. Gens Una Sumus?"
"This all never really ends, does it?"
Yes you are correct, as long as the CFC and other federations support corrupt crooks like Kirsan it never will end and chess will continue in its current pathetic state with no legitimate commercial sponsorship. The world chess championship in Sochi being a good example as there were no other takers/sponsors and even this match has no signed contract, simply an announcement that it will happen.
The decision of the CFC executive to support Kirsan is disgusting and is one that i will never forget.
Last edited by Sid Belzberg; Friday, 8th August, 2014, 07:25 PM.
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