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Open Letter From The Ukraniain Chess Federation To The Canadian Chess Federation
Sasha, as part of your continuing education into democracy, would you mind refraining from posting new business on the meeting board for the incoming Governors' ... 4 days after the meeting closed.
Thank you.
Thank you for your help in my "continuing education into democracy".
And let me help to educate you in the way Russia's propaganda operates: today's first page of the popular Russian newspaper with huge article about what people should eat, and a small print article about Malaysian Airline's tragedy: "Malaysian aircraft has crushed"! When all World knows that it was hit by the missile launched by Russian supported separatists.
And CFC supports KI, Putin's operative helping Kremlin to control FIDE!
12:05 "Российская газета" в пятницу на передовице опубликовала большую статью о еде и маленькую заметку о сбитом Boeing777. http://vi.ill.in.ua/m/950x0/834969.jpg
Last edited by Sasha Starr; Friday, 18th July, 2014, 11:22 AM.
"Iran Air Flight 655 was an Iran Air civilian passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai that was shot down by the United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes on 3 July 1988. The attack took place in Iranian airspace, over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, and on the flight's usual flight path. The aircraft, an Airbus A300 B2-203, was destroyed by SM-2MR surface-to-air missiles fired from the Vincennes."
"Iran Air Flight 655 was an Iran Air civilian passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai that was shot down by the United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes on 3 July 1988. The attack took place in Iranian airspace, over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, and on the flight's usual flight path. The aircraft, an Airbus A300 B2-203, was destroyed by SM-2MR surface-to-air missiles fired from the Vincennes."
You are missing the point: look at your quoted today's BBC first page: http://www.bbc.com/news/ - it is the HEADLINE, like in all leading papers around the World. It is a completely different approach in Russia. In some media resources it was even suggested that all the passengers were already dead long before the crush! So who could ever seriously trust Russia unless completely out of one's mind!
Last edited by Sasha Starr; Friday, 18th July, 2014, 11:58 AM.
Thank you for your help in my "continuing education into democracy".
And let me help to educate you in the way Russia's propaganda operates: today's first page of the popular Russian newspaper with huge article about what people should eat, and a small print article about Malaysian Airline's tragedy: "Malaysian aircraft has crushed"! When all World knows that it was hit by the missile launched by Russian supported separatists.
And CFC supports KI, Putin's operative helping Kremlin to control FIDE!
12:05 "Российская газета" в пятницу на передовице опубликовала большую статью о еде и маленькую заметку о сбитом Boeing777. http://vi.ill.in.ua/m/950x0/834969.jpg
I think you're being a bit excessive in your Russia bashing - the article on the plane crash is on the front page of the newspaper. If I go to any of the main news sites like ria.ru, Interfax.ru, news.rambler.ru, it is the lead story. And it hasn't been confirmed anywhere who fired the missile - even CNN are only reporting quotes like "a senior diplomat said the missile was likely fired by pro-Russian separatists."
Anyway, this has nothing to do with chess. Stop trying to mix sport with politics.
I think you're being a bit excessive in your Russia bashing - the article on the plane crash is on the front page of the newspaper. If I go to any of the main news sites like ria.ru, Interfax.ru, news.rambler.ru, it is the lead story. And it hasn't been confirmed anywhere who fired the missile - even CNN are only reporting quotes like "a senior diplomat said the missile was likely fired by pro-Russian separatists."
Anyway, this has nothing to do with chess. Stop trying to mix sport with politics.
Just listen to President's Obama latest announcement. Thank you for your opinion. The CFC's endorsement of KI is a political move: as a chess is concerned Kasparov is a giant, and KI - well, you can fill it up!
Just listen to President's Obama latest announcement. Thank you for your opinion. The CFC's endorsement of KI is a political move: as a chess is concerned Kasparov is a giant, and KI - well, you can fill it up!
Kapustin: "I use this opportunity to extend to you my deepest respect."
Yeah, OK. One might believe this more if the FSHU President and/or his advisers actually got the name of the Chess Federation of Canada correct. It's a bit like the "poll" here that has an incorrect spelling for the given name of the FIDE President. Children do that sort of thing and think it's mischievous and clever. It's not. When the mistake is unintended, then other adjectives come to mind ...
The CFC was once the CCF but, since it could be confused with the predecessor of today's NDP, the name was changed.
It was an unfortunate, but minor, mistake. That's all. It doesn't mean that Kapustin was lying or that the integrity of the Ukrainian Chess Federation has been called into question. There's lots of gray in the real world. Why is it that so much of your world is just black and white?
"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
"Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey
It was an unfortunate, but minor, mistake. That's all. It doesn't mean that Kapustin was lying or that the integrity of the Ukrainian Chess Federation has been called into question. There's lots of gray in the real world. Why is it that so much of your world is just black and white?
Peter, please keep in mind that certain people here are trying to do is to turn your attention away from the actual meaning of the post to some minor irrelevant issues. The diversion, trolling and pollution.
It was an unfortunate, but minor, mistake. That's all. It doesn't mean that Kapustin was lying or that the integrity of the Ukrainian Chess Federation has been called into question. There's lots of gray in the real world. Why is it that so much of your world is just black and white?
It shows how little effort was put into getting things right and belies the claims of "respect" for Canadians. In this regard it's not much different from the same sort of thing from Kasparov.
The latter's campaign is such a shambles and they shoot themselves in the foot so often, that all that's left is a bloody stump. It's like some foolish cartoon character ... Elmer Fudd!
Last edited by Nigel Hanrahan; Friday, 18th July, 2014, 02:02 PM.
Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.
The only place I see the letter is on the Kasparov campaign website. The story has a date but the letter doesn't. What else is interesting is the use of so-called "Open" letters. FIDE under KI was roundly denounced (on ChessBase I think) for indulging in the use of open letters to get their point of view across; I'd be curious if the same source has anything to say about the practice now that supporters of GK are doing it as well.
God, these guys are really bumbling so-and-so's aren't they?
Dogs will bark, but the caravan of chess moves on.
Do we call it even considering the title of this thread? :)
"Open Letter From The Ukraniain Chess Federation To The Canadian Chess Federation"
Instead of insinuating malice in every typo (fingerfehler)
or minor error in grammar or construction in every post,
it might be a novel idea to actually debate the contents?
Instead of insinuating malice in every typo (fingerfehler)
or minor error in grammar or construction in every post,
it might be a novel idea to actually debate the contents?
I insinuate nothing. One of them apparently spelled our name incorrectly, someone here spelled their name incorrectly, we're even. Right?
I'll leave the debate over content to people who have been paying enough attention to actually debate it.
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