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FIDE has sent a letter to the Tromsø Olympiad Organizing Committee and the President of the Norwegian Chess
Federation by way of their legal representation (REYMOND & ASSOCIÉS) in Switzerland.
The letter refers to the "enforcement of the decision of the FIDE President concerning late registration of some teams" and outlines the legal reasoning behind this urgent request/demand. The letter debunks the spurious legal reasoning given by the committee in its deliberations on this matter...
Originally posted by Jean-Marc Reymond
As a consequence, in your capacity of organizers of the 2014 Chess Olympiad, you have the duty to take immediately all the necessary steps in order to allow the mentioned chess national teams to register in the competition, to secure accommodation and to provide them any necessary assistance to obtain entry visas.
The letter addresses the shocking attempt by certain members of the Committee to replace delegates from Afghanistan and Gabon by hand-picked Kasparov loyalists/minions and insists that such loyalists be replaced, etc. ... A deadline of Monday at 11 am has been set to rectify this flagrant and egregious problem.
Originally posted by Jean-Marc Reymond
In view of the above, the attempt to prevent certain teams to participate in the Chess Olympiad and the entitled delegates to take part in the Congress appears as motivated only by political reasons and to gain an unfair advantage in the presidential election. This is of course inadmissible.
These inadmissible and unprecedented actions reveal that the way two members of the Organising Committee perform their duties is incompatible with requirements of impartiality and independence and must resign from the OC. Indeed, Ignatius Leong is on Gary Kasparov’s presidential ticket and is simultaneously Tournament Director and Morten Sand is at the same time Deputy Tournament Director and member of Garry Kasparov’s election campaig. FIDE believes that the recent decision and behavior of the OC are so grossly against FIDE regulations, FIDE past practice and FIDE spirit, that they reveal a complete bias and a concrete conflict of interests.
Within the same above mentioned deadline, FIDE therefore requests confirmation that these two members of the OC resigned and be replaced to give a chance to a fair Chess Olympiad and unbiased electoral process.
So Leong and Sand must go. Furthermore, FIDE will sue the members of the OC individually if they fail to comply here.
Originally posted by Jean-Marc Reymond
In case the OC would unfortunately not (i) reverse its decision of 16 July 2014, (ii) allow legitimate delegates to attend the FIDE Congress, (iii) exclude biased members and (iv) fully comply with the letter and the spirit of FIDE regulations, FIDE will (i) request urgent measures before the CAS and (ii) sue individually the members of the OC and/or signatories of the decision of 16 July 2014 for the financial damages caused by their infringements of FIDE regulations, in particular (but not only) if the Chess Olympiad in Tromsø must be cancelled and be held in
another country.
Copy of this letter is sent to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in his capacity of Patron of the
Chess Olympiad Tromsø 2014, for his information.
It must be an endgame if the King is involved in the action. I'd saythe jig is up for this latest Kasparovian trickery. An unsound attack may be about to be refuted.
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