Accusation against Alejandro Ramirez

[NickFaulks]

My distaste for this individual, a luminary at the St Louis Chess Club, has been well vented previously. However, I did not expect to see Jen Shahade out him as a serial predator on young female chess players.

https://twitter.com/JenShahade/status/1 ... de%3Dfalse

[Joey Stewart]

Sounds like you'll be having the last laugh against him if all these allegations lead to a prosecution.
Was this the same reason you personally disliked him or something else?

[LawrenceCooper]

https://www.chess.com/news/view/alejand ... misconduct

[NickFaulks]

Sounds like you'll be having the last laugh against him if all these allegations lead to a prosecution.

Good enough for me if he is just discredited and loses his position at St Louis Chess Club - presumably a good one to have.

Was this the same reason you personally disliked him or something else?

No, it was his post game interviews at the Sinquefield Cup.

but you have to wonder how long people are going to feel able to say stuff like this without either the evidence to back it up or any effective pushback.

By the way, I have felt that Ramirez' simpering questions to other players of "you are playing Niemann in round x, this must be very unsettling for you and how are you handling it?" have been beyond disgusting. Assuming St Louis chess survives this, I hope never to see the little creep there again - in future years, obviously.

It has been quite clear that Ramirez has all along seen this as a path to making a journalistic breakthrough by getting Niemann convicted as a cheat.

As I have been saying ad nauseam, the solution lies with CAS.

[MJMcCready]

But if we are being honest, what are the chances of him being the only titled player guilty of that charge.

[NickFaulks]

But if we are being honest, what are the chances of him being the only titled player guilty of that charge.

What is your point?

[Simon Rogers]

There is a lengthy post on this website:
https://sahmatlista.wordpress.com

[IM Jack Rudd]

Please will you start linking to the relevant subpages and not the websites as a whole.

https://sahmatlista.wordpress.com/2023/ ... ponasanja/

[Roger de Coverly]

Please will you start linking to the relevant subpages and not the websites as a whole.

You have to run Google translate or similar as well.

It's by Pete Doggers, so I expect there's an English original somewhere, possibly chess.com.

The accused player interveiwed Niemann in a manner said to have be biased and designed to make Niemann look bad.

[Kevin Thurlow]

"But if we are being honest, what are the chances of him being the only titled player guilty of that charge."

We don't know he is guilty. In answer, to your question, er, "zero"?

[Paul Cooksey]

It's by Pete Doggers, so I expect there's an English original somewhere, possibly chess.com.

https://www.chess.com/news/view/alejand ... misconduct

I think the allegations are so serious that our opinions on whether he is a good or bad broadcaster are not relevant.

[Simon Rogers]

Please will you start linking to the relevant subpages and not the websites as a whole.

https://sahmatlista.wordpress.com/2023/ ... ponasanja/

Sorry, Jack.
As I mentioned a couple of times before, I have problems with my links as I only have access to the forum and the Internet from my mobile phone.
I always try to post the correct link wherever I can.
Any help will be much appreciated.
I have found a lot of events to post in the Congress Diary Category. I will try to post the direct link but may need some help from forum members.
Many thanks, Simon.

[Mick Norris]

It's by Pete Doggers, so I expect there's an English original somewhere, possibly chess.com.

https://www.chess.com/news/view/alejand ... misconduct

I think the allegations are so serious that our opinions on whether he is a good or bad broadcaster are not relevant.

Agree with this, though I'm not sure that's what Nick meant upthread

[NickFaulks]

Agree with this, though I'm not sure that's what Nick meant upthread

My complaint is not that he is a bad commentator,* but that he abused his privileged position as an postgame interviewer for personal advancement. I knew nothing about his alleged abuse of his position as a senior chess coach in relation to young female students, but given what I already did know about his character I do not find it all that surprising.

* Which I do think he is, relying heavily on "this is a blunder, the computer says it is -1.3".

[MJMcCready]

But if we are being honest, what are the chances of him being the only titled player guilty of that charge.

What is your point?

I can think of a certain English GM with a far worse reputation than him, I'm sure you know who I mean. Unfortunately, some of us have seen him in action firsthand on that front, and more than once or twice.