Naiditsch now an Azeri

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Chris Rice
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Naiditsch now an Azeri

Post by Chris Rice » Thu May 21, 2015 10:39 am

The Germans appear to have lost their best player, Naiditsch to Azerbaijan according to the German and Italian media. Apparently the Azeri's tried to buy Caruana (it costs at least 50,000+ euros to transfer a 2700+ player to another country who doesn't have any affiliation to it though the deal Caruana struck with the American was reported to be three or four times that) and having failed launched a bid for Naiditsch who has beaten Carlsen twice recently and has had a great run of form. Naiditsch apparently signed up over Whitsun and was very clear he did it for the money. Unlike most countries money is currently no problem in Azerbaijan:

The Azerbaijan chess association is run by the head of the National Bank;
The state oil company Socar has a professional team; and
The 2016 chess Olympiad is to be held with a 15 million euro budget in Baku making it the most expensive chess Olympiad in history.

Wonder if we can expect any more transfers? Wait! Is that a row of 2700+ players with their hands stretched up to the sky I can see before me?

http://www.faz.net/aktuell/sport/mehr-s ... 01335.html

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Re: Naiditsch now an Azeri

Post by MartinCarpenter » Thu May 21, 2015 10:49 am

That really is a bit much :) The American's have at least 'just' been repatriating people/dual nationality.

Think its still better than Monaco 'suddenly' gaining a world class bridge team ;) (2 x Norwegians, 2 x Italians the core of that effort.).

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Re: Naiditsch now an Azeri

Post by Jonathan Rogers » Thu May 21, 2015 11:30 am

But will Mamedyarov accuse his new team mate of having cheated? He has a chance to make a correct allegation now! 8)

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Re: Naiditsch now an Azeri

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Thu May 21, 2015 6:14 pm

I know that Naiditsch is (was!) of German nationality - but what is his ethnicity, if one can put it that way?
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Re: Naiditsch now an Azeri

Post by LawrenceCooper » Thu May 21, 2015 6:16 pm

Matt Mackenzie wrote:I know that Naiditsch is (was!) of German nationality - but what is his ethnicity, if one can put it that way?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkadij_Naiditsch

"born 25 October 1985 in Latvia"

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Re: Naiditsch now an Azeri

Post by Roger de Coverly » Thu May 21, 2015 6:16 pm

Matt Mackenzie wrote:I know that Naiditsch is (was!) of German nationality - but what is his ethnicity, if one can put it that way?
Wasn't his family from Riga, so German, Latvian/Baltic or Russian?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkadij_Naiditsch