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by Jonathan Bryant
Wed Mar 09, 2022 6:37 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: British Chess Problem Society Statement Regarding Ukraine
Replies: 29
Views: 3433

Re: British Chess Problem Society Statement Regarding Ukraine

... I thought that a poll might be in order. David, if you want to post a poll on this or any subject you should do so. I've not taken part though. I saw the statement on twitter yesterday or the day before (I forget - time is moving so fast these days) and realised I didn't know enough about the B...
by Jonathan Bryant
Tue Mar 08, 2022 8:33 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: ECF Bans Russians
Replies: 137
Views: 11132

Re: ECF Bans Russians

"What morally-acceptable steps would he recommend the ECF instead takes to deal with, for example, habitual cheats and players who display violent (verbal or physical) behaviour towards others?" I'm sure the ECF would like to know, just in case they wanted to start taking steps of this sort... Back...
by Jonathan Bryant
Tue Mar 08, 2022 7:04 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: ECF Bans Russians
Replies: 137
Views: 11132

Re: ECF Bans Russians

Putin may not be bothered .... Strongly disagree. The prospect of chernaiev not being able to play at Golders Green rapidplay (at least as a ‘Russian’) isn’t going to lead to tanks heading back to Moscow, true. Even so, there’s a reason the Russian defence minister is involved in the Russian chess ...
by Jonathan Bryant
Mon Mar 07, 2022 3:55 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow
Replies: 335
Views: 25885

Re: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow

... by common consent this is a far more risky and reckless course of action than his previous escapades. Risky and reckless? Maybe as we see it now. But from Putin’s pov before was there any reason to think he wouldn’t get another round of handwringing in response? As for ‘common consent’ there ar...
by Jonathan Bryant
Mon Mar 07, 2022 12:33 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: ECF Bans Russians
Replies: 137
Views: 11132

Re: ECF Bans Russians

... I'd be uncomfortable if the fact that we cannot do everything, became a reason for not doing anything. What's being argued is that action taken is a both substitute for taking meaningful action and a justification for not taking meaningful action. This sort of ploy works exactly because people ...
by Jonathan Bryant
Mon Mar 07, 2022 9:54 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: ECF Bans Russians
Replies: 137
Views: 11132

Re: ECF Bans Russians

EDIT: I see Lawrence has just linked to the FIDE announcement I had and my post is now redundant. So I will delete that part of my post and replace it with the opinion that banning the national - and perhaps club - Russian teams is significantly more important and appropriate that stopping individua...
by Jonathan Bryant
Mon Mar 07, 2022 3:29 am
Forum: International News
Topic: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow
Replies: 335
Views: 25885

Re: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow

Parkinson's is another rumour going around. I've seen various bits of speculation as to Putin's health. Often explicitly, sometimes implicitly linked to the question of why he would be behaving irrationally in choosing to invade Ukraine. The trouble with this line of thought is - ill or not - Putin...
by Jonathan Bryant
Sun Mar 06, 2022 8:45 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: ECF Bans Russians
Replies: 137
Views: 11132

Re: ECF Bans Russians

including Cherniaev, Alexander from Hackney Also of Barnet Knights in the 4NCL whose registration list now has him as FID rather than RUS. [my emphasis] Presumably as its 4NCL this is not counted as "ECF organised". Although given 4ncl leadership it would be odd if "the ECF Board urges all organise...
by Jonathan Bryant
Fri Mar 04, 2022 6:36 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow
Replies: 335
Views: 25885

Re: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow

Meanwhile ... Following announcements from Norway and London individually, The Grand Chess Tour say https://grandchesstour.org/blog/ukraine we believe Grandmaster Karjakin's actions are such that we can no longer associate our organization with him and It is our firm decision not to invite him or an...
by Jonathan Bryant
Fri Mar 04, 2022 4:45 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow
Replies: 335
Views: 25885

Re: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow

... Given that Putin is now wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court? I'm not sure that's true yet. I know various instances have been referred to ICC - and I wouldn't be at all surprised that it ends up as you suggest - but I haven't yet seen anything that says he's actually "want...
by Jonathan Bryant
Fri Mar 04, 2022 12:18 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow
Replies: 335
Views: 25885

Re: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow

... so we can now add the ECU to the list of sporting governing bodies with whom FIDE are out of step. And now the Nordic Chess Federation "The Nordic countries have agreed to join forces together to ban players of the Russian Federation and Belarus to take any part in international chess tournamen...
by Jonathan Bryant
Fri Mar 04, 2022 8:21 am
Forum: International News
Topic: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow
Replies: 335
Views: 25885

Re: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow

There is an emergency meeting of the Board of the European Chess Union today ... We wait to hear what the ECU have to say. And they said ... With immediate effect, ECU suspends the Russian and Belarusian Chess Federations. https://www.europechess.org/ecu-suspends-the-russian-and-belarusian-chess-fe...
by Jonathan Bryant
Fri Mar 04, 2022 6:27 am
Forum: International News
Topic: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow
Replies: 335
Views: 25885

Re: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow

I would prefer there to be some new national federation set up that dissenting Russians can join to make their dissent public and irrevocable .... On the point of dissent https://chess24.com/en/read/news/russian-chess-players-tell-putin-to-stop-the-war simply retweeting without comment a negative l...
by Jonathan Bryant
Thu Mar 03, 2022 5:45 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow
Replies: 335
Views: 25885

Re: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow

Lots of very ballsy Russian chess players not just saying "stop the conflict" or stop the war" in a general way but directly addressing their comments to Putin

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/russia ... op-the-war
by Jonathan Bryant
Thu Mar 03, 2022 5:00 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow
Replies: 335
Views: 25885

Re: 44th Chess Olympiad, Moscow

Nigel Short was interviewed yesterday on the recent FIDE Council decisions. ... it seems ... that he personally doesn't think FIDE have gone far enough .... I've just had the opportunity to listen to the interview in full. I have to say, I agree with Chris in that it very much seemed to me that Nig...