English Chess Forum

Andrew, Two posts again today. However, the first is more for clarification. I am not expecting a reply. I know it goes with the territory, but here I am being held to an Anglo-Saxon level of scrutiny; you can't apply a 'sovok' level of insinuation and innuendo. 'Sovok', as opposed to 'clarity, prec...

Andrew, To cut to the chase, as you Americans put it, I have pruned some of your post in this follow-up. I know it goes with the territory, but here I am being held to an Anglo-Saxon level of scrutiny; you can't apply a 'sovok' level of insinuation and innuendo. Murky is one of those words that is f...

Andrew, I shall post twice today, this first, concerning the shift in venue from Chelyabinsk to London, is to satisfy my curiosity. It's possible you have nothing you wish to add. I know you were playing piggy in the middle of a Kremlin bun fight. Out of the blue, for some reason having to do with t...

Simon, do you really think that while still secretly plotting with AP in order to steer the ENG vote from GK to himself, then KI openly tells a newspaper about it as a done deal? If the article quotes KI claiming support from Switzerland, England, France and Spain while KI only has official support...

Simon, Happy to answer your questions. But, try to be more concrete and less allusive if you expect answers to be concrete and substantive. Andrew, In the land of Roman Malinovskii, Zubatov trade unions and the Potemkin Village it goes with the territory. You know that. "... for instance, there is ...

Sean Hewitt gave a link to an article in the grotesquely misnamed Nezavisimaya (i.e. The Independent . It has nothing to do with the UK newspaper of that name). The Russian Independent is controlled by the Kremlin. Towards the bottom of that January interview, as highlighted by Sean, there is: ВаÑ...

For those who are still unsure: I do not support and never have supported either Ilyumzhinov or Kasparov for President of FIDE. I have publicly stated that I advocate abstention to demonstrate disapproval of both ..... It goes without saying that my opinion/vote is but one of 9 votes on the ECF Boa...

To avoid trouble with the limits on embedding quotes, I have snipped some of the discussion. The reader can read up-thread for the context. Malcolm Pein, Sean Hewitt and Alex Holowczak, among others, were eager to be put on Commissions under this initiative. 2) I have met with the main Chess in Scho...

REF Andrew Paulson wrote: Note: Malcolm Pein, Sean Hewitt and Alex Holowczak, among others, were eager to be put on Commissions under this initiative. Sean Hewitt wrote: I cannot speak for others, but in my case this is demonstrably false. It is also demonstrably false in my case. It's just more no...

That's a fascinating blog post, thanks for posting the link. Hopefully Mike will be able to remember more details and what language was used. On a minor point, with the spelling Petrosian vs Petrosyan, is it best to keyword both spellings or will most search engines find both? I'm asking because I ...

Having just finished my postgraduate course in computer science I hitchhiked to Bath and got to discuss computers and chess with Petrosian who correctly forecast the major role that games databases would have in the game. (I thought he was bonkers.) Mike, just out of idle curiosity, can you recall ...

We live, dead to the land beneath us, Ten steps away, no one hears our speeches, But where there's so much as half a conversation The Kremlin's mountaineer will get his mention. His fingers are fat as grubs And the words, final as lead weights, fall from his lips, His cockroach whiskers leer And hi...

Or listen (worthwhile if only to hear the pronunciation of Alekhine). A good rule of thumb on such matters is to check Edward Winter's website first. On page http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter21.html there is CN 4284: Below is a reference to Alekhine from page 184 of Grandmasters of Chess by...

Having just finished my postgraduate course in computer science I hitchhiked to Bath and got to discuss computers and chess with Petrosian who correctly forecast the major role that games databases would have in the game. (I thought he was bonkers.) Mike, just out of idle curiosity, can you recall ...

Obviously the new board members have to settle in and receive a full handover from the previous incumbent. I trust I have not yet exhausted my "teasing" credit with Andrew, who possesses the merit of being well meaning; for what he suggests has at times been a pious belief of the innocent, rather t...