Mick Norris wrote: ↑Tue Nov 28, 2017 8:00 am
The 24-year-old IM Andrea Stella, who scored a GM norm in Montebelluna, was only reprimanded for rude behavior, and was urged not to repeat this.
Andrea Stella has just won the
Plzen Open in the Czech Republic though admittedly he didn't play anyone as highly rated as he is as you can see from his
results. As you can see he played Andrew Burnett from Scotland in the last round and Andrew had this to say on FB about the allegations:
"I lost to GM Andrea Stella in the final round of the Plzen Open in Czech on Saturday (I only needed a draw for 1st place outright
) and shared a bus ride to Prague with him on Sunday, during which he told me about all the allegations which had been made - describing them as nonsense and basically a bundle of lies from jealous fellow Italian players.
I don't think he knew yet that this verdict had been passed down by the Italian Federation Ethics Commission (or perhaps something was lost in translation during our conversation?!)
To be clear, I had never met him before this tournament but he certainly seems plenty strong enough as a player to not need to buy a norm.
I also noticed that Naumkin is due to play in a Czech event in January which I'll be playing :/ Anyway, topic worthy of discussion!"