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| Jun-06-10 | | BobCrisp: From <Persona Non Grata>, aka <Anti-Chess>, by Viktor Korchnoi (with Lenny Cavallaro): <On the subject of criminals, the Champion's father was caught stealing in 1975 while an engineer at a factory in Tula. He was threatened with trial and imprisonment. His son, who at the time was preparing for the World Championship in the same manner as his father (titles, as Bobby Fischer and I can attest, are as easily stolen as money!), managed to put a stop to the case and transfer his naughty father to a job in Leningrad.> |
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| Jun-12-10 | | theagenbiteofinwit: Someone who is more up on Karpov than I riddle me this: In the last interview I read Ilyumzhinov says this (about Karpov) <For the last 15 years I have sponsored him. Several millions of US dollars. I, personally, and the money of my friends-businessmen were aimed at the improving of living conditions of the 12th World champion, including the renovation of his apartment, buying chess and other materials which would raise his professional activities as a chess player.> I have always understood that Karpov has been extremely wealthy for quite some time, if not extremely wealthy, at least he had money enough that he didn't need any help renovating his home. |
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| Jun-22-10 | | Jim Bartle: Just found out by accident that Karpov and Kasparov are going to give simultaneous simuls tomorrow in a hall walking distance from my house. I guess it's part of Karpov's FIDE campaign. |
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Jun-22-10
 | | keypusher: <Jim Bartle: Just found out by accident that Karpov and Kasparov are going to give simultaneous simuls tomorrow in a hall walking distance from my house. I guess it's part of Karpov's FIDE campaign.> Wow, that would be something to see. |
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| Jun-22-10 | | MrMelad: Jim, if you are going, please tell Kasparov he is doing a great job with Carlsen. |
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| Jun-22-10 | | Jim Bartle: Maybe I'll invite them over to the house afterward, see if I can help them hash out that disagreement about the traitorous second. I don't think they are going to play each other, just play groups of juniors simultaneously. Unfortunately I can no longer disguise myself as a 12-year-old. |
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| Jun-23-10 | | MrMelad: <Unfortunately I can no longer disguise myself as a 12-year-old.> You can always put a wig on and disguise and 12 year old girl :) Just kidding... Good luck to Karpov in the race. I hope he crushes Kirsan and we'll never have to deal with an impotent FIDE ever again.. |
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Jun-25-10
 | | HeMateMe: From a recent report on the Havana 'Capa Memorial:
"...In his speech Ilyumzhinov announced to donate <500,000 US$ from his own fund >to organize two new events in the region: the Caribbean Cup and the Latin America Cup." Thats how you buy an election! Of course some of that money will go toward salaries of tournament officials, those who have a vote in the upcoming FIDE President elections. What would 'his own fund' be, exactly? Money that has already been looted from the Kalymuk treasury and is in his name, in a separate bank account, or money to be looted at a time of choosing in the future? I wish these people would be more specific in how they will pay for things they promise. |
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Jun-28-10
 | | Ron: Kirsan has to spend $500,000 to buy an election? Chicago politicians have a much cheaper method: have dead people vote. |
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Jun-29-10
| | HeMateMe: Is that how the Democrats rigged the 1960 election, to put Kennedy in the White House instead of Nixon? |
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| Jun-29-10 | | talisman: that and bootleg whiskey $. |
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Jun-29-10
| | HeMateMe: Well, it helps to have an old bootlegger like Jack Kennedy running your campaign. I think Nixon lost the state of Illinois by only 200,000 votes, cost him the presidency. Some improprieties regarding ballot boxes were suspected...Somewhere, Mayor Daly and Al Capone are smiling. |
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| Jun-30-10 | | swissfed: Russian Chess Legend Anatoly Karpov is the first chess player to ever appear on BigThink.com, a global forum connecting people and ideas.
Check it out !!
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... |
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Jul-03-10
| | HeMateMe: I used to work for the law firm that is representing team Karpov in this bit of intrigue (we used to call it 'White and Pillow Case'--heheehehehe) Now the giant international law firm <White & Case> (over 2,000 lawyers in 25 countries with more than 4,800 staff) has taken up the battle and sent a letter from to to FIDE Executive Director David Jarrett, detailing what they claim are false statements by the Ilyumzhinov campaign and demanding to see evidence that all of the Ilyumzhinov ticket's paperwork is in order. You can read the five-page letter, plus appendices, in PDF here. The White & Case letter concludes that there is a <serious question as to whether Mr. Ilyumzhinov has been a member of the Mexico or Argentina federation,> and Ms. Marinello of the Chile and Brazil federations, for at least one year before the General Assembly (as the election rules require), and whether Mr Ilyumzhinov has been actually nominated by any recognized procedure by the Russian Chess Federation. <"Legal action> is a step we will take with regret, but we have no choice if Ilyumzhinov and his campaign continue to publish misleading statements and if his administration continues to abuse the power of the incumbency to delegitimize the election process. FIDE has rules and Ilyumzhinov is not above them. They must provide evidence of the legitimacy of their candidacy, and this legitimacy cannot be bestowed by the candidates themselves." |
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| Jul-04-10 | | dunkenchess: A dictator is a dictator. He is always above the law. No legal action maybe can unseat him. |
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| Jul-04-10 | | Billy Ray Valentine: <swissfed: Russian Chess Legend Anatoly Karpov is the first chess player to ever appear on BigThink.com, a global forum connecting people and ideas. Check it out !!
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...;
This is a nice interview on a wide range of topics. One comment by Karpov I found interesting was that he described his own style as being "active positional," which he differentiated from Petrosian--whom he described as having a "purely positional" style. |
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Jul-08-10
| | Ron: A criticism of Karpov's campaign goes something like this: Karpov talks about the need for corporate sponsorship of chess but Karpov hasn't provided concrete details. Well, looks like Karpov has. See the end of this story in chessbase http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail... Ladies and Gentlemen, a Golden Age of chess is within our reach. |
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Jul-09-10
| | HeMateMe: are you Ron Henley? |
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Jul-09-10
| | Ron: <HeMateMe: are you Ron Henley?>
Alas, I an neither a grandmaster nor an advisor to Anatoly Karpov. |
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Jul-18-10
| | HeMateMe: Karpov has recently announced a $4 million aid program, chess for third world countries. He says this money will come from various 'corporate donors' (unnamed). Hmmmm....making promises with uncertain foundations...I daresay Anatoly is getting the hang of the politics game! |
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| Jul-19-10 | | Petrosianic: I dunno, chess has been funded on the backs of Kalmykian peasants for so long, that that seems like a much better foundation than Karpov's corporate sponsors. (Well, better for everyone except the peasants, that is.) |
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| Jul-30-10 | | M.D. Wilson: When do we find out if Karpov becomes Pres? |
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| Jul-30-10 | | BobCrisp: Last week in September, apparently. The election will take place <during the General Assembly of the FIDE Congress which take place during the 39th Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk (September 19th - October 4th 2010).> |
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| Jul-30-10 | | Petrosianic: Are they going to ban cell phones this time, so the delegates can't take a picture of their completed ballot to collect their bribe money? That was an issue last time, if you'll recall. |
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| Jul-30-10 | | BobCrisp: Are you seriously asking us to believe that the last FIDE Presidential election was decided with the assistance of bribery? |
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