(Ever More) FIDE Follies
Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 8:28PM
Dennis Monokroussos

Maybe in the Netherlands, home base of Chess Vibes, they celebrate an April Fool's-style holiday in early September. (As everyone knows, April Fool's is only celebrated on April 1, right? Who would deviate from...never mind.) The reason for this pretend perplexity is a pair of peculiar pronouncements concerning FIDE.

First, we start with FIDE's Fearless Leader, Kirsan Iljumzhinov. According to this post, Iljumzhinov would like to buy New York's "Ground Zero" plot (i.e. the site where the World Trade Center's Twin Towers used to stand) and put a chess center there. Umm...sure.

Second, we read about the Khanty-Mansiysk (dis)organizers playing crazy, nearly last-minute games with the airline schedule. The closing line of that post is very good, but I won't ruin the surprise for you.

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