On Nov 2, 4:45 pm, " wrote:

FIDE, a 163-nation world chess body, has awarded its next 128-player
world championship to Libya in 2004. Jews are excluded.

This decision violates the spirit and charter of FIDE which says no
event will be held anywhere that bars entry to eligible players. The
announcement came with pictures of FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
playing chess with Moammar Al Qaddafi, who is offering about $2
million in prizes.

Money is the trump card, as usual. If the USA were not so
despised the world over, this would be something of an insult
in that "we" could not raise even more than "them". Of course,
they will not hold the event in the same country, over and over.


Qaddafi's son, who heads the organizing committee, stated: "We did not
invite nor will we invite the Zionist enemy to the competition."

Not all Jews are "Zionists". The choice of an Arab country
as venue brings to the fore such issues as this, and it is
most unfortunate that "we", the United States, are not in
a good position to step in and provide a solution.

Oddly enough, I believe if the situation had been reversed --
with Israelis playing and Arabs excluded -- the effect would
have been much smaller, and this only highlights the poor
judgment of going for Arab money over other considerations.


Boris Gulko, former champion of both the USSR and USA, is boycotting
the event along with most top players

Some of the top players were not involved in the cycle
at this particular stage, being seeded in later on. That,
along with quick time controls and the Israeli boycott,
made this event seem rather lame.


It's not the first time FIDE has bowed to Arab money. In 1986 the
Chess Olympiad was held in the United Arab Emirates where an Israeli
team was banned.

And where do these Arabs get all of that money?
A: from "us", the United States. We buy their oil, turn
it into gasoline or plastics, and consume it wantonly.


I note that Larry Parr attached an earlier post of mine to this
one, apparently believing that changing the subject would be
a good idea, rather than trying to defend GM Evans' choice of
examples. I agree. This was a much better example of FIDE
victimizing Jews; however, the motive appears to be money,
not anti-Jew bias. If say, Israel, were to offer to put up prize
money of ten million dollars for a future Olympiad, I expect
FIDE would leap on it and scr*w over the Arabs just as fast.
/That's just the way they are./

Arabs have lots of money on account of geography and our
addiction to oil, and they are spending it in the strangest of
ways. In the middle of a patch of desert there appears --
almost overnight -- a skyscraper, an underwater hotel, an
enclosed ski resort, etc. They have the money; they can
get whatever they want (why they would want chess
escapes me).


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