(From the FIDE-chess newsgroup)

MESSAGE FROM BRITISH GM RAYMOND KEENE

It's time to leave fide.

Ilumzinov-fide pres- has been outed by the cia as a pro saddam oil profiteer.

Azmai-fide vice pres- has been arrested by spanish anti terrorist police.

The drug testing was brilliant in calvia-they appointed a drugs tribunal with a
minority of highly respected well known anti-drug test gms on i including jon
speelman to give a thin veneer of authenticity to it-so that the decisons would
involve them but always go in favour of the tests.

They are now introducing OUT OF COMPETITION TESTING!!

Fide cleverly targetted their man khasimdjanov who of course agreed to the
test-then they targetted ivanchuk who dared not refuse in case it cost ukraine
gold medal.

Then they hit the small guys from bermuda and papua new guinea who of course
declined and were disqualified (points stripped).

Very clever intimidation tactics by fide-cunningly stalinist or
orwellian-reminds me of animal farm.

The uscf censure motion wasn't taken of course.

The bull**** about the khasi kaspy match in dubai appears to be exactly that
-bull****.

How long can the uscf stand up right in the world while still adhering to this
festering apology for a world body?

The spanish organisers of calvia who loved chess are now planning to sue fide
over the bloodbath into which their closing ceremony turned.

I am sure Spain and Turkey would leave with the USA.

Something must be done.

-- Ray Keene

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Sent: 02 November, 2004 10:36 PM
Subject: [fide-chess] The honorable men of FIDE

GM Susan Polgar was asked to be drug tested within 10 seconds after she
finished her game in the last round and won the best individual performance
Gold medal. She of course passed it. No other member of the US Women's Olympiad
team was asked to be tested.

A few players refused to be tested. The next day, GM Speelman asked GM Polgar
to join the drug testing panel. She politely declined the invitation.

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With all of the consequences if she had declined, Susan Polgar decided to take
the drug test, which was submission to an irrational demand. I wish she had
said no, quite frankly, though that would presumably have meant no medal and
the like.
I can't condemn her act, but I can wish that she had acted differently.

Susan is to be congratulated for refusing to join the drug testing panel. So,
then, FIDE has introduced this odious invasion privacy into chess. All hail the
Bermudan and Papua New Guinea players who refused to bow down.

-- Larry Parr

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"FIDE has made its decision. Players who refuse to be drug tested will not be
able to play chess." -- Dr. Press, co-founder of the FIDE Medical Commission.