Fide Women’s Grand Prix Collapses into “Chaos” as Players Withdraw
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#2Is there a TL;DR, or is this just a complex clusterfuck? I was expecting standard Ukraine vs Russia issues, but the article goes on to describe what looks like a personal vendetta between two top Kazakh players, safety concerns about travel in Delhi, etc etc.
Re: Fide Women’s Grand Prix Collapses into “Chaos” as Players Withdraw
#3Is there a TL;DR, or is this just a complex clusterfuck? I was expecting standard Ukraine vs Russia issues, but the article goes on to describe what looks like a personal vendetta between two top Kazakh players, safety concerns about travel in Delhi, etc etc.
There is one on r/chess: https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/122wakh/fide_womens_...
Re: Fide Women’s Grand Prix Collapses into “Chaos” as Players Withdraw
#4Is there a TL;DR, or is this just a complex clusterfuck? I was expecting standard Ukraine vs Russia issues, but the article goes on to describe what looks like a personal vendetta between two top Kazakh players, safety concerns about travel in Delhi, etc etc.
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Re: Fide Women’s Grand Prix Collapses into “Chaos” as Players Withdraw
#5Hopefully it finishes, so women chess can retain a modicum of reputation
Re: Fide Women’s Grand Prix Collapses into “Chaos” as Players Withdraw
#6Is there a TL;DR, or is this just a complex clusterfuck? I was expecting standard Ukraine vs Russia issues, but the article goes on to describe what looks like a personal vendetta between two top Kazakh players, safety concerns about travel in Delhi, etc etc.
There is one on r/chess: https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/122wakh/fide_womens_...
Are these chess tournos usually this dramatic or was this just an atypical combination of geopolitics seeping into sport and other issues gaining purchase out of the sum of the chaos?
Re: Fide Women’s Grand Prix Collapses into “Chaos” as Players Withdraw
#7Hopefully it finishes, so women chess can retain a modicum of reputation
Women’s chess will be fine in any case. FIDE will take a hit.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is one on r/chess: https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/122wakh/fide_womens_...
Are these chess tournos usually this dramatic or was this just an atypical combination of geopolitics seeping into sport and other issues gaining purchase out of the sum of the chaos?
Chess, like any other highly competitive international sport has a lot of drama.
One of the big problems with it is that white is heavily advantaged, there's a large incentive for incumbents to play for a draw, and playing back-to-back matches is incredibly exhausting. Any attempts at correcting for this can result in an unfair set of rules for someone.
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#9Re: Fide Women’s Grand Prix Collapses into “Chaos” as Players Withdraw
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is one on r/chess: https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/122wakh/fide_womens_...
Are these chess tournos usually this dramatic or was this just an atypical combination of geopolitics seeping into sport and other issues gaining purchase out of the sum of the chaos?
Definitely not that atypical. Go read about Fischer v. Spassky, for instance.