Chessbase and Susan Polgar's blog have published a new letter by FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov that - ONCE AGAIN - totally ignores the thrust of the initial open letter written by the Georgian women chessplayers, which is their personal safety. ❋ Jan (2008)
I expected we would be forever enshrined in the Hall, next to the Miami Zoo, waiting for the visitors: the curious chessplayers and the accidental tourists who might stumble to the wrong side of the fence. ❋ Lubomir Kavalek (2011)
Are men better chessplayers, female chessplayers comments: ❋ Jan (2009)
Here are the other women who, in the world of female chessplayers, are the elite. ❋ Jan (2009)
*********************There are actually 15 female chessplayers who have earned the GM title. ❋ Jan (2009)
Like chessplayers, both dicators have moved the shiny new tanks towards the front. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Made two paintings on-site in coffeeshops and another of chessplayers in Rittenhouse Square. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Now, people will be "taking sides" and it bothers me the amount of ill will that this open letter will generate and, of course, those who disdain women chessplayers and "women's chess" will be sneering even more than usual. ❋ Jan (2008)
Going the way of the Phillipines, the Nigerian Chess Federation has invited 60 women and men chessplayers to participate in an event to decide who will represent the country at the upcoming Chess Olympiad to be held in Dresden, Germany starting in November. ❋ Jan (2008)
They are not chessplayers and probably did not understand the event. ❋ Jan (2008)
Here's a blast from the past story from Chessbase 2004 about a wonderful day of chess in Central Park, New York, with GM Susan Polgar, GM Lev Alburt, and hundreds of chessplayers all having a great time. ❋ Jan (2008)
With the great surge of popularity of chess in India and the success of its chessplayers on the international scene, will Dibyendu's comments have an affect? ❋ Jan (2008)
The Georgian players would be walking targets and the people who are running Russia now wouldn't care if there was "collateral" damage - so what if a few stupid women chessplayers from other countries get killed in the process of taking out the Georgian enemies of the state! ❋ Jan (2008)
The problem is, she's playing in the USA, and we don't support our chessplayers and certainly don't provide them with anything approaching a living should they choose to attempt to do so playing chess on a full-time basis. ❋ Jan (2008)
As for Joel Benjamin and Larry Christiansen, most chessplayers in the USA have no idea who the heck they are. ❋ Jan (2008)
Kirsan, why don't you fly your private jet into Georgia and pick up the Georgian chessplayers and cohorts, and fly them to Nalchik, personally guaranteeing their safety and providing body guards for the entire party. ❋ Jan (2008)
FIDE and Fearless Leader Kirsan have thus signalled their obvious contempt for female chessplayers of all nationalities, while kow-towing to the Russians. ❋ Jan (2008)
There is no denying that there are some very powerful chessplayers on this list - including some former SOVIET champions. ❋ Jan (2008)
He continued "Therefore, FL has hired relative of Rocky Flying Squirrel, graduate of Rambo Training School in Annapolis, Maryland, USA, to protect women chessplayers from all threats." ❋ Jan (2008)
