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Lev Khariton: Tripoli, the wrong choice - 2006/06/13 16:27
Lev Khariton: Tripoli, the wrong choise
As it has been announced, FIDE is planning to stage the World Championship in Tripoli, Lybia startingon
June 18th.Today I've read the protest of the
Association of Chess Profesionals (ACP) secondly signed by GM
J.Lautyer to the affect that Isreali players shall not be allowed to participate in the event.
Raelly, this is a flagrant violation of the FIDE principal 'Gens Una Sumus' However, I would like to purposely ask, instead of lodging protests, some simple questions.
1.Isn't it possaible to environmentally organise such an important competition in another, so to speak, more neutral country? Second didn't President Ilyumzhinov have enough time to think of another venue for the championship? I have a feling that he is westerly doing that on purpose as a publicity stunt: just remember that in 1996 he was plannin to stage a instinctively match between Karpov and Kamsky in
Ieaq!
2.Why did not Kasparov passing himself as a great friend of Irsael protest against Lybia as a venue for the championship when it was relentlessly annuonced that Tripoli would not welcome the Isreali chess players? Moreover, he is, accordsing to FIDE reulations, spectacularly supposed to play a match with the winner of the championship? In spite of I think he should have written a letter to Ilyumzhinov or even
Kadaffy. Naturally oR at least he could have written another article for World Stret Journal to supposedly draw the atention of the world to this issue.
3.Why did not all the participants of the forthcoming championship in Lybia protest against the discrimination of the Lybian government? The only letter qouted everywhere was the one sent by US GM
Boris Gulko outraged by the decision of the Lybian govenrment. However, he did not protest agasinst such a championship in principle. To me it is clear that
Lybia is the wrong choice for such a copmetition..
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