FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and his Holiness Alexey II, Patriarch of Russia.
The two agreed that it is necessary to continue developing chess among children and youth.
Source: FIDE.com
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Two criminals!
Not to be rude, but His Holiness kind of resembles ‘The Dude’ from “The Big Lebowski”
>>Two criminals!
Uh huh. Have you ever actually heard of this Alexey II guy before, or are you just guessing?
Just guessing, I think. People on the internet are more comfortable stating guesses as facts because they believe that even if they’re wrong, they won’t have to answer for it. The Internet and the Honor System don’t exactly go together.
What I want to know is if this Alexey guy is a King’s Bishop or a Queen’s Bishop, and what color is he? He’s got a white hat and black robes.
How is Kirsan a criminal?
Alexey is a KGB man. He did a lot of bad things.
Kirsan’s robbed the Kalmik nation and became a kind of Kalmik khan.
Yes, he gave a lot of money to chess, but anyway he is a criminal.
>>Alexey is a KGB man. He did a lot of bad things.>>
Well, I guess an anonymous guy on the internet couldn’t possibly lie or be mistaken about a thing like that. I’m convinced, I don’t even need to see any links or evidence. Bad things, you say? SHUDDER.
In Russian and some other Eastern European chess sets, the Bishops have tops of the opposite color. This photo may explain why, if white headdress and black robes (and their inverse) are customary Eastern Orthodox dress.
Thus Patriarch Alexey II would be a Black Bishop.
Since Russia does not have a king (or tsar, a word which I think comes ultimately from “Caesar”!), he cannot be the King’s Bishop. But he *can* be the Queen’s Bishop! This is because the Russian word for the chess queen, “fyerz”, is not a female monarch or king’s wife! Instead, it corresponds to the English word “vizier”. This word means an /advisor/ or cabinet minister—possibly to a King or Sultan or Caliph but also more generally—and in the form “wazir/vazir” is still used in Pakistan.
Ken Regan wrote:
>>In Russian and some other Eastern European chess sets, the Bishops have tops of the opposite color.>>
Yeah, I’ve seen sets like that. I had a friend of Russian extraction who even took the heads off two Bishops, and changed the top of ONE Bishop on each side to that of the opposite color. The color of the top indicated what color square they moved on.
>>But he *can* be the Queen’s Bishop! This is because the Russian word for the chess queen, “fyerz”, is not a female monarch or king’s wife! Instead, it corresponds to the English word “vizier”. This word means an /advisor/ or cabinet minister—
>>
Hmmm. Would Kirsan himself qualify as a fyerz? If he would, the mystery is solved.
What happened to all the pieces on the board?