An Open Letter to AGON by Mr. Chris Wainscott Well, it’s finally here. After what seems like an interminable wait, the Candidates Tournament has begun. So far it’s been fairly exciting. Vishy getting off to an early lead in...
Open Letter of Georgian Chess Federation
Open letter To: The ECU board members,The National Chess Federations of European ContinentThe ECU SecretariatThe FIDE Secretariat Dear Friends, We would like to draw your attention to some important issues: As each and everyone of you, we also do...
Aronian open statement about Candidates Tournament
Levon Aronian, the winner of the Tata Steel Chess tournament and member of the 2800 club, submitted an open statement regarding the upcoming Candidates Tournament. The statement was received via the Armenian Chess Federation and regards a possible Candidates...
Open Letter by GM Kasimdzhanov – What’s your take?
Open letter with a proposal Dear chess friends, I am writing this open letter, addressed both to FIDE and the entire chess playing world, due to a certain crisis, in which our noble game finds itself lately. This crisis...
Message from GM Sébastien Feller
Message from GM Sébastien Feller Je conteste totalement les accusations de tricherie de la Fédération Française d’ Echecs. Cette procédure disciplinaire est en réalité liée au fait que j’ai soutenu lors des Olympiades, l’actuel président de la FIDE en...
Open letter regarding the Women’s World Chess Championship
I just received the following letter by one of the participants of the recent Women’s World Championship Open letter regarding the Women’s World Chess Championship 2010 in Antakya/HatayWe, the players of the Women’s World Chess Championship 2010 in Antakya/Hatay...
Open letter by IM Ilya Odessky
Илье Одесскому угрожают бандиты30 Окт, 2010 at 4:07 PM Илья Одесский – международный мастер по шахматам из Москвы, известный шахматный журналист, автор книг. Коллега и давний хороший знакомый. Вот его сегодняшнее (30 октября 2010) открытое письмо в шахматном форуме...
Shirov speaks
The following is an Open Letter / Press Release by GM A. Shirov (ChessBase.com): Let’s ban the FIDE I don’t know how many times I have said to myself that it makes no sense at all to keep getting...
Shirov responds to team Kamsky’s response
Kamsky turns 34 today Here is GM Shirov’s response on ChessBase: I do not quite understand why Mrs. Kamskaya used such words as “Shirov’s disturbing rumours” in her answer. I think I was just operating with public facts such...
Rybka Open Letter
Dear Chess Friends, Here is our response to Mr. Levy’s publication a “A lost Opportunity” A Lost Scandal I read David Levy’s article, A Lost Opportunity, with lively interest. [The] respected author, expected arbiter of the match Rybka –...