From left to right: F. Campomanes, B. Kok and K. Ilyumzhinov. This picture was taken at the Olympiad in Turin, Italy.
Bessel and Kirsan are engaged in a bitter election for the Presidency of FIDE. Here are their campaign websites:
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov Chess Fidelity
Bessel Kok Right Move
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Enemies united?
Kiss and make up?
“I keep telling you, if we wait for the Olympiad webpage to load we’ll miss the second week of the Olympiad also.”
‘Chess makes strange bedfellows’
How can I see the Olympiad games live? I downloaded JAVA, and still nothing, I see empty four rectangles with no chess boards.
“Wow! We just can’t get enough great pictures of Susan!”
@anonym – don’t use IE but Firefox instead …
back to topic:
“sexus una sumus! Or: We are related in gender, thus our behaviour is gender-related!”
King Kong vs. Godzilla?
Kirsan: “I found an open letter proving a scandal in one of your supporting federations!”
Bessel: “Where”
Kirsan: “In an issue of The National Enquirer.”
Bessel: “That’s a tabloid, you moron.”
Kirsan: “Thanks. I can’t tell the difference between an open letter by an anonymous author on the net and a major investigation into an issue.”
Excuse me. Please replace ‘anonymous’ in that last post with ‘someone who could be lying’.
“Sooooo….that’s Kosteniuk’s real hair color?”
“You see, you chaps haven’t got a chance of winning! I now know that this piece can only move forward, and this one diagonally, this one back and forth…”
“Oh goodee! They’ve tuned in the Teletubbies!”