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Jul-14-22
 | | MikhailGolubev: << if I'm informed correctly, there is quite a bit of resentment in Latin America about the attention given to Russia's attack >> Do you mean that for the Latin Americans things that Russia is doing in Ukraine are just normal and don't deserve much attention?! |
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Jul-14-22
| | MikhailGolubev: << More likely, he has the same interest in Russia - Ukraine conflict as Westerners have in the Kashmir >> Any informed person normally has interest in the Kashmir conflict, because, hypothetically, the nuclear war can happen because of it. And an international sport official on the high position should have not only interest but also an opinion on such a sensitive issue. |
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| Jul-15-22 | | Olavi: <MikhailGolubev: << if I'm informed correctly, there is quite a bit of resentment in Latin America about the attention given to Russia's attack >> Do you mean that for the Latin Americans things that Russia is doing in Ukraine are just normal and don't deserve much attention?!> No, clearly I do not mean that, my wording was perhaps inexact. I can, however, appreciate possible frustration when the same doesn't seem to deserve much attention when it happens elsewhere, at the moment Yemen being the obvious land to mention. |
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Jul-25-22
| | MikhailGolubev: <No, clearly I do not mean that, my wording was perhaps inexact. I can, however, appreciate possible frustration when the same doesn't seem to deserve much attention when it happens elsewhere, at the moment Yemen being the obvious land to mention.> As far as I know there's a civil war in Yemen, not that one recognised country is trying to occupy lands of another recognised country, the latter case creates more serious challenges for the world's stability. As Ukraine hardly ever was in position to intervene in the Yemen war. I must confess that I have no opinion about who are good and bad guys there. I even don't have a generalised opionion on whether the world MUST intervene into every civil war. From my personal perspective, for Ukraine the civil war would have been a dream scenario in comparison with a Russian's aggression that started in 2014. We would have had everything fixed long ago in such case. |
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Jul-26-22
| | MikhailGolubev: https://theweekinchess.com/html/twi... Odesa Blitz - Chess Day 2022 (The Week in Chess 1446) |
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| Jul-28-22 | | Olavi: <MikhailGolubev: <No, clearly I do not mean that, my wording was perhaps inexact. I can, however, appreciate possible frustration when the same doesn't seem to deserve much attention when it happens elsewhere, at the moment Yemen being the obvious land to mention.> As far as I know there's a civil war in Yemen, not that one recognised country is trying to occupy lands of another recognised country, the latter case creates more serious challenges for the world's stability. As Ukraine hardly ever was in position to intervene in the Yemen war. I must confess that I have no opinion about who are good and bad guys there. I even don't have a generalised opionion on whether the world MUST intervene into every civil war. From my personal perspective, for Ukraine the civil war would have been a dream scenario in comparison with a Russian's aggression that started in 2014. We would have had everything fixed long ago in such case.> The situation is far more complicated than in Ukraine, but Saudi-Arabia has been bombing Yemeni civilians mercilessly for years (according to the US congress, among others - and Biden just had good talks with bin Salman), and according to the UN the situation is the worst humanitarian catastrophe at the moment (well over 400 000 killed, to start with), largely because of Saudi and UAE actions. It is clear that the Yemen war represents no particular threat to the international order. One reason is that we Westerners don't care. Clearly there are other reasons as well, but trying to be a moral agent, one can not close one's eyes to that. |
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Aug-05-22
| | MikhailGolubev: 2 <Olavi> Well I'm not a fan of the Saudi Arabia regime, that's for sure. Some time ago, perhaps in 2021, I got an offer to participate in some related chess project, but declined it. But no doubt that they found some other chess GM easily. |
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Aug-05-22
| | MikhailGolubev: one good online tournament result for me, Chess.com-Global-Championship-Play-In-Qualifier--
15 https://www.chess.com/tournament/li... (7 pts out of 9, it would have been better to win in the final round instead of draw, still) |
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| Aug-06-22 | | Olavi: <MikhailGolubev: 2 <Olavi> Well I'm not a fan of the Saudi Arabia regime, that's for sure. Some time ago, perhaps in 2021, I got an offer to participate in some related chess project, but declined it. But no doubt that they found some other chess GM easily.> This seems to be the talk of the town in the world of golf at the moment. |
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Aug-12-22
| | MikhailGolubev: <Olavi> Sorry, I know the name Tiger Woods, but otherwise I'm distant from golf as much as possible. I even can't be sure that ever I saw on photo anyone of my compatriots, whom I know, during the golf play. Nothing to say about seeing the golf in real life. Still, I saw it in some 500 Hollywood movies, indeed. |
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Aug-12-22
| | MikhailGolubev: Definitely I'll not play over the board against any actual representative of the Chess Federation of Russia until the end of Russian aggression against Ukraine and liberation of all Ukrainian lands, occupied in 2022. I almost don't play OTB anymore, but I boycott Russians anyway. |
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Aug-16-22
| | MikhailGolubev: "Gambit Publications is proud to have published many books by Ukrainian chess writers over the last 25 years. Gambit continues to reissue chess books in print format". Chess: Ukrainian Authors https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B29HCFJ... I wrote 3 books for Gambit + one, the 1st, for Everyman/Gambit. |
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Aug-16-22
 | | OhioChessFan: Are there any Russian players you're on friendly terms with who you'd regret not playing? |
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Aug-17-22
| | MikhailGolubev: <OhioChessFan> Nope. )) |
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Sep-22-22
| | MikhailGolubev: I will play in a rapid chess tournament in Kyiv on 24-25 Sep 2022. https://chess-results.com/tnr672612... |
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Sep-22-22
| | OhioChessFan: This is your first OTB rapid tournament in a while? |
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Sep-28-22
| | MikhailGolubev: <OhioChessFan> Earlier this year I played in a round robin blitz tournament in Odessa, not FIDE rated. It was a Memorial of father of WGM Anjelina Belakovskaia (multiple US women's champion), her brother still lives in Odessa and co-organised this tournament. Before that, I played two rated blitz tournaments in 2020. |
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Sep-28-22
| | OhioChessFan: Early reports from the Kremlin state 106% of Ukrainian voters said yes to being annexed by Russia. |
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Oct-27-22
| | MikhailGolubev: Chess despite the war: The Anfield Cup in Kyiv https://en.chessbase.com/post/chess... |
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Oct-28-22
| | OhioChessFan: Glad to hear that. Let the intellectual and cultural pursuits carry on in the face of adversity. |
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Nov-19-22
| | MikhailGolubev: ... There are numerous effects from the *emancipation of the ignorant majority* [in the Internet]. And popularity of the idiotic chess openings is clearly not the worst of them, even if it illustrates some overall trends nicely. https://chess.com/article/view/what... #Bongcloud |
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Nov-19-22
 | | fredthebear: Chess streamers take it to the extremes to garner attention, subscribers. |
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Nov-23-22
| | MikhailGolubev: New personal best in the Titled Tuesday blitz tournaments: 8/11, 14th place. https://chess.com/tournament/live/l... Show must go on?! |
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Nov-27-22
| | MikhailGolubev: Kids from the #Odessa #Odesa 🇺🇦 #chess school, playing chess in the bomb shelter during the air raid alert time.
Article (in Ukrainian) by journalist Dmitriy Bogomolov
https://odesa.novyny.live/odesskie-..., incl. video and interview with the chess club director Igor Gorbunov. |
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Nov-29-22
| | OhioChessFan: <New personal best in the Titled Tuesday blitz tournaments: 8/11, 14th place> A tournament where Naroditsky finished 20th? Pretty tough competition. |
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