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| Jan-03-20 | | Absentee: <AylerKupp: Have you already forgotten "The Russians have Fixed World Chess" after Curacao and all of Fischer's whining when he finished in 4th place after claiming that he would win the tournament before it started?> Either you're intentionally misrepresenting the facts or you suffer from some kind of selective blindness. What Fischer said was that Soviet players drew when facing other and saved their energy for foreign opponents, him in particular. Which, admittedly, was true, and was confirmed afterwards by several of the parties involved. In another universe, this might equate to "he blamed others for his losses", in this one, despite many other sad occurrences in Fischer's career, it does not. |
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| Jan-03-20 | | Diademas: <MissScarlett: <Firouzja who had attended the world competitions under FIDE flag, received 10.5 points in rapid category and ranked second.
After defeating Azeri rival, the Iranian player ranked second. Belgian chess player ranked first.>
https://en.irna.ir/news/83612116/Ir... More fun from the same page:
<Meanwhile, Sara Sadat Khadem al-Sharieh received two silver medals in rapid and blitz categories.> She placed 9th. in the blitz section and 29th. in rapid. |
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Jan-03-20
 | | MissScarlett: The Iranians are playing it cool....if they make Firouzja a non-person, it could become awkward if he were to progress to the top of the game. |
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Jan-03-20
 | | Gypsy: <The Iranians are playing it cool....if they make Firouzja a non-person, it could become awkward if he were to progress to the top of the game.> Perhaps. However, they also have many things of greater weight on their plate so they may be letting this one slide. |
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Jan-03-20
| | MissScarlett: Are you suggesting Ali still needs to keep an eye out for well-dressed men brandishing umbrellas? |
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Jan-04-20
 | | keypusher: <Which, admittedly, was true, and was confirmed afterwards by several of the parties involved.> The parties involved were Geller, Keres, and Petrosian, none of whom confirmed anything of the kind. The main victims appeared to be non-foreigners Tal and Korchnoi. Petrosian in particular played with a striking lack of energy against Fischer, which is why he scored only +1 against him. |
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| Jan-04-20 | | Absentee: < keypusher: <Which, admittedly, was true, and was confirmed afterwards by several of the parties involved.> The parties involved were Geller, Keres, and Petrosian, none of whom confirmed anything of the kind. The main victims appeared to be non-foreigners Tal and Korchnoi. Petrosian in particular played with a striking lack of energy against Fischer, which is why he scored only +1 against him.> And Averbakh and Korchnoi, who did. |
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| Jan-10-20 | | Whitehat1963: It’s going to be interesting and revealing to see how he performs at Tata Steel, which will serve as his coming out party. |
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Jan-10-20
| | MissScarlett: So that’s why he fled Iran. |
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| Jan-10-20 | | Diademas: That was actually quite funny <MissScarlett>. Let's hope his "coming out party" will not be too revealing... |
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| Jan-11-20 | | EdwinKorir: He starts his first super tournament with a win |
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Jan-11-20
 | | moronovich: This guy can go places... |
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| Jan-11-20 | | Messiah: Hopefully he will not become a rude and obnoxious child. |
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Jan-11-20
 | | perfidious: More places than that presumptuous whelp, the self-styled messiah, whose involvement in temporal matters at every turn is bizarre behaviour indeed for someone who should have no truck with mere mortals. |
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| Jan-11-20 | | Whitehat1963: <More places than that presumptuous whelp, the self-styled messiah, whose involvement in temporal matters at every turn is bizarre behaviour indeed for someone who should have no truck with mere mortals.> Good lord, who are we talking about? |
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Jan-11-20
| | moronovich: <Good lord, who are we talking about?> The son of the Good Lord. |
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Jan-12-20
| | MissScarlett: <Iran's only female Olympic medallist, Kimia Alizadeh, says she has defected. Alizadeh, 21, posted on social media that she had left Iran because she didn't want to be part of "hypocrisy, lies, injustice and flattery". She described herself as "one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran". Alizadeh did not say where she was, amid reports that she has been training in the Netherlands. She made history for Iran in 2016 when she won a bronze medal in taekwondo at the Rio Olympics.> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-mi... |
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| Jan-13-20 | | PhilFeeley: <MissScarlett>: Good for her. I hope Firouzja does something similar. |
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Jan-13-20
 | | beatgiant: I'm aware of the following Iranian competitors who have recently decided to stop playing for Iran and stay in Europe. Aug. 2018: Iranian wheelchair basketball championship team member Saman Balaghi sought asylum in Germany. July 2019: Pourya Jalalipour (archery para-olympian) sought asylum in the Netherlands. Sept. 2019: Saeid Mollaei (judo olympian) remained in Germany and quit playing for Iran. Dec. 2019: Alireza Firouzja remained in France and quit playing for Iran. Jan. 2020: Kimia Alizadeh (taekwondo olympian) remained in an undisclosed location (rumored Netherlands) and quit playing for Iran. |
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Jan-13-20
 | | alexmagnus: Another Iranian to defect is the current referee of the women's world chess championship. The reason, by the way, is interesting in her case. She was accused of not wearing a hijab (although she did). Out of protest she actually stopped wearing it and said she will not return to Iran. |
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Jan-13-20
| | beatgiant: If we are counting referees too, then also Alireza Faghani, a FIFA soccer referee has moved to Australia, although I can't quickly find any info about the reasons and circumstances. |
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Jan-14-20
 | | FSR: He may well succeed Ding Liren as world champion. |
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| Jan-14-20 | | EdwinKorir: So far so good, leading TATA Steel after 3 rounds. The future is bright. |
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| Jan-14-20 | | torrefan: gotta wear shades |
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Jan-14-20
 | | Fusilli: Sometime soon I plan to edit his bio. There is too much about the 2016 World Youth Chess Olympiad, including other players' results, that I plan to clean up. Inviting proposals on information you think should be in his bio and is not there already. Any input? |
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