This is going to sound a little discouraging, but if you ask the next 100 people you see under age 30 to tell you what the word Nazi means to them, I bet not many of them could tell you very much. She might not be getting much grief about it at all. Immediately after WWII it would be have been a bigger deal, but these days the unusual seems to be the new norm with people naming their kids after movie and TV vampires and werewolves or LotR characters, etc.

I certainly haven't heard of any noise in the chess world about it. Everyone seems focused on her games and championship victory.

P Simacek vs N Paikidze, 2010

played in round 8 of the 2010 Wroclaw Chess Festival

White has just played 6.g3.

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Nazi Paikidze played 6...Nd7.

(but look, someone has slipped her a note about the possibility of playing a7....)

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I once saw, a local supermarket, a young woman (Indian) at the checkout whose name tag said: "Swastika" which I supposed was a fairly typical Nazi, ooops! I meant Indian name....but she probably had no knowledge of the 2nd WW unless she studied history or something.

Re forgetting things, I wish over here they'd stop all this crap about the ANZACS in the horrific balls up (one of Churchill's brainwaves) in the greater horror of WWI...

But indeed, a lot of people under 30 probably don't know or care much about WWII. Who remembers the Crimean War and who fought in it (Tolstoy did for a start in Sebastopol, it was horrific, he writes about it in stories of the Caucusus, they are very good in fact: but which nations? Who wrote the Charge of the Light Brigade and what was it all about? (Into the valley of death road the brave five hundred, canons to right of them, canons to left of them, stormed at with shot and shell...rousing but not one of Tennysons's most celebrated works)...And what famous nurse? And who wrote about her? What modern movie featured the man who wrote about her and others of her time?) Boer war? Who was Kitchener? Did he want to send 40,000 men women and children to the West Indies as slaves? And who protested this proposal? When was the US-Mexican War? (I remember some of these dates as I relate them to my birthday)...Or the Balkan war of 1912 (from memory it was as it preceded WWI)? The Japanese-Russian war and who won (1906 or sometime near then)? Or the Peloponnesian war, and who won? And so on...?

I think those women who are refusing to go are acting in their own conscience and beliefs. And I understand their feelings.

Some women will think otherwise and go to experience what it is like there (even in a small way) and what it is like to wear a hijab. It is all not so clear.

However, we have to be wary. The outside 'attacks' on Iran ignore that we in the West are in glass houses.

A long list of nations could be comiled for boycott. The other side, that women in Iran might benefit from seeing women there...

In fact, if women had courage, and believed in their cause, they would go, and refuse to wear the Hajib "en masse" so to speak. That would show that sufficient were opposed to it. Prima facie it is a pretty crazy law the Moslems have...

That said, I understand that they have strong religious views and traditions. They are probably beginning to change...soon they'll be able to participate in sex movies like the liberated US women and men. That will be progress? Perhaps. They will be free? To do what, look sexy etc if they are?

Paikidze finished 5th equal from a field of 77 players>

I play this opening a lot esp. in Blitz, looking forward to the line (well there are some good traps if Black doesn't know them). At one stage Fischer used this line as White. A good alternative is to head for the Panov-BOtvinnik. Black here I think has played about the best line for Black. That line was the same when Fischer played Petrosian (twice) and in one is a great game in his book 40 Memorable Games when they both got 2 Queens! It was a draw. In the other I think Fischer lost.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/10/0...

FIDE: https://ratings.fide.com/topfed.pht...

USCF: http://www.uschess.org/component/op...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middl...

I don't know how a movie or TV episode director can have a scene involving chess and not bring just one (1) chess player/adviser on the set to prevent errors.

"We demand that FIDE reconsider its decision to award the Women’s World Chess Championship to Iran.

In its handbook, FIDE explicitly states its guiding moral principles and one of them is that the organization “rejects discriminatory treatment for national, political, racial, social or religious reasons or on account of sex.”

(F.01(1)(2)).

Yet, by awarding the Championship to Iran, it is breaking that pledge to its members and subjecting them to discrimination on all fronts."

At the time of writing the petition is 698 short of 5,000.

Normally, I don't expect Fox to have much chess coverage...>

Unless we do consider every Women's WCC to be a really discriminatory treatment of human beings on account of their very sex!!...

That could be the case fifty years ago (in fact nobody had considered that angle of view back then...) but certainly it's not the case at the era of Judit Polgar or Hou Yifan...

Doubtful you'll get a game score. :)>

Maybe now, with Ailes gone, things might change?