Friday, October 7, 2016

Errata (01): Schwalbe 10/2016

Schwalbe, Oktober 2016
Position 16821, Wladimir Bulanow
Sg4 + Sg6 -> Sg5 + Sg7
Die anderen Studien sind korrekt gedruckt.

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Let's betray the FIDE!

This goes out to all women and all organizers of the world of chess. Let us betray the FIDE, let us tell them a big "fuck you" and hold the world championship without their approval in a country where you are not forced to wear a symbol of submission, of slavery! If FIDE wants to destroy your rights, you don't need the FIDE anymore. Find a venue, find some sponsors, play without their approval. Make your own world championship!
And importantly: Make sure every top woman player participates there. It must be something that has the right to be called a world championship. It would of course be optimal if everyone qualified in the FIDE tourneys would not play there instead!

This is the time to stand up. If you have a dream, the dream of freedom, of equality, of no more sexism, then this is the day for change! Be strong, be free, be independent of the FIDE! Be the Rosa Parks of women rights!

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Petition against Women World Championship in Iran

https://www.change.org/p/stop-women-s-oppression-at-the-world-chess-championship-by-challenging-fide-s-decision

Please support Nazí Paikidze-Barnes to retain our basic human rights! Let us decide the future of chess to be a good one!


Today it is the time to fight for our fundamental freedoms that are threatened to be taken away by the corruption within the FIDE. The basic religious rights of all attendees, of all chessplayers by extension, are at stake. The Iran is a nation of oppression, a nation that draws from religious beliefs that they put over basic human rights, and it would enforce those religious crimes against humanity, against the free choice of religion also on the women that participate here. What if you are a Pagan, what if your religion tells you that your Gods want to see your face and hairs without any veil, they want to show their work, the beauty of the human mind and its expression through the face, for everyone to see? It is impossible to live your religion freely in this case, you are suppressed by a regime that threatens up to death to you if you don't obey their superstitions! This is inacceptable! FIDE not only should not but simply is not permitted to sell out human rights for the relationships its president has with the president of Iran. Today we don't defend women rights. We defend the rights of all humans, we defend freedom of speech and freedom of religion themselves. If we lose this battle, we are no longer citizens of the FIDE, but slaves! This is why I sign this petition, and this is why everyone should sign! More is at stake here than just games, more is at stakes than only one tourney, it is the entire future of how the FIDE handles human rights!