For the forgotten victims of the 11 September putsch and it's aftermath

Stay strong and fight on! The truth must be revealed!
45 years later, the perpetrators still can be brought to justice!

Ohrid 2018 photos

Branislav Djurasević has uploaded the photos of the WCCC in Ohrid 2018, and shared the link in the MatPlus forum.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D6KBmJvlMTxHHrQ65Cew4kmYojJlm7wi

The undying Nissl/Davidson hoax

I have received a mail by a chess friend alleging once more that the famous Nissl rundlauf was anticipated by Davidson. As Michael McDowell with confirmation of Alain Godbout has reported many years ago, the position (solution see link) is a Nissl original, not anticipated by Davidson in 1899.

Dear Caissa, let's lay this rumor to rest finally!

Theodor Nissl

Akademische Monatshefte für Schach 1910

White to move and mate in 6 moves

My statement about Kirsan comes at earliest in October

As everyone knows, I was not a friend of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. Now I have read he lost his presidency of the FIDE last month. I will write a statement once the new FIDE president is in office after the October election (currently Makropoulos is acting president).

I am just glad to lay this to rest after so many years!

Fact Check I: (WRONG) Was a 7yo Israeli girl denied access to a World Chess Championship in Tunisia?

The Times of Israel has published an article on 21 July claiming a 7yo Israeli girl was not allowed to participate in the rapid WCh in Tunisia.
Thanks to an informant who wants to remain anonymous it was found out that this information was plain wrong. The tournament there is a privately organized tournament. There was not a FIDE sanctioned event, let alone a World Chess Championship.

We can at the time not confirm if or if not a 7yo Israeli girl was denied entry to that private event, but even if so we would be unable to know the reasons for that (there could be safety reasons, worries for her, not wanting such a young girl to play far away from home, not necessarily an anti-Israeli motivation). However, I believe that a private organizer has the right to choose whom he wants to let participate, meaning even in the event that she was denied participation there would in my opinion be no obvious violation of FIDE guidelines.

So the Times of Israel article is WRONG!
https://www.timesofisrael.com/7-year-old-chess-champ-cant-compete-in-tunisia-tourney-because-shes-israeli/

Many thanks to the informant for the investigation!


Update, 6 August 2018: I was sent the following article:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/tunisia-backtracks-allows-israeli-child-to-compete-in-chess-tourney-1.6342006
The child now is allowed to participate. Again, this is no official FIDE event and we don't know the reasoning of the organizers to not let her play at first or why that decision was changed.

[GERMAN] Hornecker-Studie bei Huschenbeth

Wie mir gestern Abend Martin Minski mitgeteilt hat, hat Niclas Huschenbeth eine sehr schöne Kleinigkeit von uns in einem seiner Youtube-Videos mit dem Titel "Unglaubliche Studien #12" besprochen. Der Hamburger Großmeister Huschenbeth war zunächst - neben Videos für einen großen Online-Schachservice - für seine Serie "Unglaubliche Züge" bekannt, in der er genialste Züge aus echten Schachpartien präsentiert. Nachdem Martin Minski einen jener Züge gesehen hatte, entstand eine Gemeinschaftsstudie der beiden daraus, die zur Grundlage für Huschenbeths Studien-Anthologievideoserie wurde.

Weitere Links:
Unglaubliche Züge (Playlist)
Unglaubliche Studien (Playlist)
Remarkeble Games and Moments (Playlist, englisch)

The mysterious Ephraim Halpern murder (10,000 Deutsche Mark offered as of 1984)

Apologies for something different, but this bothers me since I first learned about it in December 2017.

In September 1983, the Israeli citizen Ephraim Halpern was murdered in Hamburg. The murder weapon was a Wehrmacht gun P38 with the serial number "80 10 e". The gun was found together with two magazines in a trash bin. Police in Hamburg asks who is in possession of a Wehrmacht pistol P38 with a nearby serial number.
As of  December 2017, the Ludwigsburg Central for solving National Socialist crimes has had no lists of Wehrmacht gun serial numbers.

Ephraim Halpern supposedly was involved with secret services and gun deals, but it is unclear if this is true. What is known is that he worked for the SGH Spezial Gerätebau in Hamburg, a daughter of the Tadiran Isräl Electronics Ltd., Tel Aviv. The company is specialized in electronics and weapons, having fulfilled contacts for the (West) German Army "Bundeswehr". Prior to leading this business, Halpern was a Major of the Israeli Air Force.
Halpern likely worked for the MOSSAD. He might have been killed as a retribution for the killing of Saki El Selou. A few weeks prior to his murder he also met with arms dealers in Vienna, according to a 2017 book "The Secret War Against The Jews" by John Loftus and Mark Aarons.

The possibility exists that this is one of the last nazi crimes in Germany, so if you are able to provide any information, please contact the police in Hamburg. If this is not a nazi crime, it might be related to international terrorism.

Address: Caffamacherreihe 4, 20355 Hamburg, Germany

Phone: +49 (0)40 428670777

Do not contact me (this might put my life into danger) nor post in the comments but directly contact the police. You likely can also contact your local police and they will forward the information to Hamburg. If it is true that Halpern is a former MOSSAD agent, you might also want to contact the police in Israel.

Address: Public Complaints Unit, 91 Herzl Street, The Government Complex Building, Ramla 7243003, Israel

Email: tlunot@police.gov.il

(Some of the information here is taken by the internet and marked as speculative as far as the sources might not be reliable. Other information is taken from the German TV show "Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst" of 11 May 1984. As this might be a nazi crime, I have a personal ethical interest that the perpetrators are caught.)

EDIT, 15 July 2019:
Maybe it is helpful to link to sources:
SGH Spezial Gerätebau, Germany
"The Secret War against the Jews", allegation of meeting with arms dealers

Other links that were not used back then as sources:
Probably a German conspiracy theory publication, with newspaper clipping on the last page
(Important info from there: "Kommando 17. September", a Palestinean terror organisation, says they killed Halpern, he was 37 years old, he supposedly - according to the terrorists - was a former Israeli Air Force officer and was killed in front of his apartment - source: dpa - no mention of where they'd have gotten the gun from, so that might be a false confession)

I don't remember what other sources I did or didn't use. Should have written them down back then. But most info not found there or in "Aktenzeichen XY" is to be doubted.