Commentary by Sergei Shipov
[ColonelCassad] The news has swept the world chess federation.
Grandmaster Sergei Shipov writes:
Insanity in the name of the notorious "tolerance" is growing. And FIDE does not stand aside.
I remember how Dubov, at the World Cup in Sochi, joked on the air about the presence of porn films on his computer - and was immediately fired.
Now Smirin in Astana quite good-naturedly noted some differences in conditions for women and men - with the same result.
The trend is clear: FIDE officials actively use all the plagues of the Western world in chess. Sports are actively interfering with big politics, they are looking for sexism and other "isms" where they do not exist.
It looks like they can't! In the big world they won't understand, sir.
PS It is strange that I, who never climbed into my pocket for a word, did not find such "crimes" in official comments. Apparently they didn't search well.
PPS It became known who dispersed the current scandal.
Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova acted as a "slaughterer".
And then more serious figures came up: Zsuzsa Polgar (referring to FIDE on her Twitter) and Hikaru Nakamura (on her YouTube channel), who ensured a massive response.
Rate the dialogue:
Ilya Smirin (commentator): I've always wondered why women can play with men, but men can't play in the women's tournament (smiles)
Fiona Stiyl-Anthony (commentator): You have to ask someone other than me
Smirin: I don't ask. Let's just say it's a rhetorical question
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Stiyl-Anthony: Are you saying that chess is not for women?
Smirin: I did not say this openly. Sorry. It was a private conversation
https://t.me/Crestbook - Zinc
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
Smirin, of course, according to Orwell, committed a thought crime and voiced it. For which he suffered.
Tokhirjonova is a former chess player from Uzbekistan who now plays for the United States. Well, as you can see, very quickly integrated into the local mainstream.
It is interesting that Maria Manakova, who emigrated from Russia to Serbia, writes about this,
Maria Manakova is another chess player and a Russian émigré residing in Serbia
"How disgusting all this is, all these tolerances of yours, aggressive feminists, kissing the feet of representatives of other races and licking refugees from the Middle East. It is already forbidden for a person to express his opinion, either in Sovka or in "civilized" countries. "We're walking like a minefield.
Soon the pendulum will go in the opposite direction. And it won't seem enough. Look, Italy is an example of this."
Clever and one of the most educated people in the chess world Ilya Smirin, in his usual manner, joked live about women's chess. About some kind of chess player, I didn’t even really understand which one, her name will be forgotten the very next day. Like, why does she need the title of a male grandmaster when she already has the title of a female one.
And, they say, why women can play in men's tournaments, but women can't. Everything.
They always talked and joked about it, in the same expressions, everyone understood the joke of humor, and nothing.
Now the chess player complained, got indignant, offended right to the depths of her soul.
As a result, a terrible scandal erupted, and Ilya was forced to fucking apologize. FIDE published some sort of ruling about this and he was kicked out of the commentators for the Women's Grand Prix.
Vile times, oh, vile."
She can hardly be reproached with great sympathy for Russia or "traditional values", but even she got through. But it seems that this is only the beginning. Such international structures dependent on Western money and Western pressure are forced to railway station prostitutes adapt to the requirements of the client who dances them.
Talk about the fact that "chess is out of politics" now betrays only the infantilism of those who say it. Like any great sport in the conditions of the Cold War, it is primarily politics, and therefore already sports and everything else. And grandmasters are now being reminded of this point-blank, telling who to play, who not to play, what can be said and what cannot be said. However, given the overwhelming conformity of the grandmaster environment, one can be sure that the majority will silently eat it. Not for the first time.