Newsgroup: it.hobby.scacchi
Titolo: ombre sull'organizzazione delle prossime olimpiadi

Nell'ultimo numero di Chess Today (CT-243 (3584) del 31.08.2010) si
parla ancora dell'organizzazione delle prossime olimpiadi: la risposta
della FIDE alle lamentele del giocatore dello stato delle Bermuda è
veramente incredibile ... votare contro la ri-elezione di Kirsan
Ilyumzhinov non è solo una scelta di campo ma un dovere civico ...
2010 Chess Olympiad by GM Alex Baburin
A few days ago I decided not to play in the forthcoming chess Olympiad
in Khanty-Mansijsk. That will be only the
second Olympiad I have missed since 1994. One of the reasons for my
decision was the fact this Olympiad
seems to be badly organised. Recently FIDE President Kirsan
Ilyumzhinov, who backed the bid from Khanty-
Mansijsk a few years ago, admitted that only one of the three promised
hotels (which were to be built for this
event) existed, and even that one was not ready. Student accommodation
for chess teams is being mentioned.
That is not the only problem – the departure time of the charter
flight from Munich (where the Irish team intends to travel from) has
been changed at least twice, making it impossible to buy tickets to
Munich.
Some teams already bought their tickets, so they had to change them,
which is never cheap.
Single rooms for captains were offered and then withdrawn. Those
wishing to have a single room were asked to pay 1120 euro per room –
and to pay in advance!
Recently our reader Nick Faulks, who plays for Bermuda, sent us the
following e-mail exchange:
To: 
ugra-...@ugra-chess.ru
Cc: Mr. Israel Gelfer, FIDE Secretariat
Sent: Thu, 26 Aug 2010
Subject: Re: Bermuda team - accommodation
"Dear Mr. Bondarev,
I have received no reply to my  email of 20th August, attached. I
repeat that my federation will not authorise the
release of funds for accommodation about which you cannot provide any
details, and know that other federations feel the same way.
Bermuda has taken part in Olympiads since 1976, and has never before
been forced to pay in advance for
undescribed services. In the case of a room for the team captain, this
has not even been an issue, since you are the first organisers, and I
hope the last, who are failing to provide this as a matter of
courtesy.
It is extremely disappointing that FIDE allows you to treat your
guests in this way. But for the fact that several team members have
already bought nonrefundable tickets I would be withdrawing our entry.
Yours sincerely, Nick Faulks"
The reply he got from Israel Gelfer, member of the FIDE Presidential
Board, tasked with making sure that the Olympiad organisers perform to
their bid, was simply astonishing:
From: Mr. Israel Gelfer [mailto:
gel...@fide.com
]
To: Nick Faulks; 
ugra-...@ugrachess.ru
Cc: Nigel Freeman, FIDE Secretariat
Sent: Thu, 26 Aug 2010
Subject: Re: Bermuda team - accommodation
"Dear Mr. Faulks
Without going into the details of invoice you got let me just respond
to your style of your mail:
I find your last message to the organizers and to Fide as disgraceful
and unbearable and if I were the organizer I would simply disregard
any mail from you from now on.
Personally, I would not care if people like you would withdraw from
the olympiad. Israel Gelfer"
I guess this how a top FIDE manager sees FIDE's slogan Gens Una Sumus
(we are one family). Perhaps representatives of small chess national
federations, which usually back Kirsan and his team in FIDE elections,
should think again!


quoto
Paolo


Se ne trovavano qualcun altro che in fatto di pubbliche relazioni sia
come Gelfer, mi sa che non c'è neanche bisogno di creare una
federazione alternativa, la FIDE si distruggerà da sola.
Ciao
P.L.