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Making a drama out of a crisis

Making a drama out of a crisis

By mishanp on August 4, 2010

Worries over the state of preparations for the World Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk have recently made the headlines, but surely the strangest report appeared on the local Ugra Inform website. Their decision to transcribe the conversation during FIDE Vice President Israel Gelfer’s inspection quite literally made a drama out of a crisis.

Posted in Russian | Tagged Bondarev, FIDE, Gelfer, Gerber, Ilyumzhinov, Karpov, Khanty-Mansiysk, Olympiad | 8 Responses

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