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Terror and anti-terrorLast Thursday the International Tournament MTel-Masters 2006 started in Sofia; there I met FIDE Vice President, the leader of the national chess team of Georgia grandmaster Zurab Azmaiparashvili.We have been acquainted for many years and I asked him how his eyesight was after the eye injury inflicted by the security men during the World Chess Olympiad in Calvia. I also enquired if he won the suit against them. ?The injured eye sees, though not as good as it used to, Zurab said. During the trial it turned out that those men were not common security guards but professionals in anti-terroristic operations. My lawyer explained to me that it was virtually impossible to win a suit against the ?anti-terrorists?. It is such a shame that there was no way to punish those "professionals" who cruelly beat the Vice President of FIDE up during the closing ceremony of the Olympiad in Calvia in the sight of the full audience! ?A while ago during the Europe Championship in Sweden the President of the Spanish Chess Federation Javier Ochoa approached me to tender apologies, Zurab went on. ?He tried to convince me that he was unable to do anything then in Calvia. ?I told him that I will never forgive him that he refused to help that night when my wife asked him to arrange a meeting with me in the Spanish jail. ?Instead he left her alone crying with black despair in the middle of the night...? What was the essence of the ?terroristic operation? undertaken by Azmaiparashvili in Calvia? It turned out that the organizers forbade Zurab?s great country-woman, the five times World Champion Nona Gaprindashvili to hand her Cup specially brought by her to Calvia. FIDE Vice President tried to correct the organizers? mistake, but was cruelly beaten up by the ?anti-terrorists?, who handcuffed him and sent to jail to further beat him there. - The President of the Turkish Chess Federation Ali Nihat Yazici found the misconduct of the President of the Spanish Chess Federation Javier Ochoa, who justified the actions of the Spanish ?anti-terrorists?, outrageous. He came up with a proposal to call Javier Ochoa persona non grata in the European Chess Union. The interesting fact is that now Mr. Yazici calls Ochoa an ?outstanding organizer who deeply understands the existing range of problems? and proposes Ochoa for leadership in the ECU. ?The change in the political situation resulted in the change of Mr. Yazici?s opinion of Ochoa.? With a sad smile the Vice President of FIDE finished his story. Do you expect me to make some comments? I have no. Author?s opinion does not necessarily concur with editorial opinion. |
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