15-05-2014, 10:29 AM
Well we have FIDE's response,
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Rather than try to alleviate the Norwegian financial difficulties it seems to make it worse by trying to prevent them levying the E100 administration fee.
It looks like all posturing to me and I fully expect the Olympiad to go ahead as planned but everyone is playing it pretty hard at present.
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Rather than try to alleviate the Norwegian financial difficulties it seems to make it worse by trying to prevent them levying the E100 administration fee.
It looks like all posturing to me and I fully expect the Olympiad to go ahead as planned but everyone is playing it pretty hard at present.