11-02-2013, 10:52 PM
As the inadvertent, completely innocent even, initial mentioner of the dreaded blogger whose name can apparently no longer be mentioned in polite company (in a separate thread about the FIDE presidential board's new licensing "step"), I must say I've been quite astonished at the outcome!
All the dreaded "unmentionable" did was draw the letter of objection by ten FIDE members (and apparently growing) to the FIDE presidential board's step on licensing players for rating purposes earlier to the wider chess world than anyone else did ... a huge public service for chess.
Moreover I only picked it up from the daily list of chess media links at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.chesscafe.com">http://www.chesscafe.com</a><!-- m --> (which confirms Geoff Chandler's excellent point about circularity on the web as well as his other point that the "unmentionable's" blog is a darn sight fuller of more pertinent, quickly delivered information of real interest on world chess than a lot of other stuff "out there".
I am not an expert on the details of the "unmentionable's" purported blog transgressions ... I don't even read the blog very often ... but I'm beginning to wonder whether I made the right choice in visiting the recent Pablo Picasso exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery, not to mention the recent (and outstanding) Scottish artist John Bellany's towering 70th birthday retrospective platformed by the same institution (both to rave reviews in the media, I might add, despite their, well shall we say rather interesting approaches to art and their respective muses).
Oh dear! I can't help thinking that (as Bellany felt his entire life, worked through and expressed in much of his art) that we Scots rather all too often suffer from an overdose of the worst John Knox-ism.
All the dreaded "unmentionable" did was draw the letter of objection by ten FIDE members (and apparently growing) to the FIDE presidential board's step on licensing players for rating purposes earlier to the wider chess world than anyone else did ... a huge public service for chess.
Moreover I only picked it up from the daily list of chess media links at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.chesscafe.com">http://www.chesscafe.com</a><!-- m --> (which confirms Geoff Chandler's excellent point about circularity on the web as well as his other point that the "unmentionable's" blog is a darn sight fuller of more pertinent, quickly delivered information of real interest on world chess than a lot of other stuff "out there".
I am not an expert on the details of the "unmentionable's" purported blog transgressions ... I don't even read the blog very often ... but I'm beginning to wonder whether I made the right choice in visiting the recent Pablo Picasso exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery, not to mention the recent (and outstanding) Scottish artist John Bellany's towering 70th birthday retrospective platformed by the same institution (both to rave reviews in the media, I might add, despite their, well shall we say rather interesting approaches to art and their respective muses).
Oh dear! I can't help thinking that (as Bellany felt his entire life, worked through and expressed in much of his art) that we Scots rather all too often suffer from an overdose of the worst John Knox-ism.