06-10-2013, 12:10 AM
"can't face the embarrassment of showing off his smelly feet perhaps?"
Lol
, but I don't know how I would react to a demand for a search. I think if there were grounds for widespread suspicion I would accede to it, but if it was a sudden whim on the part of an opponent or the arbiter I probably wouldn't. If I got a lot of abuse first, I might have reacted the same way as Ivanov =o
I think what people may be forgetting is that the right to search Ivanov only exists in their own mind. In reality chess is a game, and an enforced search is, objectively, a much more serious issue than that. The new FIDE proposals appear to give arbiters greater powers than the police, and not just over competitors. It's a tense and emotional situation, but I fear the chess world might be about to lose its collective marbles, and introduce cures that are worse than the disease - but hopefully sanity will prevail.
Lol
, but I don't know how I would react to a demand for a search. I think if there were grounds for widespread suspicion I would accede to it, but if it was a sudden whim on the part of an opponent or the arbiter I probably wouldn't. If I got a lot of abuse first, I might have reacted the same way as Ivanov =oI think what people may be forgetting is that the right to search Ivanov only exists in their own mind. In reality chess is a game, and an enforced search is, objectively, a much more serious issue than that. The new FIDE proposals appear to give arbiters greater powers than the police, and not just over competitors. It's a tense and emotional situation, but I fear the chess world might be about to lose its collective marbles, and introduce cures that are worse than the disease - but hopefully sanity will prevail.