I can´t be more disagree with you! There is nothing normal with chess players change federations like pants! You can change it for absolute normal reason like when you move to other country to live there, married person from one country etc.
But change only for money, having a change to play in this or that, that is characters most sports want to get rid of. For example my respect for Aronian and Rapport are gone because of it!
Yes, there are more countries that USA and my opinion, and I know for sure a lot of people, is against this. Look at it, all sports federation are trying to made rules to stop this. In chess you even not need to be a citizen!
And if you feel it normal that in the USA team are never spoken English, well then I rest my case!
About the Bermuda party, this was finally normal, and most players have had it normal all the time. It is the short of sports ambitious characters that have been in wild party in the middle of the tournament (in which other sport would that happens!) and that have through bad image of the sport.
So normally man talk as little as possible about it before, now it sems to be fine.
Nice article but doesn't really seem to be that relevant to the "Goes For GM" theme. I was hoping to it would contain something like what you learned by analysing the performances of people who got GM norms at the Olympiad.
Best Olympiad article I've read so far!
Thanks!
Nice write up of your experience at the event. Thanks
Great writeup Kostya, looks like you enjoyed Budapest!
Thanks Kostya for a great article on your experience there - one of the more interesting I have seen actually!
Thank you!
The U.S. Team doesn’t have many fans
I can´t be more disagree with you! There is nothing normal with chess players change federations like pants! You can change it for absolute normal reason like when you move to other country to live there, married person from one country etc.
But change only for money, having a change to play in this or that, that is characters most sports want to get rid of. For example my respect for Aronian and Rapport are gone because of it!
Yes, there are more countries that USA and my opinion, and I know for sure a lot of people, is against this. Look at it, all sports federation are trying to made rules to stop this. In chess you even not need to be a citizen!
And if you feel it normal that in the USA team are never spoken English, well then I rest my case!
About the Bermuda party, this was finally normal, and most players have had it normal all the time. It is the short of sports ambitious characters that have been in wild party in the middle of the tournament (in which other sport would that happens!) and that have through bad image of the sport.
So normally man talk as little as possible about it before, now it sems to be fine.
Nice article but doesn't really seem to be that relevant to the "Goes For GM" theme. I was hoping to it would contain something like what you learned by analysing the performances of people who got GM norms at the Olympiad.