I do love Nigel Short

Fide elections take place in September, when chess federations from 165 countries will vote. Karpov is enlisting support from other federations fed up with Ilyumzhinov's rule. The US, France, Germany, Switzerland, the English Chess Federation, and 16 others are so far behind him. In an email last week Short called Ilyumzhinov an "alien-abducted fantasist dictator" who "never has the slightest qualms about lying through his teeth, especially not now, when he is fighting for his political life".

The full article http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/may/24/anatoly-karpov-kremlin-world-chess

Pretty good article, other than continuosly not capitalizing all the letters in FIDE. It's an acronym - FIDE, not Fide. Kinda like how Elo is not an acronym, so it's not ELO.

In a weird way, I would be kind of proud to have that particular epithet attached to my name.

It would be hard to do that in a normal way..

Then again, that makes the weird way kinda normal for this kind of thing.

Which is kinda weird.

Pseudo Intellectualism +1

I mean, if you get to be called an alien-abducted fantasist dictator then you've had an interesting life so far.

wots   ET   short for?   cos he   has  short  legs    ha ha ha