Does anyone have the moves for the Kirsan-Gadaffit match.  It appears to be over in roughly 10 moves, and I can only assume that Kirsan won.  Gadaffi pulls a fast one by violating the touch-move rule at 50 seconds in...

The only moves I can make out are an attempt by Gadaffi at 1.f3 (though it appears they had to start over.. maybe because he was black)  and what appears to be a knight retreat from d5 to b6. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8571992/Gaddafi-plays-chess-as-Libya-awaits-his-next-move.html

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I agree, I think this is auwful coverage for chess and we should be embarressed and humiliated that the FIDE president will go as far as to meet, greet and play a friendly game of chess againt a war criminal, responsible for the deaths of so many.

The whole thing is disgusting.  What was FIDE doing there, playing chess with a demonic dictator  ?  Was FIDE looking for publicity ?  If it was, it was entirely the wrong kind of publicity for the Noble Game...playing against an entirely discredited Head of State.  

For some reason or another, Kirsan's face was wreathed in smiles as he made his moves.  FIDE has long laboured under the alleged accusation of being a corrupt organisation and the bottom line here is, that it did itself no favours, with regard to dispelling that accusation.

Even my non-chess playing friends have asked me what in God's name is going on in the highest echelons of chess.  I'm afraid I have no answer to that, other than to condemn the whole exercise outright.

From one article I read he was trying to send a political message. However, I think this would be best left to politicians... oh wait, I guess he was the perfect guy then.

When is he going to be ...checkmated?...

How the hell do you know that Gaddafi is a "demonic dictator". Don't tell me you believe all that crap they put on the western media. You really think you're an expert on world affairs because you watch CNN or other western media? Haaahahahahaha.

Please educate yourself a little on how world affairs really are by watching the following instead of vacantly taking everything CNN says as gospel:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlFL0iGq-y4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A5jfK2U1Lg

The issue is not black and white. Notice how in the media they are trying to make Syria out to be some new demonic nation... this could be as a result of all manners of trade disputes or economic threats or issues, I hope you don't actually believe all of that. One man's protestors are another man's unruly mob or militia group attempting to enter government buildings and massacre government officials and refused to stop. People are often killed in America when they try and run from the police and it never makes the news. This is why it's said that the people that control the media control the world.

Nonetheless, I don't think it was a good idea for a FIDE president to be making political statements, chess shouldn't involve itself in politics.

Excellent post!

May be he asked Money for Anand - Gelfand WC 

If it never makes the news then how on earth did you, living in Ireland, find out about it?  

There is this new gadget called, 'the internet'

He thinks whatever Mr. Gadaffi tells him to think.

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With a name like that, I'm not surprised at all your gobbledegook.

1  I actually watch Al Jazeera a lot.

2 I suppose that you think that Gadaffi knew nothing at all about the Lockerbie bombing ?

3 I suppose you think that all those years that Gadaffi supplied the IRA with semtex and weaponry to use at will against Northern Irishmen, women and children...that wasn't demonic ?

4  I suppose you think that what he is doing to his own people is...angelic ?

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Wow. Wow. To defend Gaddafi. Yes Gaddafi has supporters in Lybia. But that doesn't change the fact that he is a dictator complicit in terrorism, responsible for murder and ordering rape.

On the other hand US news, particually fox news, is notoriously biased. This is unlike uk TV, where all news must be neutral.

The ever controversial Muammar, is revered for overthrowing a U.S. pawn in the sixties, and bringing impressive reforms and "modernization" to Libya. He also is accused of funding bombings of civilians, and not sharing equally the wealth of Libyan resources with the people. He has been admired the world over, and hated just the same.

But, there is little doubt that western hegemony, and not "humanitarian reasons", is the cause of the present western invasion of Libya...

What do you think, Atos?

I almost choked on my drink reading this!

Who decides what is neutral?

Yes, sorry I meant the BBC. But on the other had ITV, and  channel 4 are far more fair in their coverage then the blatantly right-wing fox news.