sometimes i think i am an irrational fide hater and then i read youtube chat after 90 seconds of audio problems

@ChessProblem I try my best

@ChessProblem Given that FIDE managed to stick Korchnoi and Karpov in a country under martial law with regular internal armed conflicts (albeit in a 'safer' part), I sense the 'war zone' take about Cyprus is being somewhat over-egged...🤨

@ChessProblem Ig anything can be argued, rlly, so Shreyas may not technically be wrong, but I find it difficult to imagine that any chess fan could plausibly place it higher than third; it can’t be more prestigious than the WC to which it qualifies a player (or two, on occasion), after all.

@ChessProblem FIDE often have the best commentators but their technical side is a joke.