Perlen vom Bodensee

Doch ein Heimspiel für Matthias Blübaum? Wadim Rosenstein hat der FIDE angeboten, das Kandidatenturnier 2026 kurzfristig in Deutschland zu organisieren. perlenvombodensee.de/2026/03/19/wad…

@PHChess Promoting RCF things comes with signing a ten-year contract with the RCF, I guess?!

To Esipenko: Why do you allow your name to be used by the Chess Federation of Russia 🇷🇺 to promote a war movie, glorifying the attack on Mariupol, costing thousand of innocent Ukrainians🇺🇦 lives. Do you condemn the Russian🇷🇺 attack on Mariupol🇺🇦?

Only 10 days left until the #GreatBluebaumSweep starts🧹

Kandidatenturnier in Deutschland? Das wäre nice.

@SebSwo Alternativ kannst du die Würdigung zum 80. immer wieder hervorkramen. Da ist Stoff für diese und viele weitere Quizfragen drin. perlenvombodensee.de/2023/08/06/80-…

@Bodenseeperlen Man muss halt ein bestimmtes (aktuelles) Interview gesehen haben...dann kommt man auf solche Fragen.

Neues Schachquiz ist online - unter anderem mit dieser Frage:

Magnus Carlsen REVEALS he wanted to play the Candidates: “I’d actually planned to make a late bid to play the Candidates, but when I saw that Bluebaum, whom I’ve never beaten in our multiple classical games, had qualified, I rethought; I dreaded an unprecedented triumph by him.”

🚨 HT EXCLUSIVE Humpy likely to pull out of Candidates in Cyprus over Iran war safety concerns  "It just doesn't make any sense. It’s dangerous to travel anywhere near West Asia at this point when there’s so much tension and uncertainty." +

Donnerstag schon was vor? perlenvombodensee.de/2026/03/15/sim…

FIDE will need to find a new bank (again) due to its links with Russia. As I heard this week from different sources: •⁠ ⁠Employees have just received advance payments of several salaries, as FIDE is preparing for the likely scenario of having its accounts suspended. •⁠ ⁠Some players have reported not having received payments for prize money earned in recent events that are already due, a sign that FIDE’s transactions are already limited or under scrutiny. These are strong indications that the Spanish @caixabank, the only bank that accepted them as a customer in 2019 after Ilyumzhinov was included in the U.S. sanctions list, might have reconsidered this decision. And there are two clear reasons for that: Since FIDE has the majority of its staff in Russia (and the number of Russian employees has only increased since the start of the war), they have been using four different Russian banks to pay their salaries (as indicated in their last financial report, dated from 2024). One of them is Gazprombank, an entity subject to full blocking sanctions, and FIDE working with them is a clear breach of these sanctions. Besides, this is a very sensitive topic for CaixaBank right now, as they have recently received a €30 million fine from SEPBLAC (Spain’s financial intelligence unit and the main authority monitoring money laundering and sanctions compliance) for failing to apply proper due diligence to high-risk, non-resident clients and failing to file timely Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs). CaixaBank has also admitted to having an exposure of over €185 million from Russian citizens and Russian-related entities. So now, not only might the FIDE President be included in the EU sanctions list as soon as this April, but the links between this institution and Russian banks on the sanctions list turn FIDE into a problematic customer. No bank wants that liability. As we all know, it is not the first time that FIDE has faced such a situation. After its previous president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, was placed on the U.S. sanctions list in 2015, the Swiss bank UBS closed FIDE’s accounts, as banks apply strict compliance rules to institutions linked to sanctioned individuals. Even though Ilyumzhinov withdrew from all financial and legal operations of FIDE shortly after the sanctions were imposed, it proved extremely difficult for FIDE to find a new bank willing to accept them. FIDE was effectively a pariah in the banking system for a couple of years, causing an operational nightmare. CaixaBank was ultimately the only institution prepared to take that risk back then. But it seems they will not turn a blind eye anymore.

@ninkibah @peterdoggers Live transmission without eboards being available is a nice feature for organizers. fide.com/idchess-techno…

@peterdoggers An Irish company did this as side project maybe 7 years ago, and I also remember a similar product being shown at the Chennai olympiad. I do like the idea of a board photo to FEN app. I'd use that a lot when playing friendly games at the club.

Exactly the idea I had in 2011 when I saw an article saying Google can use your phone camera to solve sudoku’s. Then in Jerusalem 2015 there was a pilot project with a phone filming games from above for live transmission which I never heard back from. Good luck to this project!

GM Lothar Schmidt's chess collection is going up for auction. The article mentions that he made his money from publishing the Karl May books, which were highly popular cowboy stories written in German! Yeehaw! perlenvombodensee.de/2026/03/09/lot…

Die FIDE hält am Kandidatenturnier auf Zypern fest, DSB-Vizepräsidenten distanzieren sich von einer Mail ihrer Präsidentin, ÖSB-Chef Michael Stöttinger erklärt, warum er die Nähe der FIDE-Führungsriege sucht und vieles mehr. Jetzt bei den Perlen.

"Er hat gelogen" - Veselin Topalov über Toiletgate: perlenvombodensee.de/2024/08/27/er-…

FIDE hält am Kandidatenturnier auf Zypern fest: perlenvombodensee.de/forum/topic/fi…

Auf der Website ist ein neues Quiz online. Eine Quizfrage bekommt Ihr separat hier :-)

@orangeing Ist das so? Yasser Seirawan hat die Anekdote neulich erzählt, aber ohne das Turnier zu nennen, bei dem es passiert ist.

@Bodenseeperlen C. 1959 beim Kandidarenturnier.

Schachspieler, keine ganz einfachen Patienten.

Not sure what Vincent has to say about German #1 😀

@merenzon In 1/3, you're quite close to how it is.

3/3 she won't go until she has her ECU seat, and everyone else wants her gone yesterday.

Even though I live in Germany, I never followed German level chess politics (but yes, there is politics, and its heating up) worldchess.com/news/german-ch… I still don‘t understand the main point of contention. Can anyone explain?