Saturday, August 27, 2005

Stupified - French Response to FIDE

On 25 August, the Fédération Française des Échecs (FFE) released a communique in which they stated that they were stupified by a FIDE statement relating to Jean-Paul Touze.

In a telling portion of the communique, FFE called into question the legality of FIDE's actions particularly since JP Touze was basically sent to the gallows without being given the right of reply.

Il est en outre inacceptable, du point de vue de la stricte légalité, que la voix de l'accusé n'ait pu être entendue, et encore plus inacceptable que ce dernier n'ait même pas été prévenu au préalable de sa position d'accusé !

Obviously, the controversy over the World Youth's is not over.

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