# Another Boycott Hits FIDE **URL:** \ **Category:** All Things Chess\ **Created:** [November 14, 2017, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/another-boycott-hits-fide/22737 "2017-11-14T12:58:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![scottrparker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ab097/32.png) [@scottrparker](https://forum.uschess.org/u/scottrparker)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/another-boycott-hits-fide/22737/21 "2017-11-17T23:54:36Z")
> [@Allen](#): > > Much easier to say than to do. Agreed. The best way is always simple. The simple way is always difficult. The easy path is always mined. - US Marine Corps saying ---
**Author:** ![Allen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bbce88/32.png) [@Allen](https://forum.uschess.org/u/Allen)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2017, 12:43am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/another-boycott-hits-fide/22737/22 "2017-11-18T00:43:27Z")
> [@Antonin](#): > > Why not have all international chess events in Switzerland? Neutral country, beautiful scenery. Surely there’s a billionaire or two somewhere who could easily finance them. The top 1% has gotten steadily richer over the last 30 years. Send all the names of your billionaire friends eager to finance chess events to US Chess c/o the executive director before you send them to FIDE please. ---
**Author:** ![ChessSpawn](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/chessspawn/32/259_2.png) [@ChessSpawn](https://forum.uschess.org/u/ChessSpawn)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/another-boycott-hits-fide/22737/23 "2017-11-18T19:48:19Z")
> [@Allen](#): > > > [@Antonin](#): > > > > Why not have all international chess events in Switzerland? Neutral country, beautiful scenery. Surely there’s a billionaire or two somewhere who could easily finance them. The top 1% has gotten steadily richer over the last 30 years. > > Send all the names of your billionaire friends eager to finance chess events to US Chess c/o the executive director before you send them to FIDE please. US Chess already has its billionaire. Still waiting for the trickle down effect… ---
**Author:** ![sloan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/sloan/32/83_2.png) [@sloan](https://forum.uschess.org/u/sloan)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/another-boycott-hits-fide/22737/24 "2017-11-23T03:03:14Z")
> [@Allen](#): > > Much easier to say than to do. What do you expect from someone who has made a career of saying, but not doing? ---
**Author:** ![billbrock](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/billbrock/32/242_2.png) [@billbrock](https://forum.uschess.org/u/billbrock)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 5:40am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/another-boycott-hits-fide/22737/25 "2017-11-27T05:40:06Z")
> [@scottrparker](#): > > Before Campomanes, and after he was “elected” to head FIDE until its dissolution, FIDE was controlled by the Soviet communists. Ref., for example, Campomanes’s abrupt termination of the 1984-85 Karpov-Kasparov match when it became clear that Soviet darling Karpov was probably going to lose. It wasn’t my idea of an above average organization, but YMMV. > > […] You make a fair point regarding [Campomanes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florencio_Campomanes). Certainly, the Soviets had enormous influence in FIDE pre-1991. But under Rogard, the limit on Candidates from one country was established and the very format of the Candidates was switched after the Keres-Geller-Petrosian draw pact at Curaçao 1962 & Fischer’s rightful protest. It’s sufficient to visit the Wikipedia pages of [Euwe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Euwe#FIDE_President) and [Ólafsson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fri%C3%B0rik_%C3%93lafsson) to see that their decisions were not those of Soviet puppets. The past three decades make much of this history moot, but FIDE truly was a pretty good little organization for the first four decades after WWII. And it explains how US Chess came to be tied into FIDE. Some non-chessplayers might (bizarrely to us) see the awarding of this event to KSA as pro-American & anti-Russian, given the bizarre alliances in the Mideast. As Allen notes, world politics is way above the pay grade of folks at US Chess. Gens una sumus is not. ---
**Author:** ![kevin\_bachler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/kevin_bachler/32/667_2.png) [@kevin\_bachler](https://forum.uschess.org/u/kevin_bachler)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/another-boycott-hits-fide/22737/26 "2017-11-27T23:55:35Z")
> [@Antonin](#): > > Why not have all international chess events in Switzerland? Neutral country, beautiful scenery. Surely there’s a billionaire or two somewhere who could easily finance them. The top 1% has gotten steadily richer over the last 30 years. The rich will tend to get richer. It will happen due to simple math, sans greed, avarice or a number of other social ills often attributed to it. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/system/32/2_2.png) [@system](https://forum.uschess.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/another-boycott-hits-fide/22737/27 "2024-04-22T08:37:35Z")
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