# FIDE's Big Problems Noted Today by Bloomberg **URL:** \ **Category:** All Things Chess\ **Created:** [November 28, 2016, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/fides-big-problems-noted-today-by-bloomberg/22048 "2016-11-28T12:58:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**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 28, 2016, 12:58pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/fides-big-problems-noted-today-by-bloomberg/22048/1 "2016-11-28T12:58:21Z")
The reality is that business knows how connected FIDE and AGON are to corrupt Russians in Putin’s circle. “It didn’t help. The New York tournament, which hoped to attract luxury retailers and financial firms as sponsors, wound up with an odd quartet: a Russian fertilizer company, a Moscow-based asset-management firm, a Norwegian bottled-water company that sponsors Carlsen, and S.T. Dupont, whose stylish pens are being used by the two players to make notes. “People are afraid,” Makropoulos said.” As well they should be. As Karpov is quoted as saying, “Any d\_\_\_head could do a better job.” [bloomberg.com/features/2016 … mpionship/](https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-world-chess-championship/) And the latest from yesterday’s NYTimes: [nytimes.com/2016/11/27/nyreg … .html?\_r=0](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/27/nyregion/world-chess-championship-magnus-carlsen-sergey-karjakin.html?_r=0) Love the lead photo showing the Agon facade with the bare ceiling and sprinkler system. Kudos though to Agon for controlling the image output from the venue to this point. ---
**Author:** ![relyea](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/relyea/32/190_2.png) [@relyea](https://forum.uschess.org/u/relyea)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2016, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/fides-big-problems-noted-today-by-bloomberg/22048/2 "2016-11-28T15:00:22Z")
> [@ChessSpawn](#): > > “It didn’t help. The New York tournament, which hoped to attract luxury retailers and financial firms as sponsors, wound up with an odd quartet: a Russian fertilizer company, a Moscow-based asset-management firm, a Norwegian bottled-water company that sponsors Carlsen, and S.T. Dupont, whose stylish pens are being used by the two players to make notes. “People are afraid,” Makropoulos said.” As well they should be. As Karpov is quoted as saying, “Any d\_\_\_head could do a better job.” > [bloomberg.com/features/2016 … mpionship/](https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-world-chess-championship/) I assume the pens are really used to keep score? Alex Relyea ---
**Author:** ![nocab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e0b2c6/32.png) [@nocab](https://forum.uschess.org/u/nocab)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2016, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/fides-big-problems-noted-today-by-bloomberg/22048/3 "2016-11-30T17:42:47Z")
The most scathing indictment of Chess I’ve read recently. In the spirit of Castalia, Chess is not played in a vacuum. What We The People think matters, as I attempted to write on my blog, and for which some ridiculed and heaped scorn. Because of Kirsan the ET Chess has become some kind of sick joke. Leaders MATTER! If people laugh at our leader, they laugh at us. ---
**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/fides-big-problems-noted-today-by-bloomberg/22048/4 "2024-04-22T08:37:22Z")