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kmike84 on Sept 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sinquefield Cup: One of the most amazing feats in ...

An article was unexpectingly political: it is about a tournament with all players from top-10 except for those who are Russians, an article starts with bashing Russians and ends with bashing Russians? It even manages to mention Putin several times. Is it what competitive chess about?

_0nac on Sept 19, 2014 [–]

I don't see any bashing on "Russians". I do see bashing on FIDE and Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, who is fairly widely acknowledged to be Putin's lapdog.

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