In the post below, entitled Moves I could not play 44, I have had several emails about this already, asking me if I could name the criminals in the English chess scene referred to in the footnotes.
Please allow me to explain further: I cannot do that and I will not post anything related to their cases on my site. I also cannot say who else is involved in these discussions and I am not willing to name victims either. Let’s just leave it as: much of it is far worse than you could possibly imagine and some of it has destroyed lives I am sorry to say. The only positive thing I can think of to say here is that none of our titled players have been brutally murdered, unlike our neighbours across the channel and this champion in particular French Chess Champion sadly no longer with us, and so it’s not as gruesome as that: for the most part it is only limited to rape, suicide involving teenage chess protégées, molesting children whilst a chess coach amongst the elite, authors arrested and found guilty of attempted murder amongst other crimes just as sickening, if not more so, the sale of date rape-drugs at numerous tournaments, prositution with indivuduals of both genders as well as trans-gender in Amsterdam, assault, debt-collecting coupled with violence, fraud, and improper and indecent acts by men of the clergy, but not too much more than that. Nor is there mention of what English GMs have witnessed at tournaments at nearby nations, when competing chess players have been brutally knocked out by IMs for using the wrong door whilst entering the playing hall, but as they were not English IMs and were from somewhere else in Western Europe, there is nothing relevant here other than a resulting loss of prize money for an English GM. There is other content I could mention, such as English chess players being shot and shot dead several times, but its been reported so many times and is still a bit sketchy, as well as all manner of incidents which we would refer to as punch-ups or fisticuffs or bust-ups. Yes, much of the crime in the English chess scene is well documented on forums, blogs, archivists and various news channels, so you can do your own research if you so wish, and yes of course you will find that I have added to that stuff publicly and there is verifiable content there to be seen but much is not verifiable online, however, and sources depend upon who you know. All friends, acquaintances and I really do in private is slag these chess-playing criminals off right proper, chuck insults about left, right and centre and use a tons of foul and abusive language amongst ourselves before being told to pipe down by our wives -and yes I suppose its true its usually after we’ve had a few sherbets. I did write to the BBC and Panorama about one individual once as they look for stories all the time but they weren’t interested. In that email, I didn’t slag anyone off. Once again, all this can be verified online elsewhere, please do you own research, it can all be easily found. This site is principally a celebration of chess. I am not an investigative journalist, however two of my friends are. I love to write and the content of this site is broad. Content that is negative does come up and can be mentioned in passing from time to time but that’s as far as it goes and it has been that way for well over a decade already. I wish you good day.
M J M
