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 cannot post anything related to them 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 might think and some of it has destroyed lives. 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. Yes, much of the crime in the English chess scene is well documented on forums and so on so you can do your own research if you so wish, much is not however and depends on who you know. All friends, acquaintances and I do in private is slag these criminals off right proper, chuck insults about left, right and centre and use a tons of foul and abusive language. 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.
M J M
