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European Youth Championships 2015

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    sinbad68
    Registered Users Posts: 398 ✭✭sinbad68


    2bts wrote: »
    Regular (daily?) reports at http://www.icu.ie/news/1242


    I have to agree, these daily reports ( telegrams)
    http://www.icu.ie/articles/498 are pointless,you learn more from irish results page than reports

    http://chess-results.com/tnr180028.aspx?lan=13&art=25&fedb=IRL&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=984

    It is better to wait until after the competition and give us at least one page report with some photos, to make us all wish we were there instead. Some questions you could ask here are


    1.Why is this competition being run at end of september forcing kids to miss over a week of school and is not being held in the summer ?!

    2. Why fide charges so much for players to change federation ? The plaza family paid a lot of money to play for ireland.

    https://ratings.fide.com/fedchange.phtml?year=2015

    3. Why Live game broadcast are so shambolic ?, Although no one was expecting all the games to be broadcast live , at least telling us the format for selected live games would be good.

    4. Why The country Turkey is being allowed to interlope into this competition ?


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    Tim Harding
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Tim Harding


    In answer to #4, what is your problem? Turkey is no interloper. It is geographically in Europe (in part), and is a member of UEFA etc. The country not geographically in Europe but allowed to compete in Europe (in many sports) is Israel, for well-known political reasons.

    Points 1-3 seem valid to me though I know nothing about the Plaza family. FIDE wants money for everything.


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    sinbad68
    Registered Users Posts: 398 ✭✭sinbad68


    Turkey may have one foot in Europe but the rest of the body including it's heart & culture lays in Asia. It should stop pretending to be a European nation, accept it's heritage and be proud and stop groveling to be let in the EU. As for Israel, She is surrounded by hostile neighbours who don't want to play chess with her and easier on her and many nations in the region for Israel to play in Europe.


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    Tim Harding
    Closed Accounts Posts: 954 ✭✭✭Tim Harding


    sinbad68 wrote: »
    Turkey may have one foot in Europe but the rest of the body including it's heart & culture lays in Asia. It should stop pretending to be a European nation, accept it's heritage and be proud and stop groveling to be let in the EU. As for Israel, She is surrounded by hostile neighbours who don't want to play chess with her and easier on her and many nations in the region for Israel to play in Europe.

    Seriously off-topic! Most people already know what you say about Israel. I am not interested in arguing with you. This is not a political argument just a geographical-historical correction. Before the First World War Turkey had a considerably greater percentage of its area in Europe than it now has.


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    sinbad68
    Registered Users Posts: 398 ✭✭sinbad68


    Tim Harding wrote: »
    Seriously off-topic! Most people already know what you say about Israel. I am not interested in arguing with you. This is not a political argument just a geographical-historical correction. Before the First World War Turkey had a considerably greater percentage of its area in Europe than it now has.

    Yes, This is off-topic, just to respond to your geographical- historical correction, why not go back 1000 years in time instead of 100 years ago, when there were few Turks living in Turkey as virtually whole of that geographical area was part of Roman/Byzantine empire with totally different population before Turkish tribes invasion.Yes, Let's get back to chess


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    A.Sanchez
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭A.Sanchez


    Turkey is certainly more European than Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and Cyprus both Historically and Geographically so why are you calling out Turkey?


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    #8
    reunion
    Registered Users Posts: 1,334 ✭✭✭reunion


    *mod note* No more talk about the geography of countries. Stay on topic, thanks.


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