TheChessInquisitor

So. When you think chess world cannot be more like theatre, former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik comes on stage. Not with bishops, but, it seems, with his lawyers very ready. This new video , a very long speech, he says it is for GM David Navara. But it is clear, it is for many people, maybe people who are easy to convince by such dramatics. It is a masterclass in… well, something quite self-serving. Let's look closely at this, what he calls an "artificial scandal", though who is being artificial here is perhaps the real question. Kramnik, it looks, wants us to believe he is under terrible attack. He talks of "continuous attacks," "defamation, insults, and threats" for a whole year. And why? For his so-called noble act of "publishing statistics and trying to tell the truth". Whose truth, one might ask? And is this how one shares it? It is story we hear before: one man, he insists he knows the truth, against everyone else painted as ignorant...

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