Handshakegate, part 3
First, you can find the video of the start of Short-Cheparinov here. Second, I had wondered parenthetically in my post on round 8 of Corus what would happen in Tuesday's Topalov-Kramnik game; you'll find the answer in the aforementioned video link. Here's what it says:
Addendum: Apparently there is no handshake planned for the Topalov-Kramnik game on Tuesday. In an interview an in the Bulgarian sports news agency SportNi Topalov's manager Silvio Danailov was asked: "On Tuesday Topalov plays Kramnik. FIDE has said the players will have to pay a fine of they do not shake hands." Danailov's answer: "I think there will be no shake of hands because nobody will give his hand first."
Related Posts (on one page):
- Handshakegate resolved: Cheparinov apologizes, Short wins anyway
- Handshakegate, part 3
Posted by Dennis Monokroussos on
Sunday January 20, 2008 at 7:11pm
2. Who invents these rules? The FIDE Presidential Board.
3. What if the arbiter doesn't catch them? Maybe there's a job available for those concerned about such things. But seriously, the very few big feuds in contemporary chess are well-known, so even if the rule is silly it's not likely to prove a logistical nightmare for beleaguered arbiters.
Seriously though; presumably this rule was created for those (rare) situations where some player does not or refuses to shake hands with his/her opponent, even if there was no prior conflict between them or if they have never met before.
Okay.
Now is this such a big deal? Seriously.
I say: get real.
I could start a -very long- list of things that would disturb me a lot more. (Surely you can think of some of those yourself.)
If somebody wants to behave like an *******, there is not much you can do about it. The world is not perfect. Not every person is a nice person. We don't have to like it, but we can deal with it. Some FIDE rule will not change that.
1) So it does no good.
2) People should have the right to refuse or not want to shake hands because shaking hands is a social convention with meaning beyond chess. If my opponent insulted me personally, I am not going to shake his hand, sorry.