FIDE site has had a makeover. Probably a birthday present to Kirsan

http://www.fide.com



Here is the old one so you can compare
http://66.232.119.96/default.asp

that birthday joke was awesome.

Too bad that video with Kirsan's chess-boxing isn't working

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Originally posted by ebutaljib:


Too bad that video with Kirsan's chess-boxing isn't working

Perhaps the reason FIDE keeps changing things is because Kirsan took a few too many blows to the head in those matches...

Probably he gets his orders from "above". He claims he was abducted by aliens.



I see that they keep on changing the old and new site on the www.fide.com adress. For some period it displays the new site, but then it switches back to the old.

Ah, now I can see the new site. Very nice...

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Originally posted by ebutaljib:
Probably he gets his orders from "above". He claims he was abducted by aliens.

Aren't you a little late for April Fools?

No April fool's hoaxes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsan_Ilyumzhinov


He also believes that chess was given to us by aliens

Well, you know the saying, 'Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me'...

Okay, so maybe the aliens hit him one time too many...

Funny, when I go to FIDE site it shows me the old one, but if I go to the fide site through a (american) proxy server it shows the new site. It's location dependent.