Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will face each other very soon in a pre-premiere of their World Chess Championship match, which is scheduled for next fall in London, England. Both they indeed will take part in the 5th GRENKE Chess Classic to be held in Karlsruhe and Baden-Baden, Germany from 31 March to 9 April 2018. It will be an important game especially for advertising purposes, in order to enhance reliability to a purely “Western” world match, organised by an “Eastern” (Russian) consortium, amidst tense controversies over East and West. Hysteria, ostentations of posthumous moral integrity, and punitive reprisals usually serve only to validate the rough purposes for which most so-called “intelligence” agencies of the “free” and “unfree” worlds do “politics” all the time and everywhere. It would rather take high-political and systemic answers by the institutions elected to do politics. I don’t know if England, with its conservative government, will be able to make itself more of an extra-European tourist destination, but of course I hope so.
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