Posted on 10/06/2016 11:13:11 AM PDT by nickcarraway
After years of playing with pawns and bishops, the reigning queen of US chess finds herself in the biggest stalemate of her career.
Nazi Paikidze, 22, shook up the chess world over the weekend when the US women’s champion announced she’s boycotting the Women’s World Chess Championship in Iran in February instead of complying with the country’s law that women cover up with a hijab. The Russian-born star, who now lives in Las Vegas, told The Post she won’t budge unless FIDE — the world chess federation — moves the competition to a “no-conflict” zone or makes wearing the hijab optional.
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Headline: Nazi goosesteps thru US Chess Championship
Think Ignatius/Ignatz male name. Nazi was a popular nickname for Ignatz at one time. Jarring to the ear, like American Indian swastikas to the eye
She’s Georgian, not Russian.
Someone post the graphic with the table umbrellas...
She’s NOT GUILTY, especially given her brains.
She’s georgian.
Nazi means “gentle” in Georgian.
Georgia was the second country in the world to have christianity as the official religion
But multiculturalism tells us we should submit to others’ cultures, no matter how oppressive.
I should’ve learned to master chess.
Good for her. Any so called winner will have a Pyrrhic victory
“Iran” means “Aryan” in the native Farsi language.
Yet, a Nazi doesn’t want to play there.
Good luck to the guy who lands this catch. He'll have a hard time keeping up.
Funny, she don’t look Nazish.
“Her first name, Nazí, is a Georgian name and is not uncommon there. It is pronounced, she explains, “nah-ZEE”. It means “delicate” or “tender”. She was named after her grandmother.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naz%C3%AD_Paikidze
It’s a common name where she comes from, has nothing to do with the German meaning.
It’s pronounced “Nasi” and I think it translates as “little”.
I played for years. Trust me when I say that this girl is a unicorn.
Would luv to spend One Night in Bangkok with her. :0
EXCERPT:
“...in 1935, Dr Hjalmar Schacht, the Nazi Economics minister noted the Aryan origin of the Persians and encouraged the Persian Reza Shah Pahlavi to ask foreign delegates to use the term Iran, “land of Aryans” instead of Persia.”
“As the New York Times explained at the time, “At the suggestion of the Persian Legation in Berlin, the Tehran government, on the Persian New Year, March 21, 1935, substituted Iran for Persia as the official name of the country.”
Link:
http://www.persiansarenotarabs.com/renaming-persia/
The kind of queens we use would no excite you.
If you search her name you will find her site and you can send her an email supporting her stand. I just did, and I hope you’ll do the same.
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