It started in 2023, if not earlier. I have noticed the following features of that campaign:
- They do not quote Kramnik and recommend not reading his texts or watching his videos.
- They assert that Kramnik said A, while Kramnik, instead, said "Not A, but B."
- If Kramnik said C in the case of E, they assert that he also said C in the case of F.
- They intentionally confuse all relevant modalities and meanings of the terms.
- If Kramnik really did something wrong, it would almost never show up in such a discourse. It would not reveal itself.
- If Kramnik's ideas have some positive meaning in a particular context, they would be absolutely denied and ignored.
- The campaign clearly exemplifies the unpleasant truth that chess players are not as intelligent and moral as they are often perceived to be. Even several grandmasters and professors who play chess show up with complete nonsense.
The whole campaign is reduced to the banal McCarthyism and Russophobia - a form of racism. Arrogance, ignorance and stupid ethnocentrism. I am completely tired of the so-called "chess community".
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