They could start by removing some personnel: the head-butting, move-retracting, tournament-rigging, Zurab Azmaiparashvili for instance. He is a disgrace to the organisation. But never let it be said that he is a dunderhead.

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When asked how the World Chess Federation FIDE could be improved (Nigel Short on FIDE: 'Either they don't know or they don't care'). Short had not long before been warned by the FIDE Ethics Commission for calling Azmaiparashvili a "dunderhead".

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He is warned by FIDE

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