AZERBAIJANI CHESS PLAYERS SLAPED IN THE FACE OF THEIR OWN MEDIA

Aysor
Oct 29 2009
Armenia

The Azerbaijani media is surprised that the Azerbaijani and Armenian
chess players have refused to comment on the competition process of
the 7th round that took place in Serbia in Novi Sad in the frameworks
of the European team league. If it is normal with the Azerbaijani,
as they have lost in that vital game, the behavior of the Armenian
Gross Master was not understandable, as the Azerbaijani journalists
noted, the Armenians had took a victory and they could speak about it.

The Azerbaijani media makes wrong suppositions. We all still
remember how they were adding not existing ideas in the Teymur
Rajabov’s interview about considering all the Armenians enemies and
so on and so forth. It took place years ago, because of that Teymur
Rajabov received tough criticism of the world media. In the result
the professionalism of the Azerbaijani journalists became obvious
to the entire world. By that step the Armenian chess players simply
regarded the "high quality" of the Azerbaijani media.

The important point here is that the Azerbaijani media received a slap
on its face by the chess players of their own country. Naturally after
the meeting with the Armenian team, especially after losing the game,
they didn’t want their words to be misrepresented again under the
political context and to give rise to new not justified problems.

Long before Teymur Rajabov had apologized to Levon Aronyan, mentioning
that he hasn’t made any hostile statement. But even that didn’t save
his face as he was to appear in the Azerbaijani media and apologize
there. That step naturally was not in Rajabov’s power and as a
result the Armenian chess players do not notice him during different
tournaments now. They also ignore the Azerbaijani media…