Part 2 The Axiom Interview
Originally Posted by HeavyKnight Interview Question
Some say or imply that you actually have had a strong impact in the Australian Chess in early 70s and that you have actually represented Australia in an Olympiad. I am not going to ask you to confirm or deny this, but on the other hand someone who was selected to participate in a program that would decide future Chess directions in the powerful USSR, had to be good. Did you try to play a major role in the Australian Chess?
My work for Australian Chess has largely been 'behind the scenes'. I cannot go into details here, only to say ,that I am part of an underground worldwide chess network, seeking to re assert chess on the culture-map in the west. During my work for the last 30 odd years, I have uncovered a most sinister plot against chess itself! :-
The Great Chess Conspiracy
We all know the early seventies was the height of chess popularity in the west.This was a threat to the chess powers in the east. It was also a threat to the global ruling elite. So at a clandestine meeting(in late 1973) within the Bilderberg Group, between FIDE officials,s ecret service, and members of the Rockerfeller and Rothschild families, it was agreed to stymie and hamper any attempts by chess to gain a firm stable foothold in both the public psyche and popular culture itself.
Why you may ask? Well, basically, the global ruling elite (GRE), are threatened by thinking people, their whole programming paradigm is based on 'dumbing down' the population,through the education system,the media, popular culture and psy ops.
Chess is an escape from this paradigm, and brain scan experiments show,that the brain operates at different wavelength frequencies when playing chess,sometimes going into a high order meditative state. It is in this state ,that lateral thinking or 'outside the box' thinking is greatly facilitated. Chess also excercises the brain in pure objective,rational analysis, so this combination of effects presented a potent cocktail with the potential to free the brain from its programming. This of course was highly threatening to the GRE, so along with corrupt FIDE officials and the help of clandestine agents, a plot was hatched to keep chess 'underground'.
The effects of this ghastly attack on chess can be seen in the last 30 odd years :- Fischer was the victim of mk ultra and tavistockian mind control, they knew if they could destroy our figurehead, they could destroy the upswell of popularity in chess.
Note the lack of govt funding for chess, despite the most powerful of arguments supporting it!
Note how major corporations blatently prostitute the image of chess in tv and print commercials, yet rarely give a dime in sponsorship!
Chess has been deliberately shunned because it threatened to exalt the virtues of thinking, challanging the programmed culture.A culture designed to keep the 'slaves' in their 'boxes'.
So when we wonder why chess has struggled so much since the heady days of c1972, we now know the reason. However, we have had some victories along the way, the 'English chess explosion' of the 1980s,was a success,due to some imaginative management and hard work of uk chess officials at the time,......im proud to say an ex SCT member was a part of the behind the scenes work there. Also recently new laws in the UK, open the door for chess funding (again,this was done through our contact in mi6 and a british parliamentarian), but they have new tricks to keep us at bay,which have been leaked and picked up by our agents in London. We fight on!
So to answer your question, my role in Australian chess, has and is one of behind the scenes work,constantly monitoring chess officials,the health of Australian chess, liasing, cooperating and sharing information around the world with other 'chess agents' with the goal of furthering the cause of chess, in australia and world wide.
Originally Posted by HeavyKnight Interview Question
Another theory suggests that you came to Australia in the early 80s as a FIDE master, that you lived in Sydney after having won a few tournaments in your way to Australia, but on your arrival here you got very disappointed by the existing state of affairs here, and after a while you gave up keeping only a few select students. Again without asking you to confirm or deny this, what is your opinion about Australian Chess, its strengths, weaknesses, aspirations?
HK, there are many stories surrounding Axiom, and most are not true. It is not true that I was disappointed by the existing state here, I was well briefed before taking up my post here and it was as expected.
Yes some students have been given the information to continue my work when I'm gone. I chose the posting in Australia as it was well known for imaginative opening theory (my specialist area!), this is its strength. Its weakness is only one that befalls most countries, lack of public profile, exposure, professionalism, (ie.) money.
The fact that the Australian govt does not fund chess to the tune of at least a million dollars a year, should be met with absolute raging anger by the chess community...... we need to become more aggressive on this issue. We shoud aspire to prestigious govt funded tournaments, and to blow away the artificial impediments that stand in the way of chess progress.
"CHESS FOR ONE, AND ALL FOR CHESS"