"...the elephant in the room with smelly socks." LOL!
From Dlugy's FB page today:
"Now that the tournament is over and the Chief Arbiter, Mitko Iliev, who was in a potential conflict between the sponsor and organizer of the event, who was interested in showing that Borislav Ivanov is a fair player (who's strength just happens to vary between 1900 and 2700 on a bad and good day), and the situation at hand is finished with his duties, I can finally congratulate him on standing his ground and interpreting the tournament regulations according to common sense, and not to a strange standard, which would prove nothing if a player can only be searched with a metal detector. The amount of action there was at the tournament hall before each round: where all the players were freed of their cell phones, all their metallic items looked at, jamming units placed on both sides of the playing hall, strict security guards overseeing that noone talked, absolutely no spectators in the playing room, immediate compulsory departure mandated to all players finishing their games. All of that action would simply be a noise screen in order the miss the elephant in the room with smelly socks. Mitko saw through that and when I demanded a search before the game, convinced the sponsor to go through with that, overcoming Borislav's anger and (according to one of the top players in the tournament, who understands some Bulgarian,) cursing. As Borislav realized he ll be searched unprepared, he placed his jacket away and authored the famous circus scoresheet.
Bravo Mitko!"