The New York Times Magazine on Kasparov and the FIDE Elections
As many of you may know, one of the coming non-chess highlights of the Tromso Olympiad is the FIDE Presidential Election (on August 11, I think, but I may be wrong about this), pitting former world champion Garry Kasparov against the 19-year-incumbent Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. Those interested can find so much material to read that the election will be over before they can finish reading it, so I'll just point you to this longish article in the popular press. (HT: Chris Falter.) In the unlikely event anyone is curious about who I'm rooting for, it's Kasparov, but I worry that while he's fantastic at attracting sponsors to the game he's equally adept at subsequently destroying those partnerships and chasing them away.
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