Tuesday
Sep282010
Iljumzhinov Officially On The Ballot
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at 1:25AM
Anatoly Karpov & team tried to have current FIDE President Kirsan Iljumzhinov tossed out of the current race for that job, but lost. With that obstacle cleared, I expect, unfortunately, that Iljumzhinov will win - no doubt he, like Florencio Campomanes before him, will have used the position to ingratiate himself with enough small countries to win re-election without much trouble. (The presidential election is determined by the votes of FIDE's member countries, where nations with barely a chess club having equal voting weight to chess powers like Russia, Germany and the United States.)
tagged Iljumzhinov, Karpov