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Year Book 2018-19 Contents |
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11/10/2018 FIDE Presidency
Arkady Dvorkovich of Russia is the new president if FIDE, along with the following officials on his original “ticket”:
Additionally, England’s Nigel Short was appointed a Vice-President.
The election for the presidency of the Fédération Internationale des Échecs (FIDE) took place on 03/10/2018 at the Olympiad in Batumi, Georgia.
This result is seen by some as meaning FIDE continues as an arm of Russian foreign policy, rather than becoming a politically neutral sporting body. Bachar Kouatly and Julio Granda Zuniga sound vaguely familiar as chess-players from decades ago.
The English Chess Federation’s board meeting on 15/06/2018 had decided to nominate Nigel Short, who had presumably asked them to do so. Another candidate to succeed Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, was Georgios Makropoulos (Greece), the then-current Deputy President. The Deputy President listed on Georgios Makropoulos’s ticket was ECF International Director Malcom Paine. It seems Nigel Short’s decision came after Malcolm Paine siding with the Greek candidate, and no friction between Short and Paine was to be inferred.
At an ECF Board meeting held on 20/09/2018, the ECF Board decided to support Georgios Makropoulos, as Nigel Short seemed not to have gained much following, and the current state of UK-Russian relations precluded support of Arkady Dvorkovich.
(The background to the call for the replacement of out-going president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov were given in an earlier notice.)
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