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Besides the 39th World Chess Olympiad event in Khanty-Mansiysk we had the elections for FIDE presidency which took place with a lot of controversies .
Mr Kirsan Ilyumzhinov gains another 4 year in the head of FIDE as he won the elections by 95 votes to 55 ( with three abstentions ) against a very strong initiation of Anatoly Karpov .
Mr Ilyumzhinov said:
"The vote showed that the overwhelming majority of countries support my work and my uniting of the chess world.
The main thing is that I have managed in the last 15 years to unite the chess world. We have one champion and one federation."
Mr Anatoli Karpov at his campaign's website said:
" In an election that confirmed the worst of our fears about the integrity of the process, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov won the vote in Khanty-Mansiysk. Considering the rampant abuses that took place there, especially with the abhorrently corrupt proxy system, it is difficult, if not impossible, to consider this a legitimate election.
No matter how Anatoly Karpov decides to continue this battle to restore and transform the chess world, he wishes to express his thanks to everyone who joined us in this effort. We promoted chess worldwide to an unprecedented degree during this campaign. We proved beyond any doubt that a vast majority of the world’s chessplayers support our agenda and our vision for the future of chess as a 21st century sport and of FIDE as a modern organization. This election also showed how it has become impossible to effect this change from within FIDE, which has long ceased to represent the federations or the chess players."
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