Last weekend, the FIDE elected president after the Russian Arkady Dvorkovich was forced to leave the presidential chair. His successor will be another Russian, Timur Turlov, even though the new president has a Kazakh passport. However, Turlov, as previously Dvorkovich, fails to comply with one of the rules approved in March 2022 by the FIDE Council, according to which "persons subject to sanctions or with any sentence against the right to hold h…
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Last weekend, the FIDE elected president after the Russian Arkady Dvorkovich was forced to leave the presidential chair. His successor will be another Russian, Timur Turlov, even though the new president has a Kazakh passport. However, Turlov, as previously Dvorkovich, fails to comply with one of the rules approved in March 2022 by the FIDE Council, according to which "persons subject to sanctions or with any sentence against the right to hold h…