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George Duke wrote on Sat, Aug 16, 2014 03:06 PM UTC:
Congratulations to both:
http://en.chessbase.com/post/fide-elections-putin-congratulates-ilyumzhinov.  Who can explain Kasparov's, "While Europe is becoming a lost continent...."?  [Incidentally over ten years ago, Chessbase deleted or revised after a while a slur on Africans by Kasparov in article covering Wijk aan Zee chess tournament.  The great former champion by now makes complete amends in promoting Chess in Africa not only during the campaign.]

There will be another election in four years, and for all his successes, such as having over 200 member states, Ilyumzhinov probably doesn't want it for life. FIDE is relatively new organization, just turning 90 years, as 1500-year-old Chess goes. This thread being Anand-Carlsen 2013, by time of election 2018 we may have Carlsen-Anand V, if there are any takers besides Sochi.  Anyway rest assured Chess variants are sure to overtake standard little 64-square OrthoChess, if only for sake of making it interesting to Computers again. 

After diverting side-trip, back to games of Carlsen and Anand in anticipation of Sochi 2014.

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