Russian Chess Federation tidbits
SPRAGGETT ON CHESS
One of the most interesting chess sites coming out of Russia is the brain-child of chess grandmaster Pogonina. In both English and Russian, the site offers all sorts of interesting material, and seems to be an excellent source of information about the problems that the Russian Chess Federation is going thru right now while a fundamental re-structuring is in process.
They used to play together…Anatoly Karpov and Evgeny Bareev vs Arkady Dvorkovich and Alexander Zhukov Photo (C) Chess-Events.org
”The chess world is closely following the conflict inside the Russian Chess Federation, as it will largely affect chess in general and have a significant influence on the upcoming FIDE President elections. In one of our last reports we have described the situation, including Kasparov’s speech. Meanwhile, an official confirmation from a law company has been publicized, which states that the Supervisory Council has no power to endorse anyone since this organization doesn’t even have registered regulations. This makes Karpov’s pompous claims made at NY and other locations (that Russia has officially supported him) look faded.
Things are also getting heated at the Federation itself. The official website features Arkady Dvorkovich’s statement, as well as Women World Champion Alexandra Kosteniuk’s Open Letter in support of his position. According to unconfirmed by Pogonina.com rumors, new guards have been hired by the Russian Chess Federation, and Alexander Bakh’s (CEO of RCF, an avid supporter of Karpov) office has been sealed. It is not surprising given that Arkady Dvorkovich mentioned in his interview for ChessPro that he expects Alexander Bakh to resign, and has no intentions of cooperating with Karpov in the future.”
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