Presidential Election 2022

[Angus French]

It doesn't affect the thrust of your post. but I made it 55 (or 53 without Russia and Belarus).

I took the Europe list from https://fide.com/directory/member-federations and pasted it into a spreadsheet to count.

In that case, you will indeed have one too many. You will have included the Isle of Man, which is an Affiliated Organisation, not a Member Federation.

I used the list at https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/D0102, which I think is definitive.

Ah, OK. Thank you.

[NickFaulks]

Nigel was sent on missions to sign up more members for FIDE. These were often overseas territories of somewhere else, some being British overseas territories

That is indeed curious.

[A.Kluckova]

Re: Presidential Election 2022

No-chess public commented the information about the result of the FIDE election 175:16 in favor of the candidate from Ukraine, as a result of the fact that "the members of the chess community are generally wiser than the average rest of the population".

But I think you don't need to be more wiser to give the responsibility for so big organisation as FIDE is to somebody, who currently has problems with their own survival and is referred to the permanent help of another countries.







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[Chris Goodall]

But I think you don't need to be more wiser to give the responsibility for so big organisation as FIDE is to somebody, who currently has problems with their own survival and is referred to the permanent help of another countries.

There's a school of thought that the really wise thing to do is to take an interest in what policy differences exist between the candidates. Alas, there didn't seem to be any.