ASTANA: Kazakh businessman Timur Turlov was elected as the eighth president of world chess governing body FIDE on Saturday after a closely fought contest at the organization’s General Assembly in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, . The election was widely seen as a defining vote for FIDE amid debates over governance, Russia’s place in international chess and the sport’s commercial future. Of FIDE’s 204 member federations, 202 were eligible to vote with the Russian and Rwandan federations suspended
Kazakh Turlov named as FIDE president
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