The president of your Russian Chess Federation Andrey Filatov told our Web site that he has no ambitions to go up FIDE if presented: "First of all, The existing FIDE president is adequate. Secondly, this place is amazingly time intensive and is particularly related to monumental variety of air travels. So, I bought neither time nor wish for that."

PINKERTON: "All throughout the European Union there was the feeling that Here is how we, the Europeans, will show our ethical superiority…