Monday, May 01, 2006

Ilyumzhinov and Bessel Kok join forces?

I don't know how accurate this is but the Ottawa Chess club message board has brought some speculation that KIrsan Ilyumzhinov and Bessel Kok have made a secret deal. Is this "the right move" for Kok?

A guy named Kevin wrote:
The rumour of a Kirsan-Kok agreement to unite before the Fide election turns out to have a sound basis. It is believed that a secret agreement has been achieved which will have the two work together on various fide projects, save Kok's reputation, and have the fide congress merely 'confirm' Kirsan's continued position as fide president. This appears to imply that there will be no actual vote taking at the upcoming congress in Italy.


There appears to be nothing on this on the FIDE website and nothing on Chessbase.com.

Also there appears to be nothing on Bassel Kok's "the right move" website. In fact Bassel Kok's website has recently released two papers entitled:
POSITION PAPER - CHESS IN SCHOOLS 28.04.2006
POSITION PAPER - FIDE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 29.04.2006

So somehow i don't think Kirsan and Bessel are planning a truce. I could be proven wrong.

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