Kirsan Ilyumzhinov sues Anatoly Karpov
Karpov and Kasparov exhausted themselves as the chess players says Ilyumzhinov
Report by Chessdom
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of FIDE, has sued Anatoly Karpov for defamation, reports Gazeta.ru.
The lawsuits were filed with Moscow and international courts, Ilyumzhinov said in an interview with Gazeta on Thursday. He did not specify the courts, but cited Karpov’s allegations of corruption in FIDE, for which the 12th World champion has not provided any evidence.
“This is the first time during my 20-year career when I reported to a court. Now I applied to FIDE ethical commission in Italy and filed a claim to a (Moscow’s district) court,” Ilyumzhinov, who is also president of Kalmykia republic in southern Russia, said.
Ilyumzhinov said he had also filed a complaint with FIDE’s ethics commission. “Karpov and Kasparov exhausted themselves as chess players, that is why they try to draw public attention with the inadequate behavior,” Ilyumzhinov said.
Earlier Karpov was criticized for not providing any evidence for corruption by multiple chess politicians including TCF President Ali Nihat Yazici, but such evidence resulted to be not existing.
This is the second lawsuit in chess that starts for this week, after the candidate for the ECU presidency Silvio Danailov presented a case against Chessbase for violating copyright of the World Chess Championship broadcast.
Karpov should stop his dirty and campaign.
Seeing GM after GM either side with Ilyumzhinov, or fail to repudiate him—and how could they, after 17 years of allowing the man to make a joke out of professional chess—I can honestly say that if there is no professional chess at all in 5 years, I’ll enjoy reading the news.
A man who says he talks to aliens, whose government murders jouralists, and whose source of wealth is quite opaque—you think ordinary people have not noticed how the association tarnishes every single GM? We noticed.
You guys have only cared about the money.
Agree very much with you Anonymous 11:04. Karpov may have some faults but is certainly not nearly as bad as this.
And after 13 years of Ilyumzhinov insisting on idiotic ways of deciding the World Championship, we are now going to have the likely challenger (Carlsen or Kramnik)DECIDED ON A 4-GAME MINI-MATCH. This is just absurd.
On competence alone, Ilyumzhinov must go.