FIDE President Sponsors $1 Million Campomanes Memorial Tournament Series
Friday, 11 June 2010 10:29
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov today announced his sponsorship of the prize fund of $1 million for a series of Campomanes Memorial tournaments.
The FIDE President attended the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Chess Confederation Annual Meeting in Subic Freeport, Philippines.
Ten $100,000 tournaments are slated over ten years in the 10-member ASEAN nations starting with the Campomanes Memorial tournament this August in Manila, Philippines and then in Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Brunei.
Florencio Campomanes, FIDE President from 1982-1995, passed away last month at the age of 83.
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And Karpov brought in a big zilch for sponsorship, only big talk.
We hope Kirsan’s money will be placed in a well organised, well spent and WELL ACCOUNTED event. A lot of shady organizers in the ASEAN region has driven away sponsors before and it’s getting worse by the day…well, FIDE elections are coming and we still don’t know whether this is for real!
It seems that the legend Mr. Karpov is talking about is coming true while the Kasparov-Karpov-ACP mafia and its invalid world champions (Kramnik who has stolen the match which was Shirov’s or Anand who has won in Mexico where Topalov wasn’t there ) hasn’t restored the image of chess.
Once again Kirsan has reached into his pocket to pay for the organization of events.
Once again Karpov has done nothing but fly around to countries asking for hundreds of thousands of dollars for his ‘campaign’.
Karpov cares about Karpov and not about chess.
Yes, it is chess politics as usual of FIDE and ACF with the added “spice” of election.
I wonder if anonymous is part of the Kirsan campaign team? A guy whocasually talks about meeting alien’s should not be running FIDE
So Kirsan reaches into his personal pockets again, this time for $1m.
Then why is there a FIDE logo attached to this news, as it has nothing to do with FIDE.
Also just out of curiosity, does anyone know where Kirsan Ilhumzhinov got all these millions of dollars from? Does he run a big multinational business or own an oil field or something?
Just another carrot Kirsan uses to bait the chess world…
Are we going to fall for it again?