The 2006 FIDE election has concluded on Friday, June 2, 2006.
The final votes were:
96 Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
54 Bessel Kok
The following are past FIDE Presidents:
Alexander Rueb 1924-1949
Folke Rogard 1949-1970
Max Euwe 1970-1978
Fridrik Olafsson 1978-1982
Florencio Campomanes 1982-1995
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov 1995-
Incumbent FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was reelected by a wide margin with 96 votes against Bessel Kok`s 54. The two protagonists praised each other for their love for chess. In his address after his reelection, Kirsan pledged to attend to the concerns raised by the Bessel Kok campaign and, in the FIDE spirit of `Gens Una Sumus` invited his workers to join the FIDE team. Kok in turn thanked his supporters and called the election a fair fight with secret voting. The FIDE General Assembly applauded as the two gave each other a warm embrace.
At the start of the General Assembly, a board of Canvassers was appointed to review proxies and establish a quorum. The board consisted of FIDE Honorary Member Casto Abundo of the Philippines and former FIDE Executive Director Emmanuel Omuku of Nigeria for the Kirsan team, and former Noureddine Tabbane of Tunisia and lawyer Eric P.A. Keyzer representing the Bessel Kok team.
The question of representation of the Peru Chess Federation, which was a matter for the board to decide, was brought to plenary session and this caused further delay as the matter was debated. In the end, the decision of the Board of Canvassers not to allow Peru to vote was the ultimate result as the two opposing sides could not come to an agreement.
Carol Jarecki, representing the British Virgin Islands, called the roll as Allan Herbert of Barbados stamped, signed and handed out ballots.
At the end of the first day, FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov appointed Zurab Azmaiparashvili of Georgia, Nizar El Haj of Libya and Khalifa Al Hitmi of Qatar as FIDE Vice Presidents.
What a letdown! I hoped Kok would make it.
Congratulations to both the winners and the losers! It was a good fight until the very end, no quick draw.
Incumbent FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was reelected by a wide margin with 96 votes against Bessel Kok`s 54. In his address after his reelection, Kirsan pledged to attend to the concerns raised by the Bessel Kok campaign and, in the FIDE spirit of `Gens Una Sumus` invited his workers to join the FIDE team. Kok in turn thanked his supporters and called the election a fair fight with secret voting. The FIDE General Assembly applauded as the two protagonists gave each other a warm embrace.
Susan is there any way to get people to join up with a handle name before posting.
I am very sad about the election results. I was very hopeful for change.
A very very depressing result. Corruption rules the world of chess. It’ll depend on Kirsan’s “personal” wealth for years to come. Who cares where it came from. Who cares about Kalmykians. Long live “chess
city”.
hey Tommy, a lot of people prefer to remain “Anonymous,” and I cant blame them with all the domestic spying going on,and the climate of fear in this great nation of ours.
Well, as they say, the people have spoken. so its Mr. Kirsan.
Maybe the best Mr. Kok and his supporters can do is put up a Professional Chess Grandmasters Association.
This PCGA can be headed by Mr. Kok, with GMs not satisfied with fide. Plus you guys who think fide should be forgotten and buried in the past.
A lot of you guys out there say fide is corrupt and can not attract sponsors, so why not form PCGA a fresh name, fresh look with which to get sponsors.
after all fide sucks, right? it cant get sponsors. so why join it?
lets bury it and put up a new organization.
What about the Continental Presidents elections? Who won? Who cares about FIDE elections, really?
“Corruption rules the world of chess.”
Only corrupt can recognize corruption.
Only ones who were in love can recognize love.
“This PCGA can be headed by Mr. Kok, with GMs not satisfied with fide. Plus you guys who think fide should be forgotten and buried in the past.”
Kok’s friend and promoter Short claimed publicly (www.chessbase) that most of the GMs bought their titles and are thus corrupt as corrupt can get, based on inside stories from his ukranian girlfriend.
aaron
people can still get an anonymous handle. all the web sites do that. they can pick any name. but at least we get to know the person and his views. there is so much less from reading one anonymous after the other anonymous. why bother letting me have a name.
“there is so much less from reading one anonymous after the other anonymous.”
Complain to the blog developers, maybe they’ll remove the anonym option.