Mr. Silvio Danailov is the new President of the European Chess Union
29 September 2010
http://danailov-for-president.com
He won the election with 30 votes.
Second is Mr. Ali Nihat Yazici, the President of the Turkish Chess Federation with 24 votes.
Congratulations and good luck for Mr.Silvio Danailov and his team!
The ticket of Silvio Danailov, which will be the team to work in the following four years for ECU, includes not only chess professionals, but managers in different areas and from different parts of the world (full CVs of the team here). All of them expressed the hope for professionalization of the ECU and stability of the institution (read interview with Tomasz Sielicki, with Ion-Serban Dobronauteanu, and with Almog Burstein)
Silvio Danailov has promised to work on four pillars of a stable ECU, including feedback support, training of ideas, ethics in relationships, and outside support for chess. Among the future co-operations, ECU will work with UNESCO, will collaborate with Mensa, and create a club of the chess journalists.
Campaign website of the runner up, President of Turkish Chess Federation, Mr. Ali Nihat Yazici: http://www.wereurope.org
Congratulations!