A legal move from Karpov

First, here is the entire text distributed by White & Case, which is representing the Karpov campaign and many major chess federations in the matter.

“Pursuant to the letter of their counsel, White & Case, sent on 2 July 2010 to FIDE Executive Director David Jarrett, the national chess federations of France, Germany, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States, along with Karpov 2010, Inc., will imminently file a Request for Arbitration against FIDE with the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne, Switzerland. In view of confidentiality restrictions, no further information can be provided until further notice.”

No further information, but perhaps some speculation based on their recently published demand for Ilyumzhinov’s campaign documents by the same White & Case team. It would appear that they are intent on proving that the nominations of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov for FIDE president and of Beatriz Marinello for FIDE Vice President are not legitimate. If the Lausanne court rules this to be the case, it could disqualify the Ilyumzhinov ticket completely and turn this September’s FIDE election in Khanty-Mansiysk into a one-horse race with Karpov as the only candidate. If Ms. Marinello is disqualified that alone would disqualify the entire Ilyumzhinov ticket, since according to the regulations one candidate must be a woman and the Chilean-born American is the only woman on the ticket and the deadline for nominations has passed.

More information is available on www.ChessBase.com.

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