tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4459360717297142573.post4448572281857699942..comments2024-03-29T18:31:49.454+11:00Comments on chessexpress: The ElectionShaun Presshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00897215011002594039noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4459360717297142573.post-18086754128259382712018-10-11T20:00:11.498+11:002018-10-11T20:00:11.498+11:00A bit of a longer explanation required. For the 20...A bit of a longer explanation required. For the 2018 election, Kirsan was not a candidate. His Presidency had become so detrimental to the state of FIDE due to the US Sanctions placed on him that FIDE had their bank accounts frozen.<br /><br />So this changed the picture enormously. With Kirsan gone, three different candidates put their hands up, all promising different things and a different direction. Dvorkovich's campaign was just simply better.<br /><br />Makro's campaign really had a feel of, I have been with fide for so long, you do not want to change from me because I have done all this stuff and changing is too big a risk. Well as recent elections have shown, the punters have been quite willing to turf out those who run campaigns like that, rather than telling the punters what they are really going to do to move the organisation forward.<br /><br />Nigel Short's biggest handicap was that he had gotten offside quite a lot of Federations from the past and it seemed like he was not a serious candidate. I do not think his campaign was helped by the IED's and molotov cocktails that were being lobbed from those running against people from his own ticket in concurrent elections. Tough to convince Federations your ticket is worth putting in charge of FIDE when it is coming under attack from 'inside'.<br /><br />In 2014, Kasparov was a very polarising figure, you either love him or hate him, either as a chess player and certainly as a chess politician. More people dislike him as a chess politician. And with Kirsan about to 'buy' the votes of a lot of nations and no sanctions at that time, it was almost a foregone conclusion that Kirsan would win in 2014. Kirsan had also previously stacked a lot of the committee's with 'his people' or threatened those who were on those committees that if they did not vote for him that they would not be on those committee's anymore. See previous correspondence on this blog for prove of this.<br /><br />Kirsan also made a 'bullshit' promise to fund $20 million for chess that was admitted by Makro straight after the election, but it was believed during the campaign.<br /><br />In 2010, Kirsan made deals with different groups and again with weak Federations to keep power, and also with some of the business interests that he had defeated previously. So Kirsan just used the power of incumbency to keep the position, as well as threatening those who did not vote for him. Garvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252527246904556251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4459360717297142573.post-20789137528499323422018-10-11T15:36:50.948+11:002018-10-11T15:36:50.948+11:00A simple answer - Dvorkovich is so much better.A simple answer - Dvorkovich is so much better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4459360717297142573.post-49910106999977830402018-10-11T14:20:01.726+11:002018-10-11T14:20:01.726+11:00Can you explain, why Dvorkovich, but not Karpov or...Can you explain, why Dvorkovich, but not Karpov or Kasparov? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com