
A small group of Canadian chess aficionados have found themselves smack-dab in a geopolitical power struggle, at odds with the West’s efforts to isolate Russia, and allied with a UFO-fearing, millionaire mini-Putin.This theatre of the absurd comes amid a hotly contested race for president of the World Chess Federation (FIDE). The race pits 19-year incumbent Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, an eccentric and repressive ex-President of a Russian enclave, against Garry Kasparov, a human rights campaigner and arguably history’s greatest chess player.
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