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Léo Battesti (born 6 November 1953) is a Corsican politician, journalist – he worked as chief editor of a Corsican weekly from 1981 to 1992 – and chess enthusiast. He has run for the Presidency of the French Chess Federation and was formerly the chief editor of the French chess quarterly "Échec & Mat".
Corsica (French: Corse) is an island located west of Italy and southeast of the French mainland in the Mediterranean Sea. Although it is closer to Italy than to the French mainland, politically Corsica is part of France. The native Corsican language is recognised as a regional language by the French government. The French general and emperor Napoléon Bonaparte was born in 1769 in the Corsican capital of Ajaccio, while the northern town of Calvi claims to be the birthplace of the explorer Christopher Columbus.
The following four-minute video was shown by Léo Battesti on Saturday during the Chess and Education Conference at the London Chess Classic. It was created by Marc Andria Battesti and includes beautiful images from French Television and excerpts of a report on ViaStella "Chess in Corsica, the royal road" – all accompanied by the well-known Allegria Canta U Populu Corsu.
Here are some of the statistics listed in the video: