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Dear Mr. Anatoly Karpov,
Ex World Champion and candidate for 2010 FIDE President Post,
Dear Sir,
As I told you personally in Rijeka, at breakfast, we all respect you as a World Champion, as chess lovers. I wish you very good luck (you need a lot..., and it does not work in this business) for the upcoming FIDE elections.
I have read your letter, and saw that again either you do not read all these releases in the chess media (very bad for a candidate) or your words do not represent what is the truth.
Mr. Karpov, in your letter you mention that your opponent did not get any support letter from a voting federation. You missed a federation, my federation, the Turkish Chess Federation. I would like to understand if you do not care about that, or if your team (if there is one) does not inform you about that. I attach this link for you to see it.
On the other hand, sure we will vote for the best candidate we believe, for the sake of chess. But I cannot see in your letter anything you want to do except attack our current President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.
May I ask you kindly to be on the level of the respect you desire from all your fans, stop this negative campaign and tell us clearly what you want to do. Please do not tell us your allegations (I was insulted by you accusation that I was a "corrupt FIDE management member" – that is still on your website), it is shame to hear such as incredible untruth stories from such as legend. We still await a strong apology from you as a legend, this attitude is clearly not fair play.
Mr. Karpov, do not tell me please, like you said in the Sofia Press Conference, as answer you do not want to go to details. In your campaign website you say that the FIDE Management is corrupt.
GIVE US A FACT HOW WE ARE CORRUPT!!
I do not believe that a FIDE presidential candidate should attack everyone around the world with unreal accusations, You say that you will unite the world, but look what you have been doing in your campaign by accusing people with such as allegations.
And after the election when we shake each other hands (I hope you will be able to do it) you will understand those miscalculations. The FIDE Management has never in the history been as good as it is now, and believe me, when we win, it will be even better.
Best regards,
Ali Nihat YAZICI
President of Turkish Chess Federation
Vice President of FIDE
An astonishingly large number of readers have sent us links to the following story, which has appeared on other news sites as well and is circulating vigorously in the blogs, e.g. here.
A Russian MP has asked President Dmitry Medvedev to investigate claims by a regional president that he has met aliens on board a spaceship. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the leader of the southern region of Kalymkia, made his claim in a television interview.
MP Andre Lebedev is not just asking whether Mr Ilyumzhinov is fit to govern. He is also concerned that, if he was abducted, he may have revealed details about his job and state secrets. In his letter he says that – assuming the whole thing was not just a bad joke – it was an historic event and should have been reported to the Kremlin.
Mr Ilyumzhinov said in an interview on primetime television that he had been taken on board an alien spaceship which had come to planet Earth to take samples – and claims to have several witnesses.
As president of the World Chess Federation, he has spent tens of millions of dollars turning the impoverished republic into a mecca for chess players – building an entire village to host international tournaments.
Our readers should note that Andre Lebedev is the son of the controversial Vladimir Zhirinovsky, founder and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, which is actually a radical nationalist party. He is seeking attention for the party – with a fair amount of success, it would seem.
Britain's Sun had a field day with the
story, which is now being run all over the world, e.g.:
The story was broken by Vladimir Posner, Russia's answer to Larry King. We were told – but have not been able to independently verify – that Posner had done an interview with rival FIDE candidate Anatoly Karpov, after which at the insistence of the Ilyumzhinov camp, he had agreed to do one with the incumbent President. Apparently he was not too pleased about the pressure and conducted the interview in a fairly hostile manner:
Another note: we spoke with with Kirsan Ilyumzhinov about the abduction story a few years ago and gained a distinct impression that it was some kind of a humorous idea on his part. Recent conversations with members of Ilyumzhinov's inner circle seem to confirm this impression. But that is a tale for another time.
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