Andrey Filatov to Lead Russian Team at Baku Olympiad

The sponsor of the World Championship match in Moscow Andrey Filatov doesn't have any ambitions to become the Chairman of the Russian Chess Federation's Supervisory Council, if Arkady Dvorkovich left it for any reason. Filatov stated this in an interview to the "Kommersant" newspaper. The businessman added that, in his view, the model, used in the Russian Chess Federation and other federations with a supervisory council, isn't right. "There must be a normal election of a head of an organisation, like in the past.

The president of the Russian Chess Federation Andrey Filatov told our website that he has no ambitions to head up FIDE if offered: "First of all, the current FIDE president is good enough. Secondly, this position is extremely time-consuming and is related to enormous number of air travels. So, I've got neither time nor desire for that."

The sanctions imposed on Kirsan Ilyumzhinov by the U.S. Department of the Treasury have made big problems for FIDE. This has been claimed by RCF President Andrey Filatov yesterday at his interview to the R-Sport Russian website. We are giving some of the excerpts translated into English, including this one.

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Azerbaijan chess Federation Vice-President Mahir Mammadov in his wide interview given to extratime az. said that he is sure that Armenian team will become one of the participants of the 2016 chess Olympiad which will take part in Baku.

In an interview with the newspaper "Sport-Express" the President of the Russian Chess Federation Andrey Filatov told how one time in his life, he had close contact with Garry Kasparov. It happened, he said, two years before he headed the Russian Chess Federation.

Chess can’t become part of the Winter Olympiad. This decision was made by the International Olympic Committee at the session held in Monte-Carlo.

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