FIDE Master

Title inaugurated in 1978 for a player with an ELO rating around 2300, after recommendation of his national federation.

Whatever opinions people might have about Ilyumzhinov, I am sure that exactly those accusations by the US authorities are far-fetched. It looks more like a revenge for the 2014 FIDE elections which Kasparov lost to Ilyumzhinov by a wide margin. Vladimir Kramnik
2016
” Chess is most certainly not my life.” Tony Miles
We must finish once and for all with the neutrality of chess. We must condemn once and for all the formula “chess for the sake of chess”, like the formula “art for art’s sake”. We must organize shock brigades of chess-players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess. Nikolai Vasilyevich Krylenko
Sport can make girls feel more stronger, more stable and you can fight in the future when you enter the society. It is a really good quality for a girl and I think sports are a good way to generate your personality which is really important. Hou Yifan
2016
People knew about 110 years of chess history. Nowadays, nobody is able to tell you the name of the world champion of 2000. Anatoly Karpov
2005

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