"Gens una sumus" ("We are one family") is the motto of the World Chess Federation (FIDE). Yet when officials from some 200 countries gather for their congress in Samarkand on Saturday, September 26, it is not likely to feel like a joyous family reunion. A new FIDE president is to be elected in Uzbekistan , and a three-way, politically charged race for the post has erupted, with the outcome uncertain. It has been clear since July that the incumbent FIDE president, Arkady Dvorkovich, would not be standing for re-election . The European Union had placed the former Russian deputy prime minister on its sanctions list due to his support for Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine.
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