12-08-2014, 08:53 AM
Some good insight from chess.com read the full article at <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.chess.com/news/breaking-ilyumzhinov-beats-kasparov-110-61-at-fide-presidential-elections-4528">http://www.chess.com/news/breaking-ilyu ... tions-4528</a><!-- m -->
Garry Kasparov, who suffered the biggest defeat of his life since he lost the world title to Vladimir Kramnik in 2000, remained surprisingly calm. He said to the journalists: “It's a very sad day for chess. I thought the numbers would be slightly better but after this cheering reaction about the 20 million dollars, I knew it was over.” Mr Kasparov speaking to the press About his strategy, he said: “Maybe wrongly, I avoided any personal attacks. We focused on positive things, plans, the future. They had no plans, nothing.”
“FIDE is ill. So many years with the same man and the same people around him, it poisons people's minds. It takes time and medicine to recover.”
Nigel Short was interviewed by VG right after the meeting. He said:
“It's an absolute tragedy what has happened today. It's worse than I thought. A crushing defeat. (...) We've got a despotic regime who is ruining the game of chess and chess will stagnate. For many more years actually as a result of this. There's nothing wrong with chess players. If you ask in the playing hall, I'll bet 9 out of 10 will vote for Kasparov. The problem is: delegates. If the delegate has received an incentive to vote in a particular way, it doesn't matter whatever reason or logic is presented to him.”
Garry Kasparov, who suffered the biggest defeat of his life since he lost the world title to Vladimir Kramnik in 2000, remained surprisingly calm. He said to the journalists: “It's a very sad day for chess. I thought the numbers would be slightly better but after this cheering reaction about the 20 million dollars, I knew it was over.” Mr Kasparov speaking to the press About his strategy, he said: “Maybe wrongly, I avoided any personal attacks. We focused on positive things, plans, the future. They had no plans, nothing.”
“FIDE is ill. So many years with the same man and the same people around him, it poisons people's minds. It takes time and medicine to recover.”
Nigel Short was interviewed by VG right after the meeting. He said:
“It's an absolute tragedy what has happened today. It's worse than I thought. A crushing defeat. (...) We've got a despotic regime who is ruining the game of chess and chess will stagnate. For many more years actually as a result of this. There's nothing wrong with chess players. If you ask in the playing hall, I'll bet 9 out of 10 will vote for Kasparov. The problem is: delegates. If the delegate has received an incentive to vote in a particular way, it doesn't matter whatever reason or logic is presented to him.”