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Chess-Presidential candidate Buettner pitches outsider shake-up, promises to leave politics out of FIDE

♟️ Can An Outsider Checkmate Chess Politics?

Published by OOPSONLINE.IN · Source: The Straits Times · 1 min read · · Updated

🔥 OOPS SAYS

Running for president of a famously dramatic governing body on a platform of "no chess experience and no politics" is certainly a bold opening gambit. Let's see if he gets checked early.

What actually happened

BENGALURU, Sept 23 - FIDE presidential candidate Jan Henric Buettner says his lack of traditional chess credentials is not a weakness but an asset, with the German entrepreneur betting that his business experience can modernise the world governing body. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Key points

  • BENGALURU, Sept 23 - FIDE presidential candidate Jan Henric Buettner says his lack of traditional chess credentials is not a weakness but an asset, with the German entrepreneur betting that his business experience can modernise the world governing body.
  • Read more at straitstimes.

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  • #chess
  • #presidential
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