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14:30 30/09/2010

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov re-elected head of FIDE

The controversial Kremlin-backed supremo of world chess who has claimed to have met aliens won a new term on Wednesday after seeing off a challenge from former world champion Anatoly Karpov.

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, was overwhelmingly re-elected head of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) after a fierce power struggle with Karpov marked by bitter personal accusations and allegations of election violations.

Ilyumzhinov won 95 votes from delegates representing national chess federations at the body's congress in the Russian Urals city of Khanty-Mansiysk, while Karpov could only muster 55, a statement on the website of the World Chess Olympiad said.

It’s reported that Ilyumzhinov suggested Karpov the office of FIDE Vice President but the latter still thinks over the suggestion.

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