delegates england: Russia's Arkady Dvorkovich, who comes to Fide fresh from his success as chief organiser for the Fifa World Cup, reckons he is sure of more than 90 delegates, according to The Guardian. England's Nigel Short, standing as an anti-corruption candidate, has not stated a total but is believed to have 30-35 in his camp. The issues were discussed in this column on 15 June and in Andrew Roth's article on 2 September but who will win Who will be king Three-way battle for control rocks international chess Read more A basic difficulty for election pundits is that Greece's Georgios Makropoulos, the establishment candidate and current Fide deputy president, claims to have 114 votes in the bag. Although some chess federations may have pledged twice, there is still clearly creative arithmetic by at least one frontrunner. The hostility between Short and Makropoulos seems mutual and deep. Such a murky situation has naturally led to thoughts of alliances and pacts.
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