Though he never won fame as a player, [Kirsan] Ilyumzhinov’s devotion to chess seems genuine — but so are his eccentricities. He has said that he believes the game was invented by extraterrestrials, and he claims to have been abducted by aliens in yellow spacesuits on the night of Sept. 17, 1997. He built Chess City, a huge glass dome surrounded by a housing development, in Kalmykia’s obscure and inaccessible capital, Elista, and had the [World Chess Federation] hold championship tournaments there.
Garry Kasparov wants to lead the World Chess Federation. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is the man who currently leads it. The New York Times lets us know the important stuff.
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