The head of the International chess Federation Kirsan Ilyumzhinov

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MOSCOW, February 3. /TASS./ The head of the International chess Federation (FIDE) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov withdrew his candidacy from the elections of the President of the Russian chess Federation (RCF). About it the correspondent of TASS from the event.

Elections of the head of the organization held Saturday in Moscow .

Besides the incumbent President of the Russian chess Federation Andrey Filatov, the head of the organization expect the champion of the USSR on jumps on skis from a springboard Eduard Suboch, member of the Supervisory Board of the Russian chess Federation from Ingushetia Zaurbek Malsagov, leading researcher of the Institute of Economics Ivan Starikov, President of the chess Federation of Rostov and Moscow regions Sergey Nesterov.

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