The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated

It looks like Dr. Strangelove’s war room. Pictured above is the screenshot from the FIDE web site. There we read, “Kirsan Ilyumzhinov announced his resignation as FIDE President”. The news itself is quite astonishing, but even more amazing is the official statement of the “resigning” President:

“I don’t know from where the news came”, Ilyumzhinov told Oleg Bogatov of R-Sport.ru. “It seems like a joke, or maybe it is only one’s wish”. Photo: RIA Novosti/Vladimir Fedorenko.