From: Larry Kaufman <lkaufman <at> COMCAST <dot> NET>
Date: 1 apr 2003
Subject: Re: Kunio Yonenaga Lifetime Kisei

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chiaki Ito" <shogi <at> MAIL <dot> COM>
To: <SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 6:40 AM
Subject: Re: Kunio Yonenaga Lifetime Kisei


> has there been any chess player to become a politician?
>
> chiaki
>
     Everyone is overlooking the most obvious example.  Kirsan Ilyumzhimov
was the Junior chess champion of the Russian republic of Kalmykia, and he is
now simultaneously the President of that republic and the President of the
world chess federation (FIDE) !

     Larry Kaufman