From: Chiaki Ito <shogi <at> MAIL <dot> COM>
Date: 1 apr 2003
Subject: Re: Kunio Yonenaga Lifetime Kisei

Wow!  Did he win the election because of his chess fame?  Do ordinary people
in Kalmykia know he is a chess player?

Chiaki

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Kaufman" <lkaufman <at> COMCAST <dot> NET>
To: <SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 7:30 AM
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
>