Beyond the ballot: Timur Turlov sets out a management case for leading world chess

When Timur Turlov first entered the 2026 FIDE election, the contest was easy to frame as a change at the top of world chess. His more consequential argument, however, concerns what should change beneath it: how the international federation serves its members, distributes opportunity and measures whether its programmes work. The 38-year-old founder and CEO […]