Evgeny Bareev goes into chess politics. The Russian grandmaster is mentioned as 'Vice President' on Ali Nihat Yazici's ticket for the upcoming presidential elections of the European Chess Union. The other nominations, now officially received by ECU, are those of Silvio Danailov and Robert von Weizsäcker, who has three GMs on his side.

During the Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, the new President of the European Chess Union (ECU) will be elected. The exact moment of this election has not been decided yet, but it will certainly take place after the elections of the FIDE Presidential ticket. In its montly Circular Letter, sent to all European federations, associated members, board members, FIDE and FIDE Zone Presidents, the European Chess Union yesterday made public the names of the nominations:

Ticket of Silvio Danailov
President Silvio Danailov, Bulgaria
Deputy President Tomasz Sielicki, Poland
Vice President Ion-Serban Dobronauteanu, Romania
Secretary General Sava Stoisavljevic, Serbia
Treasurer Almog Burstein, Israel

Ticket of Robert von Weizsäcker
President Robert von Weizsäcker, Germany
Deputy President Nigel Short, England
Vice President Ivan Sokolov, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Secretary General Johann Hjartarson, Iceland
Treasurer Yuri Kaplun, Ukraine

Ticket of Ali Nihat Yazici
President Ali Nihat Yazici, Turkey
Deputy President Peter Rajcsanyi, Hungary
Vice President Evgeny Bareev, Russia
Secretary General Geoffrey Borg, Malta
Treasurer Joan Antoni Obregon, Andorra

The names of the Danailov and Von Weizsäcker tickets were already known. The most interesting name on the Yazici ticket is that of Russian grandmaster Evgeny Bareev, who follows the example of Short, Sokolov and Hjartarson. And there's another familiar name: that of FIDE Commercial Director Geoffrey Borg, who was responsible for the FIDE Grand Prix Series.