India must have become quite familiar to Arkady Dvorkovich by now. Since the country hosts major chess events regularly, the FIDE president often flies to the land where the game originated all those centuries ago.

He made the ceremonial opening move of the World Cup at Resort Rio in North Goa over the weekend. Shortly before that, the head of the world chess governing body spoke at length about several topics, including the unfortunate death of Daniel Naroditsky (following which former World champion Vladimir Kramnik came under fire for his comments on cheating targeted against the American Grandmaster), the newly announced Total World chess championship and India’s emergence as a host for major FIDE events.

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This is going to be an exciting tournament. We, at FIDE, are

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