Florencio Campomanes

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Florencio Campomanes (2008)

Florencio Basa Campomanes (born February 22, 1927 in Manila , † May 3, 2010 in Baguio City ) was a Filipino chess player and functionary .

Campomanes, who studied political science (graduated from Georgetown University in 1954), became national chess champion in 1950 and played with the Philippines at the Chess Olympiads in 1956 , 1958 , 1960 , 1964 and 1966 . He reached his best historical rating of 2408 in December 1964.

Later he became a functionary, first in the Philippine Chess Federation, then in the World Chess Federation FIDE . In 1982 he was the first non-European to be elected President and held this office until 1995. At the 66th FIDE Congress in Paris in November 1995, he was accused of financial irregularities and voted out of office. He was succeeded by Kirsan Ilyumschinov , President of the Russian Autonomous Republic of Kalmykia .

During his term of office, the controversial termination of the first competition for the 1984 World Chess Championship between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov on February 15, 1985, as well as differences with the Grandmaster Association and in 1993 the spin-off of the Professional Chess Association (PCA) initiated by Kasparov and Nigel Short fell the FIDE.

Private

1990/91 Campomanes drew in a car accident in Uganda a serious whiplash and had to for a while a neck seal wear. In the accident, the president of the Chess Federation of Uganda, Paul Bitarabeho , who drove the car , was killed.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RP's First FIDE President Campomanes dies at 83 gmanews.tv, May 3, 2010, accessed May 3, 2010.
  2. ↑ Florencio Campomanes dies at eighty-three ChessBase.com, accessed May 10, 2010.
  3. ↑ Florencio Campomanes' results at the Chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  4. ^ Alfred Diel , in: Schach-Report , No. 4/1991, p. 51.
personal data
SURNAME Campomanes, Florencio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Campomanes, Florencio Basa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino chess player and official
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Manila
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 2010
Place of death Baguio City