Kirsan gives thumbs-up to Guernsey for 2015 and the Small Nations (pictured here with Fred Hamperl the Small Nations Tournament Organiser) |
Fiona Naftel manager of Les Cotils with Kirsan. On Sunday 15 June 2014 (Father's Day!) FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov visited Guernsey to see Small Nations 2015 venue. |
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov stood in the little chapel in the same spot that Max Euwe and Boris Spassky did many years before. |
Fred and Kirsan play a game of blitz (he sacrifices a piece for a perpetual check draw in the Kalashnikov) |
Kirsan and Fred in the grounds of Les Cotils. |