Sasha, thank you for presenting what you stand for! Chesstalk is not the official medium for CFC AGMs, so doing it again here is appreciated.
If anyone is willing to truly stand up for chess in this country, I think having chess recognized as a sport as your first and only item on the agenda plus fighting to make sure it gets done, is imperative! This solves a lot of troubles CFC confronts itself with for many years. You should model CFC after successful national chess federations and you will find that chess as a sport is an important part of their portofolio; no less than 107 countries consider chess as such!
We have a lot of work to do on our own and there are a lot of qualified people across the country to be successful. I think this should be the focus and not who gets elected as FIDE President. Of course that has its importance too, but not nearly as much.
GK is a brilliant chess mind. However his failure with the Professional Chess Association and its catastrophic effect on FIDE for years raises flags over his ability to run things of that magnitude. Have you considered that from a strictly business point of view?
