Campomanes dead

Florencio Campomanes, past president of FIDE, the international regulatory body of chess, is dead.

His obits have mentioned that his mismanagement of FIDE lead to the defection of Nigel Short and Kasparov from FIDE in 1993, splitting the world title, which wouldn’t be reunited until 2006.  Disastrous for chess.

Unmentioned in the obits so far is that he was probably an agent of the KGB.