The reality is that business knows how connected FIDE and AGON are to corrupt Russians in Putin's circle. Today from Bloomberg News:
"It didn’t help. The New York tournament, which hoped to attract luxury retailers and financial firms as sponsors, wound up with an odd quartet: a Russian fertilizer company, a Moscow-based asset-management firm, a Norwegian bottled-water company that sponsors Carlsen, and S.T. Dupont, whose stylish pens are being used by the two players to make notes. “People are afraid,” Makropoulos said." As well they should be. As Karpov is quoted as saying,“Any dickhead could do a better job.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-world-chess-championship/
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