Gadhafi Plays Chess With Ilyumzhinov

Ilyumzhinov chose black for his match at Gadhafi’s residence in Tripoli. Moscow’s efforts to mediate in Libya’s civil war took a bizarre turn over the weekend when FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov showed up in Tripoli to take on Moammar Gadhafi for a chess party. Ilyumzhinov said Monday that the embattled Libyan leader told him that […]