Vishy Anand to run with Timur Turlov as Deputy President in FIDE elections

3 min readJul 26, 2026 08:52 PM IST Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand will run for the FIDE Deputy President role once again. (Express Photo by Partha Paul)Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand, who is currently serving as the Interim President of FIDE, has confirmed that he will run for the Deputy President’s role in the upcoming FIDE elections along with Timur Turlov, who will be running for the top post. Turlov was initially running for the Deputy President’s role in the upcoming elections with Arkady Dvorkovich running for a third term as president. But sanctions from European Union meant that Dvorkovich holding the FIDE chief’s position became untenable. Anand had recently spoken about wanting to not contest for the elections again to spend more time with family.“I simpl