How does Karpov compete with someone in contact with aliens? Game over.
Will FIDE Split?
Ilyumzhinov is crazy, but a split would hurt chess I think. Ilyumzhinov needs to disappear, maybe aliens will take him into space as an intergalactic chess tutor.
Now that Karpov lost and his campaign site continues to make accusations of corruptions will we see the creation of an alternate Chess Federation? Was this perhaps the plan all along, using disputed elections to give momentum to a new Federation?