I just found this article on a German chess website: https://perlenvombodensee.de/2026/04/09/chessbase-wird-kasachisch-milliardaer-timur-turlov-uebernimmt/ . Turlov is the founder of Freedom Finance which is a major global partner of FIDE and a key sponsor of elite chess tournaments. In this article it is said that Turlov is a potential candidate if Dvorkovich is not re-elected as FIDE president this autumn. But not as an opponent, rather as a placeholder since Turlov also plans to hire someone from the FIDE-Dvorkovich-team as Co-CEO for ChessBase.
I just found this article on a German chess website: https://perlenvombodensee.de/2026/04/09/chessbase-wird-kasachisch-milliardaer-timur-turlov-uebernimmt/ . Turlov is the founder of Freedom Finance which is a major global partner of FIDE and a key sponsor of elite chess tournaments. In this article it is said that Turlov is a potential candidate if Dvorkovich is not re-elected as FIDE president this autumn. But not as an opponent, rather as a placeholder since Turlov also plans to hire someone from the FIDE-Dvorkovich-team as Co-CEO for ChessBase.
