May 28,.2013
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has become the President of the International Mind Sports Association (IMSA)

May 28 in St. Petersburg within an international convention SportAccord the General Assembly of the International Mind Sports Association (IMSA) was hold, in which was unanimously elected the new president of the IMSA. FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov became the head of the Association. Among the first who sincerely congratulated Kirsan Nikolayevich, was an advisor of FIDE President Oleg Savchuk.

In his first speech as the president of the IMSA Kirsan Ilyumzhinov expressed his gratitude to all the members of the Association for trust and shared his plans concerning the further development of the IMSA.

In 2005 the IMSA was founded by four federations developing intellectual sports: International Chess Federation, the World Bridge Federation, the International Draughts Federation and the International Go Federation (total number of professionals - more than 500 million people), a member of the IMSA, without the right to vote is the World Xiangqi Federation (Chinese chess).

From left to right: Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (President of FIDE and IMSA),
Harry Otten (President of the World Draughts Federation),
Oleg Savchuk (Advisor of FIDE President)

From left to right: Oleg Savchuk (Advisor of FIDE President),
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (President of FIDE and IMSA),
Oleg Klimenko (former Deputy Chairman of the Government
of the Republic of Kalmykia)

After having been elected as IMSA President