Bengaluru, July 25 -- Following a quick turn of events, five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand seems poised to run for FIDE deputy president for a second time. Late on Thursday, Anand stepped in to take on the duties of interim president of the international chess federation (FIDE) after its Russian head Arkady Dvorkovich was placed on the latest European Union sanctions list. Dvorkovich was seeking a third term in office, with Kazakh billionaire Timur Turlov as his running mate for deputy president.htc

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