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by V-2 2785 days ago
How strong a player is Mr. Dvorkovich though? While he did become the president of FIDE, he doesn't seem to even have a rating: https://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=34404449
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I don't know, but if the standard of comparison is Napoleon he doesn't need to be particularly good. There's even a bad opening named after him because he was known to be a mediocre player.
Right; although to be fair to Napoleon, back in his era chess was generally on a much lower level compared to nowadays.