Dear
viewer,
Gens una sumus:
Gens......Family, Race, or People
una........one
sumus....we are
These are Latin for "We are One
Family, or We are One Race, or We are One People."
Federation Internationale
Des Echecs, known as FIDE
from its French acronym,
is the World Chess Federation. FIDE was founded in Paris,
France on July 20, 1924 and adopted the phrase "Gens
una Sumus" as its motto.
FIDE has a membership of 161 countries
and the current
President is Mr. Kirsan Nikolayevich Ilyumzhinov since
1995 who is also President of Kalmykia, an autonomous Republic in Russia.
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