"Chess principles in corporate strategy" - Timur Turlov

📅 Jan 22, 2025 FIDE chess 12 MIN 867 VIEWS 22 SEGMENTS · 2 SPEAKERS

Timur Turlov, CEO of Freedom Holding Corp and the event’s sponsor spoke about how his company applies chess principles to their operations. Turlov noted the importance of building trust between clients: “Trust is the cornerstone of any system, much like the king in chess. Without trust, everything else collapses,” he explained. Turlov elaborated on how chess-style data-analysis and secure information sharing fosters loyalty and trust, serving as the foundation for his company’s client solutions.

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Our first speaker, Timur Turlov. Timur is the president of the Kazakh Chess Federation, president of the International School Chess Federation, and of course CEO of Freedom Holding Corp. And we all thank them for sponsoring this wonderful event as well as the FIDE World Rapid and Blitz. Please put your hands together for Timur Turlov.

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Key Quotes (2)

“We positioning Freedom ecosystem as a board, how Freedom ecosystem can coordinate very different pieces who can efficiently work all together. And when we started to build our ecosystem we realized that actually the true power of data, and that's how pieces working all together in modern digital ecosystems is like coordinated pieces actually in chess. Each piece has unique capabilities, in ecosyst”

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“King of the ecosystem is definitely trust. If you trust as a king, to the king of in chess essential for winning, essential for surviving. If we lost the trust of our customers so everything will collapse. And by the way all the rest of the pieces should help us to build this trust and make this trust even more efficient. We need to build safe information exchange, and so actually we trying to bui”

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About Timur Turlov

Timur Turlov, CEO of Freedom Holding and president of the Kazakhstan Chess Federation, was elected President of FIDE in September 2026. In the lead-up to the election, he outlined a platform focused on financial sustainability, grassroots development, and digitalization. He proposed a development fund to support smaller federations through open tournaments, travel subsidies, and coaching access, and emphasized the importance of media development to make chess more commercially viable. Turlov also stated his intention to rely on Viswanathan Anand for expertise in sport-related policy and to provide a financial backstop from his corporation to enable a two-year event calendar. During the campaign, Turlov discussed his personal history with chess, noting that his grandfather taught him the game at age five and that he returned to it when his children began learning. He described chess as a tool for understanding his own decision-making processes and said he plays with his children on weekends. In interviews, he addressed geopolitical topics, stating he was proud to be a citizen of Kazakhstan and that he had renounced his Russian citizenship and disposed of business operations in Russia following the start of the war in Ukraine. He also called for the war to end as soon as possible and said his role at FIDE would be to unite the chess community.

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