To mark the historic visit of FIDE President His Excellency Kirsan Ilyumzhinov to London last week, we invite readers to offer captions to these excellent photos we’ve appropriated without permission from FIDE’s website.

Winners will receive the following prizes:

1. A trip to Mars to meet the President’s friends
2. A trip to Syria to meet the President’s friends
3. Tea with Vladimir Putin (Geiger counter provided)
4. Lunch at Simpson’s with ‘Sir’ Raymond Keene (at winner’s expense)
5. The collected works of Eric Schiller (signed by the author)

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See FIDE’s website for more details.