Editing FIDE (section)

====Rapid expansion of membership====
During his period as president of FIDE (1970–1978) Max Euwe strove to increase the number of member countries, and [[Florencio Campomanes]] (president 1982–1995) continued this policy, with each member nation receiving one vote. Former world champion Anatoly Karpov later said this was a mixed blessing, as the inclusion of so many small, poor countries led to a "leadership vacuum at the head of the world of chess......"<ref name="Sosonko2001RememberingEuwePart1" /><ref name="AbundoCampomanesLegacy" /> [[Yuri Averbakh]] said the presence of so many weak countries made it easy to manipulate decisions.<ref name="KingstonAverbakhInterview2">{{cite web | url=http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skittles183.pdf |title=Yuri Averbakh: An Interview with History – Part 2 | author=Kingston, T. | year=2002 | publisher=ChessCafe | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040330072504/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/skittles183.pdf | archive-date=March 30, 2004 | url-status=live }}</ref>