Dear friends!

Following the lunar calendar on February 10, 2013, we celebrate the start of the Lunar New Year. On Lunar New Year's Eve, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of you a successful and prosperous year. Let your bad days and failures be left behind in the old year and the upcoming new year be filled with joy, love, peace and more victories! Welcome and enjoy the Year of the Snake!

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
FIDE President