his candidacy as FIDE President. As FIDE President, Campomanes was accused of helping Karpov retain the world title at all costs. "At the same time USSR Chess Federation President, Vitaly Sevastianov turned to Campomanes. With the signature of deputy chairman of the KGB Philipp Bobkov a proposal was finally sent to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to terminate the match and start again with a 0-0 score. The intention was to avoid the impression that the decision favoured Karpov. But mainly people did not want to displease Kasparov's powerful patron Gaidar Alijev. The Central Committee supported the proposal of the KGB and Campomanes terminated the match." More commonly known is the quote following the press conference which terminated the match, overheard by ESPN microphones, reported in Chess Life by witness Maxim Dlugy and Sports Illustrated: "But Anatoly, I told them just what you said". Charges of fraud On 5 February 2003, the Philippine anti-graft court Sandiganbayan convicted Campomanes for failure to account for the Philippine Sports Commission (PSC) government funds amounting to PhP12.876 million (or US$238,746 at an exchange rate of PhP53.932 = $1). The PSC entrusted these funds to the FIDE for the World Chess Olympiad in Manila, hosted by the Philippine government from 6 to 25 June 1992. Subsequently, Florencio Campomanes was sentenced to one year and 10 months imprisonment, later reduced to a PhP6000 fine in December 2006. The charges against Campomanes were overturned based upon a technicality. There was never any resolution as to the disposition of the 12.876 million pesos mentioned above. The rationale for the reversal was that the Supreme Court of the Philippines decided that Campomanes was not a government official to whom the anti-graft laws applied. Thus as a non-government official, Campomanes had no duty under the law to render an accounting of the missing funds. Injury and death In early February 2007, Florencio Campomanes suffered injuries from a car accident in Antalya, Turkey which resulted in time in an intensive care unit. On 3 May 2010, Campomanes died in the Philippines. Curriculum vitae of Florencio B. Campomanes M. A., Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 1951 Doctoral Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1949–1952 Fulbright Grantee, 1948 Lecturer, (Political Science) University of the Philippines, 1954–1956 Founding Member, U.P. Beta Sigma Fraternity, 1946 Chess columnist, Manila Times and Manila Chronicle, 1954–1961 TV producer – Host, Chess Today, GTV/MBS-4