Europe-echecs.com
The site underlines that “During lots of years he was a talented journalist who worked in a sports section of “Tribune de Geneve” newspaper. Those who took part in the festival for many years had admired his organization skills and looked upon him as a “Soul of the festival”. This was a man of dignity, who has never tried to cut the distance between sportsmen and him and who never broke the privacy of those with whom he worked. He was a man of honor who tried to use only facts and never relied on gossips, personal opinions and assumptions”.