Elections will finally take place at the All India Chess Federation on January 4 as the Electoral Officer Justice (retd) K Kannan announced the date adding that 32 state federations will vote in the process to decide who is going to lead the federation in future. This is to be recalled that the AICF is divided into two factions, one led by BS Chauhan and the other by P.R. Venketrama Raja. Elections in the AICF are significant as this is the first time after 2005 that there will be a contest. In the last 15 years, candidates were chosen unanimously.