Kirsan Ilyumzhinov: “You know, as FIDE President, back in 1996 I was invited to attend the meeting of the Communist Party of China Central Committee. It dealt with the country’s integration into the world community, the entry into the WTO. And the Chinese were already planning to make a breakthrough in many areas, including chess. I remember the commission has allocated 50 million dollars on the
Rogoff said an understanding of chess had helped him learn economics: “The whole logic of game theory, which is a big part of economics, came easily to me.”
Knowing chess also helped him in his career, he said. “I was the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund from 2001 to 2003, and you are involved in a lot of high-stakes negotiations,” he said, “and chess teaches you to think about
Greg has the three essential qualities in a Leader: he’s scrupulously honest, highly competant and doesn’t piss people off. He’s got lots of experience in creative chess organization/ management: the New York Masters, the US Chess League, the US Chess School.
He knows everyone in the chess world and has no enemies. Total strangers buy him chocolate…Read more on Elizabeth Vicary Blog
MORE than 7m people a day watched Liverpool over the internet during the 4th European Open Championships held in the city. The tournament at the city’s World Museum attracted record internet viewing figures, with 65m web visits for the whole tournament.
Website hits smashed the old record of 5m a day, recording a 250% increase on last year. Professor David Robertson, principal organiser, said: “
Like Kournikova, the 24-year-old Kosteniuk, a Russian grandmaster, has traded on her looks, modeling for magazines like the European editions of Vogue and Marie Claire, and selling bikini-clad images of herself through her Web site. Kosteniuk, however, bristles at comparisons with Kournikova. “I think I’ve won enough chess competitions not to be compared to her,” Kosteniuk said in a telephone
Georgios Makropoulos, FIDE Deputy President, revealed in an interview that chess governing body is actively working on finding six cities to host Women’s Grand Prix, starting from next spring.
It is already confirmed that Istanbul will host the first phase on March 2009. Krasnoturinsk and Nalchik are close to joining as well. The Women Grand Prix will follow the successful formula of men’s cycle
Generally, with regard to this competition, many features can be dubbed as “first-time”. For the first time super-tournaments merged into the series. For the first time a the new scoring system was applied. But here the organizers did not invent anything radical and instead introduced football system: 3 points for a win and 1 point for a draw. I must say that the course of the competition was not
