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New
Match of the Century
Eugeny Atarov reports that
there was an ITAR-TASS press conference on Tuesday 12th June 2002
attended by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Garry Kasparov, Slava Fetisov
(Russian minister of sport) and Andrey Selivanov (President of
Russian chess federation) to officially announce a new "Match
of Century". The famous match between Soviets and the Rest of
the World was first held in Belgrade 1970 and again in London in
1984. This time it will be Russia on its own. It is to be held in
September 8th-12th 2002 in Moscow over 10 boards using a
Scheveningen System and rapid chess (25+10). The exact composition
of the teams is to be announced but Vladimir Kramnik, Gary Kasparov,
Anatoly Karpov, Alexander Khalifman, Alexander Morozevich, Evgeny
Bareev, Alexander Grischuk, Peter Svidler, Alexey Dreev and probably
either Sergey Rublevsky, Vadim Zvjagintsev or Alexander Motylev. The
opposition will be Vishwanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Vesselin
Topalov, Vassily Ivanchuk, Boris Gelfand, Peter Leko, Aleksei Shirov,
Judit Polgar and Ye Jiangchuan with possibly Ilia Smirin, Vladimir
Akopian, Zurab Azmaiparashvili, Joel Lautier, Rustam Kasimdzhanov,
Nigel Short and Loek van Wely.
3rd
European Individual Championships
The 3rd European
Individual Championships will be held in Batumi, Georgia, June
11th-27th 2002. Emil Sutovsky, Aleksej Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gurevich,
Michal Krasenkov, Smbat Lputian, Andrei Kharlov, Alexander Graf,
Vladimir Baklan, Sergey Volkov and Vadim Milov are the leading
players in the field of 115.
FIDE
Moscow Grand Prix
Photo Eugeny Atarov http://www.joeblack.ru/
The FIDE Moscow Grand Prix took place 1st-6th June 2002. Garry
Kasparov won the event beating teenage wunderkind Teimour Radjabov
in the final.
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