Nona Gaprindashvili: Politics might not affect Russia and Georgia people’s friendship
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
In Nalchik, at the “Sindika” hotel, within the framework of the Fourth FIDE Grand Prix tournament there was held a press-conference given by Nona Gaprindashvili, a world-renowned legendary Georgean chessplayer, a five-time world champion, the first woman in chess history to be awarded the Men’s International Grandmaster title. The press conference was participated by the federal, regional and local mass media.
The world-famous chessplayer who had been President of the National Olympic Committee of Georgia informed all those present on her former presidential activity.
At
the Musical theatre of Nalchik there was held a ceremonial opening of
the Fourth FIDE Grand Prix chess tournament. The ceremony was
participated by KBR President Arsen Kanokov and FIDE President, the
Head of the Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov.
In his greeting message Kirsan Ilyumzhinov emphasized that the
tournament has a rating of 2725 points, being the highest among all
the tournaments in this series.
Kanokov, Ilyumzhinov and Zhukov directed greetings to participants of the tournament
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
The salutatory messages to participants and guests of the fourth stage
FIDE Grand Prix in Nalchik were directed by the President of
Kabardino-Balkarian Republic Arsen Kanokov President FIDE, the Head of
Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and the President of the Russian chess
federation, the vice-premier of the Government of the Russian
Federation Alexander Zhukov. Read more.
The fourth FIDE Grand Prix is going to be the strongest tournament of the series
Monday, 23 March 2009
14
top-grandmasters will take part in the fourth FIDE Grand Prix series tournament
in the Republic of Kabardino Balkaria in Russia.
The fourth
FIDE Grand Prix will be the strongest one in the series, and one of the
strongest tournaments of the world this year. New functions on the FIDE website
allow us to see the current rating changes of top-grandmasters. The average
rating of the tournament in Nalchik will be around 2725 points based on the
April 2009 list to be published soon. Previously the highest average rated
tournament was held in the third stage of the series, Elista (2715 points).
The
tournament is so evenly balanced that everyone of the 14 participants who comes
to Nalchik is in a good position to win the tournament. The top-rated player of
the competition is the World Cup 2005 and Olympiad winner Levon Aronian (Armenia).
Two players
have also shown excellent results this year: Alexander Grischuk (Russia) - the
winner of Linares and Elista super tournaments, and Sergey Karjakin (Ukraine),
who has won the Corus tournament in January in Wijk-an-Zee.
World Cup
2007 winner Gata Kamsky (USA) this year has shown also a good performance during
the Challenge match against Veselin Topalov.
The FIDE
Grand Prix is a series of six tournaments held over two years (2008-2009) in
leading world cities. It has given a number of young players such as Wang Yue
and Vugar Gashimov, the opportunity to come to the forefront of the chess
world. The winner of the Grand Prix
series will play in 2011 in the Candidate event of the World Championship
Cycle.
In Nalchik, at the “Sindika” hotel, within the framework of the Fourth FIDE Grand Prix tournament there was held a press-conference given by Nona Gaprindashvili, a world-renowned legendary Georgean chessplayer, a five-time world champion, the first woman in chess history to be awarded the Men’s International Grandmaster title. The press conference was participated by the federal, regional and local mass media.
At
the Musical theatre of Nalchik there was held a ceremonial opening of
the Fourth FIDE Grand Prix chess tournament. The ceremony was
participated by KBR President Arsen Kanokov and FIDE President, the
Head of the Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. 
