Grandmasters meet in Tigran Petrosyan memorial match
ITAR-TASS News Agency
June 10, 2004 Thursday 2:11 AM Eastern Time
DATELINE: MOSCOW, June 10
A number of the finest chess grandmasters begin a chess match here on
Thursday in memory of Tigran Petrosyan, an outstanding chess player,
international grandmaster and the 9-th World Champion.
The match between the Petrosyan team and the rest-of-the world one
is held under the auspices of the World Chess Federation, which
officially designated the year 2004 as the Year of Tigran Petrosyan.
The match is to be played in the Khachaturyan Hall of the newly-built
Ararat Park Hayatt Moscow Hotel on Neglinnaya Street.
Ex-champion of the world Garry Kasparov of Russia, Peter Leko of
Hungary, Boris Gelfand of Israel (he previously played for Belarus),
Vladimir Akopyan, Rafael Vaganyan, and Smbat Lputyan of Armenia will
play for the Tigran Petrosyan team while Vishwanath Anand of India,
Michael Adams of Britain, Pyotr Svidler of Russia, Etienne Bacrot of
France, Francisco Vallejo of Spain, and Loek van Wely of Holland will
play for the rest-of-the-world team.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
