Armenia will host World Chess Academy – FIDE President

Armenia will host World Chess Academy – FIDE President

January 19

By Vera Martirosyan

TSAKHKADZOR. – At present, investors from Moscow are meeting with
Armenian capital city Yerevan mayor and we will launch, here this
spring, construction of the World Chess Academy, World Chess
Federation (FIDE) President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov stated in Armenia’s
City of Tsakhkadzor, where session of the FIDE Presidential Board is
convened, NEWS.am Sport reporter informed.

`I first came to Armenia in the 1980s, and second time, in 1996; it
was my first [World Chess] Olympiad as FIDE President. It was a
difficult period here at the time; there were tanks in the city, but
we were playing chess.

[But] seventeen years later, [and] aside for the fact that you have
[achieved] great progress in chess, everyone says how great changes
have taken place in your country. It is not a coincidence that you won
the Olympiad gold three times in the past six years; this was normal.
I see that, owing to your president, [and] aside from chess, you have
[achieved] progress in all other domains, too.

Businessmen likewise came [to Armenia] with us, [and] they are
discussing industrial and investment projects here. The investors that
came with us have brought along a $100-million offer,’ Kirsan
Ilyumzhinov said in particular.

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