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Thursday, June 12, 2014

World Chess Championship 2014 in Sochi, Announces FIDE

Hello chess friends, here's the World Chess Championship 2014 Magnus Carlsen vs Viswanathan Anand update via FIDE. At the press conference given to the INTERFAX news agency the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov announced that the World Chess Championship Match between the current World Champion Magnus Carlsen (Norway) and the Challenger Viswanathan Anand (India) will be held in Sochi. “For the first time Sochi will host the World Chess Championship Match from 7th November to 28th November of this year on the territory of the Olympic village. The budget of the Match is $3,000,000,” said Ilyumzhinov.




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