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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Chess grandmaster Levon Aronian said on Friday he was leaving Armenia and would represent the United States, citing what he said was Armenian officials’ indifference to chess as one of the reasons.
The 38-year-old, who is ranked sixth in the world, announced his decision on his Facebook page.
“The past year has been very difficult for all of us with a pandemic, a war and in my case there was personal adversity and the state’s absolute indifference towards Armenian chess,” he wrote, referring to six weeks of fighting between ethnic Armenian and Azeri forces over the Nagorno-Karabkah enclave.
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MOSCOW, March 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Arkady Dvorkovich, President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), presented Andrey Guryev, Vice-President of the Russian Chess Federation, with a gold medal for the significant contribution he has made to the development of the chess movement in Russia and abroad. The award marked the Russian National Team s victory in FIDE s first ever online chess olympiad.
The FIDE Online Olympiad held last summer was the largest tournament consisting of national teams ever held in a pandemic. It was a truly global competition, with 163 teams and over 1,500 chess players taking part.
Presenting the medal,
FIDE President and Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Arkady Dvorkovich, said that PhosAgro s support as a permanent general partner of the Chess Federation of Russia helped the Russian national team to put on an excellent game and secure a well-deserved victory.
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There are only a few chess tournaments in the world that are famous for having been organized for a very long time without interruption. Hastings (1895) and the Moscow Tournament are probably the most famous. The Moscow City Chess Championship was first played in 1899. Among the winners we find the names of Alekhine, Smyslov, Botvinnik, Bronstein, Averbakh, Petrosian and, more recently, Morozevich. Over the years it has changed formats and names, but it still is an important yearly event played in Moscow.
This year’s edition, which took place from February 19 until March 1, did not include famous figures in the lineup. With so many opportunities bestowed upon the elite players, it is understandable that they bypass tournaments that live on ‘old glory’. Neither were there many foreign players as in previous years. The current Covid-19 crisis naturally contributed to the absence of foreigners, so this ye
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