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World Title Match At Chennai In 2012
By Arvind aaron
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has accepted to stage
the Anand versus Gelfand World Chess title match either in April
or in May of 2012.
The budget for the event which is Rs.20 Crore will be sponsored
by the Tamil Nadu Government. This followed a meeting FIDE
President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov along with Fide Vice President
D.V.Sundar, AICF PresidentJ.C.D.Prabhakar AICF Secretary Bharat
Singh, AICF treasurer R.M.Dongre had with the Tamil Nadu Chief
Minister at Chennai this morning. (13.07.2011)
At a subsequent meet-the-press, held at the Russian Cultural
Centre in Chennai on July 13, 2011, J.C.D. Prabhakar, President
of the AICF announced the Chennai bid for the world title match
which is likely to go through on July 31, 2011.
When this event happens, this will become the biggest chess
event ever in India in terms of importance as well as prize
money. The two semi-finals were held at Sanghinagar (near
Hyderabad) in February 1995 and the two semi-finals were held in
Delhi in December 2000. The finals has never taken place in
Indian soil.
Viswanathan Anand is a four-time world champion and would be
looking forward to defend and keep his title for a fifth time
next summer.
In a Tamil Nadu Government Press Release No.444 dated July 13,
2011, the Chief Minister J. Jayalalitha had sanctioned the
amount for this title match which has not been staged in India
before.
Tamil Nadu Government Press Release link
http://www.tn.gov.in/seithi_veliyeedu/pr13Jul11/pr130711_444.pdf
In the Tamil Nadu Government photo release, FIDE President
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is in conversation with Chief Minister J.
Jayalalitha. To his right is D.V. Sundar, Vice President of FIDE
and to his left is J.C.D. Prabhakar, President, AICF.
Tamil Nadu Government Photo Release link
http://www.tn.gov.in/seithi_veliyeedu/pressphoto.php?id=2103
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