SPORTS DELEGATIONS COMING FROM 29 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ATTENDED THE OPENING CEREMONY OF BILBAO CHESS 2014 THIS EVENING
Bilbao mayor Ibon Areso chaired the ceremony today and acted as host to all 61 teams
Bilbao, 13 September 2014
Delegations of 61 teams, coming yesterday and today from 29 European countries, attended the Bilbao Chess 2014 opening ceremony this evening. The chess event will start at the Euskalduna Congress Centre tomorrow Sunday and will hold simultaneously the European Club Cup and the Grand Slam Masters Final.
Chairing the ceremony, which was celebrated by the enormous playroom that will hold more than 200 games at the same time, was Bilbao mayor Ibon Areso. Mr Areso wished the contestants good luck and also encouraged them to “make the most of whatever free time you have to enjoy this beautiful city that welcomes you, just as it welcomes all those other great events, past, present and future — sports or not —, which help promote this city all over the world”.
Representing the Provincial Council of Bizkaia was Maitane Leizaola, the Provincial Director of Youth and Sports. During her speech, Ms Leizaola affirmed that she was pleased with the sports level of the delegations and players that will take part in the European Club Cup and the Grand Slam Masters Final. The Bilbao Chess 2014 will turn the city into the epicentre of world chess starting tomorrow until next Saturday, 20 September. 9 of the world’s top 10 chess players, as well as most of the world’s top 50 players, will meet at this event.
The opening ceremony was also attended by the president of the European Chess Union (ECU), Zurab Azmaiparashvili, and the president of the Spanish Chess Federation (FEDA), Javier Ochoa de Echagüen, among others, as well as by the 4 contenders of this year’s Grand Slam Masters Final — Anand, Aronian, Ponomariov and Vallejo.
Both tournaments will start at the extension of the Euskalduna Congress Centre at 15.00 tomorrow. The entrance is free of charge for members of the public who wish to watch the games on site. Both the European Club Cup and the Grand Slam Masters Final will be simultaneously broadcast online on the official sites www.bilbaomastersfinal.com and www.europeanchessclubcup2014.com, as well as on the world’s main chess websites.
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Great city for chess.
This is what the great GM Nakamura is waiting for. Humiliate, dust and pulverize all these top ten pretenders convincingly to prove to the world chess community that he is truly the messiah of chess. Naka will win win this tourney with absolute authority. “MAKE MY DAY” Naka!,,
Nobody can beat Nakamura, the best player in the world, at this Bilbao Tournament. You can take that to the bank. He will surely embarrass all these patzers overwhelmingly. You dont mess up with Naka dude.
Sauron did not show up to avoid Nakamura’s wrath. He will be the only top ten players, who are all easy prey, that will not suffer defeat from Naka.
Go Naka beat EM ALL. HA HA HA HA. All these wannabes will line up and bow to Naka’s brilliancy. So get ready to be dusted by the grat GM.