Iran’s chess grandmaster to compete with world’s ex-champion
Service: Sport 1387/11/05 01-24-2009 15:05:05
ISNA – Tehran Service: Sport
TEHRAN, Jan. 24 (ISNA)-Iranian chess grandmaster Ehsan Ghaem Maghami and the world’s former Russian chess champion Anatoli Karpov will compete during 7 days in 20 matches in Tehran.
The competition is to be held by Iran’s Chess Federation from January 27th to February 3rd.
The Iranian chess grandmaster born in 11 August 1982 and has won many Iranian and international Chess Championships.
Source: http://www.isna.ir
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Sadly, Maghami is one of those, who for personal bigotry or Iranian political pressure, refuses to play Israelis in chess.
http://www.iranian.ws/cgi-bin/iran_news/exec/view.cgi/2/3919