Kings’ chess postponed
NEW DELHI, June 15, 2012
Financial crisis and the unstable political situation in Romania have forced the organisers of the Kings’ chess tournament, featuring five-time World champion Viswanathan Anand, to postpone the premier event.
The event, with Anand, World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen (Norway), Teimour Radjabov (Azerbaijan), Sergey Karjakin (Russia), Vassily Ivanchuk (Ukraine) and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (Romania) in the fray, was scheduled to be held from June 23 to July 4 at Medias.
According to the statement from the event’s Press Chief Dorian Rogozenco, “The organisers will do everything they can in order to hold the tournament later this year. The reason for not holding the tournament now is the financial crisis and very unstable political situation in Romania.”
The Kings tournament is the second Grand Slam tournament to run into trouble. Last year, the event in Linares was cancelled and even this year, there is no sign of any revival of the elite tournament.
Two other Grand Slam events — Pearl Spring tournament in Nanjing (China) and the M-Tel Masters in Sofia (Bulgaria) — have also been taken off the calendar for the time being.
Source: http://www.thehindu.com
Anand is making too much money. They can’t afford him 🙂
Hi Susan Polgar,
oh man,what a great feast in chess had been postponed ! – anyway,let the organizers be financially comfortable to organize the chess tournament,.at the earliest,is all that chess fans across globe wish.
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I think things will continue to dry up as long as we see so-called World Chess Championships that put even die-hard chess fans to sleep and don’t even attempt to make chess marketable or entertaining.
What a BUMMER. Bazna Kings Tournament is a favorite of mine, with Carlsen and Radjabov playing in it for the last few years. And I was so hoping to see Carlsen play Anand this year. Well, maybe we will still get to see it happen.