President Ilham Aliyev receives Azerbaijani national team – winner of European chess championship
03 Nov 2009 19:57
Baku – APA. On November 3, President Ilham Aliyev received the members of Azerbaijani national team – winners of the European chess championship in Serbia. The head of state congratulated the chess players on great and historic victory, APA reports. “Our chess players are very talented and showing good results in the international tournaments and competitions and take high steps in FIDE rating list. But for the first time our players won the team contest. This is great victory and great happiness. You know that the strongest chess teams are in Europe. The first place in Europe is a first place in the world. This is great success indeed. I congratulate you on these good events and victories”.
The head of state said this victory showed opportunities and intellectual potential of the Azerbaijani people once again and confirmed the successes in the sphere of sport. “The intellectual potential plays important role in sport. But chess is such sport that based only on the intellectual struggle. We are happy for such great performances and high achievements of our chess players. It shows that Azerbaijan’s sport and intellectual potential is in very high level”.
Source: http://en.apa.az
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