CHESS: ARONIAN NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE WORLD CHAMPION QUALIFIERS’ MATCHES IN BAKU

Panorama.am
13:51 29/04/2010

Sport

Commenting on the FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov’s interview to
"Sport-Express" newspaper (April 28, 2010), GM Levon Aronian has
announced that he has never agreed and will never agree to play the
World Chess Champion’s qualifiers’ matches in Baku.

The Armenian Chess Federation has sent an official letter to Mr.

Ilyumzhinov, FIDE Presidential Board members, Sport-Express newspaper
and other famous chess periodicals over this, Armenian Chess Federation
reported.