September 24, 2012 – 18:27 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net
– Armenia filed an application to host World Chess Team Championship 2015, RA Chess Academy representative told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
According to FIDE official website, the world championship is scheduled for January 5-20. It’s noteworthy that Armenian men’s team won the World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey, on September 9 to become champions for the third time.
Yerevan also organizes European Individual Chess Championship, due in 2014.
Source: http://www.panarmenian.net
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Armenia is best.
Mr. Aronian is rather close to the No. 1 spot, and, while he fully deserves that distinction – in my opinion, he may deserve that distinction at the present time, though numbers don’t lie, they just bend the truth, and we therefore we have a No. 1 player who, while drawing attention to Chess in a way not seen since Fischer (decide upon which antics drew this attention amongst yourselves – if you are so inclined to engaging in discussion regarding topics long ago buried). For a player to have a New Yorker Magazine ‘Profile’ that is based solely on his Chess FIDE standing, his good looks, and his gangster wit, is astonishing indeed, as Fischer himself had no such ‘Profile,’ just a weekly update by The living Gentleman of Letters himself, George Steiner (a personal and perennial favorite of my favorite friend and of myself) – (Yes, Kasparov had such a ‘Profile,’ though it had little to do with Chess, and much to do with Russian Political Thought. That the ‘Profile’ took the form it did should surprise no one who knows a thing about David Remnick’s background.)
Perhaps the intellectual weight of Dr. Steiner’s regular work on Fischer at The New Yorker Magazine benefits from nostalgia, though, nonetheless, it benefits.
I suppose that I would like to hear some thoughts from fellow readers of Grandmaster Polgar’s site as to their opinion regarding whether (and exactly how so) Chess benefits – as a whole – from having a figure that seems to have captured the attention (minus, I feel, the imagination) of the world. Does such attention – all together deserving, no doubt – help the sport, or is it a form of deflection from it?