Topalov To Be Honorary Guest at Khanty-Mansiysk Chess Olympiad
Bulgaria’s GM Veselin Topalov will be among the honorary guests at the opening of the Khanty-Mansiysk Chess Olympiad on September 19. Topalov has been invited along with world champion Vishy Anand and the Norwegian chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is also expected to attend the opening ceremony. Topalov will participate in the Olympiad, while new heads of the European and the world chess will be elected at the following FIDE congress.
Maria Dimitrova
Source: http://paper.standartnews.com
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Why not invite all of Bobby Fischer’s exwives and children too?
Will not be enough drama with the FIDE elections?
The news is “Anand and Calsen to be be honorary guests”
mateintwenty, you are right
Topalov is a great player with a great style and will keep proving it.
What about this?
http://letters.chessdom.com/topalov-candidate-matches
I don’t understand: Topalov is ready to play the Chess Olympics in Russia, but he doesn’t want to play the Candidates Matches in Russia? Why?