Press release
Official site of the world chess title match launched
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to inform you that the
official site of the world chess title match has opened. The site gathers
and systematizes all the vital information on the forthcoming duel.
Visitors to the site will find out the match schedule and rules. The Players’
Introduction section carries detailed biographies of Viswanathan Anand and Boris
Gelfand. For those who are interested in chess statistics and history, the tournament
and match records of the champion and the challenger and the results of all
their previous head-to-head games are presented.
A separate section is devoted to the venue of the match, the State Tretyakov
Gallery, which is the world’s biggest collection of Russian art. You will
also find interviews with leading world chess players, giving their forecasts
for the match and reflecting on the prospects for synergy between chess and
the world museums.
The Greetings section features messages by FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov,
Chairman of the RCF Supervisory Board Arkady Dvorkovich, General Director of
the State Tretyakov Gallery Irina Lebedeva and match sponsor Andrei Filatov,
a shareholder in the N-Trans Group.
Journalists will find on the site all the information they might need about
accreditation and references to materials published in leading Russian and world
media.
The site is only just beginning its work. It will be regularly updated by
the addition of several new sections and a host of topical materials.
The World chess championship match between the reigning champion Viswanathan
Anand (India, 2799) and the challenger Boris Gelfand (Israel, 2739) will take
place on 10-31 May 2012. The duel promises to be a highlight of Moscow’s
sports and cultural life in 2012. For the first time in chess history, the world
championship match will be held at a museum.
Mark Glukhovsky, Press attaché
World chess title match
Russian Chess Federation
e-mail: m.glukhovsky@gmail.com
tel. +7 (915) 412 77 09 |
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World Chess Championsip 2012 – the sponsors
The sponsors of the event
are:
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the special State Design Bureau Almaz-Antei,
one of the most successful major defense industry enterprises in Russia,
developing anti-aircraft missiles and bringing together leading designers
specializing in air defense complexes for the Air Force, Navy and Army,
as well as automated control systems and anti-ballistic missile defense;
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the NVision Group,
a leading developer of unique information and communication solutions and
services, which in the past year has implemented more than 2,000 high-tech
projects of significance for the country, including work for Rostelecom,
Sberbank of Russia, Rosatom, Russian Railways, VTB Bank, Domodedovo airport
and Moscow City Government.
- the initiator and main sponsor Andrey
Filatov, a billionaire chess enthusiast who co-owns railway and
port operator, N-Trans group, and is a good friend of Boris Gelfand.
Andrey Filatov was born in 1971 in Krivoy Rog, Ukraine. He is a USSR Candidate
Master of Sport in chess. In 1993, he received a sports teaching and chess coaching
degree from the Academy of Physical Education and Sport of the Republic of Belarus.
In April 1996, jointly with his partners Andrey Filatov founded Severstaltrans
(now the N-Trans Group of Companies). Today, N-Trans is Russia's largest privately
owned group that provides services in transportation and infrastructure, including
rail freight transportation and port asset management. He is a member of the
Economic Council of the Franco-Russian Chamber of Commerce (CCIFR). Forbes puts
his net worth at US $1.3 billion and lists him as the 960th richest person in
the world.
Recently Andrey Filatov financed the restoration of the tombstone and monument
to the legendary Russian-born chess player Alexander Alekhine in Paris. He provides
financial support for children’s and young people’s sports school
No. 9 in Dnepropetrovsk. He founded the Sinitsin Memorial international children’s
chess festival, which has taken place in Dnepropetrovsk since 2001, in memory
of his teacher, the chess teacher Alexander Valerianovich Sinitsin. The tournament
plays a notable role in the chess life of Ukraine.
World Chess Championsip 2012 in the Tretyakov Gallery
The establishment date of the Tretyakov Gallery is generally considered to
be the year 1856. It was then that Moscow's noted art collector, merchant and
industrialist Pavel Tretyakov (1832-1898) acquired his first paintings by contemporary
Russian artists and set himself the goal of forming a collection that could
develop into a museum of national art in the future. No such museum existed
in Russia at that time. The overwhelming majority of paintings by Russian artists
was dispersed among numerous private collections; a few – the most famous
and officially acceptable – found their way into the Imperial Hermitage
and the museum of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.
Tretyakov State Gallery – use your mouse to explore the location or click
for a larger map
Today the State Tretyakov Gallery is the national treasury of Russian fine
art and one of the greatest museums in the world. It is located in one of the
oldest directs of Moscow Zamoskvorechye, not far from the Kremlin. The Gallery's
collection consists entirely of Russian art and artists who have made a contribution
to the history of Russian art or been closely connected with it. The collection
contains more than 150,000 works of painting, sculpture and graphics, created
throughout the centuries by successive generations of Russian artists. Russian
art works, ranging in date from the 11th to the early 20th century, are on the
show in Gallery's historic building on Lavrushinskiy Pereulok.
Ivan Konstantinovich Ayvazovskiy, A Storm, 1857, Oil on canvas
Henryk (Genrih) Ippolitovich Semiradsky, Playing Dice, 1899, oil on canvas
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovskiy, Portrait of M.I.Lopukhina, 1797, oil on canvas
(detail)
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovskiy, Allegory of Winter as an Old Man, Warming
his
Hands by a Fire, undated, oil on canvas (detail)
World Chess Championsip 2012 – some match details
The World Chess Championship 2012 will be a match between the current World
Champion Viswanathan Anand of India and Boris Gelfand of Israel, winner of the
Candidates tournament. The match will be held under the auspices of FIDE, the
World Chess Federation. The prize fund is US $2.55 million, the winner getting
$1.53 million (60%), the loser $1,02 million (40%).
Schedule
| May 10, 2012 Opening Ceremony
May 11, 2012 Game 1
May 12, 2012 Game 2
May 13, 2012 Rest day
May 14, 2012 Game 3
May 15, 2012 Game 4
May 16, 2012 Rest day
May 17, 2012 Game 5
May 18, 2012 Game 6
May 19, 2012 Rest day
May 20, 2012 Game 7 |
May 21, 2012 Game 8
May 22, 2012 Rest day
May 23, 2012 Game 9
May 24, 2012 Game 10
May 25, 2012 Rest day
May 26, 2012 Game 11
May 27, 2012 Rest day
May 28, 2012 Game 12
May 29, 2012 Rest day
May 30, 2012 Tiebreak games
May 31, 2012 Closing Ceremony |
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