June 8, 2004 - 20:27 AMT
COMING CHESS TOURNAMENT AFTER TIGRAN PETROSIAN - ONE OF THE STRONGEST IN WORLD, GARRY KASPAROV CONSIDERS
13th World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov considers that from the point of view of participant membership, the tournament devoted to the 75-th birthday of 9th World Champion Tigran Petrosian is not inferior to those held in Linares and Wijk aan Zee. In his words, as reported by Gazeta.ru, "out of the world strongest grand masters, only Vladimir Kramnik will not take part in the tournament." It should be noted that the tournament will be held in Moscow June 9-15 between the national team of Armenia and the world combined team. Garry Kasparov will head the Armenian team and Indian chess player Viswanathan Anand will be at the head of the world team. The prize fund of the competition will make $48 thousand, of which the winner team will gain $36 thousand.