The Alamo

At today’s press conference presenting the second stage of chess Grand Prix 2017 to be held in Moscow from 12 to 21 May 2017, Agon Limited CEO Ilya Lvovich Merenzon announced that the venue will be the Central Telegraph building in Tverskaya Street, in his own words “a place emblematic of what chess today stands for”. A limited number of tickets will been made available. Kaspersky Lab CEO Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky, who is also the main sponsor of the Grand Prix series, granted that the protocol of protection of on-line broadcasting from unspecified cyberattacks will be raised at the highest level.

In addition to Ilya Lvovich Merenzon (first from right) and Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky (second from right), the board of conferencers also included chess Grandmaster Ian Aleksandrovich Nepomniachtchi (first from left). Photo: Alina Bivol.