Monday, June 24, 2019

Table for Two

7th FIDE President Arkady Vladimirovich Dvorkovich told TASS today that he will begin negotiations with Russia, if he will not soon get a “best offer” by China with respect to the aim of organising and hosting the upcoming Women’s Word Chess Championship match between 居文君 (Jū Wénjūn) and Aleksandra Yuryevna Goryachkina, which is unofficially planned for the end of 2019 or the beginning of 2020. The unavailability of other “neutral” host countries is, at least for now, probably due to the unusually high (announced) prize fund of €500,000 €uros.
Boasts aside, it should be noted that a World Chess Championship match should be as much a private affair between two people as a social spectacle in a multicultural society, although knowing that it is not easy for anyone to get an audience out of a “self mindset”.

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