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.

Broadcast delay

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WATCH OFF! The live radio talk show with the organizers of the World Chess Championship match Ilya Lvovich Merenzon and Nikita Vladimirovich Kim, originally scheduled for tomorrow, was delayed until a later undetermined date! They apologize. In the meanwhile, think about what to ask them and keep staying tuned on Chess-News.ru. For further details, see http://chess-news.ru/node/21912.

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WATCH OUT! Ask a question to the organizers of the World Chess Championship match Ilya Lvovich Merenzon and Nikita Vladimirovich Kim. For further details, see http://chess-news.ru/node/21912. Radio Chess-News.ru live broadcast on Monday, August 15, 2016, starting at 20,00, Moscow Time. Ilya Lvovich Merenzon, Agon’s CEO, and Nikita Vladimirovich Kim, Vice President of Moscow Chess Federation, will talk about the organization of the 2016 World Chess Championship match in New York and the “Chess in Schools” program. On the occasion, they’ll be glad to answer to the listeners and sufers questions.

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Russian Sergey Karjakin to challenge Norwegian world champion Magnus Carlsen in match starting in November After months of delay and much scepticism in some quarters that it would ever happen, the company that holds the marketing rights to the world chess championship will announce on Tuesday that the next title match – between the Norwegian world champion Magnus Carlsen and the Russian challenger Sergey Karjakin – will take place in New York in November. The 12-game match will start on 11 November and be played over a three-week period at the newly refurbished Fulton Market building in central New York. “We are thrilled to hold the championship in such a fantastic venue”, said Ilya Lvovich Merenzon, the chief executive of Agon, which holds the commercial rights to the world championship. “The location befits the status of chess as one of the world’s fastest growing sports both in terms of participation and commercial appeal”. [Read more].

• Stephen Moss, Final of world chess championship to take place in New York, The Guardian, August 9, 2016

Proposal for Fulton Market Building, viewed from South and Beekman streets, night rendering. Image courtesy of New York YIMBY.