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    ArmenPress
    March 11 2004

    INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT IN KARABAGH IRRITATES BAKU

    BAKU, MARCH 11, ARMENPRESS: Azerbaijani authorities reacted
    strongly to the first-ever international sporting event in Nagorno
    Karabagh, a major chess tournament that was opened in Stepanakert
    last Tuesday by a former world champion Boris Spassky. A statement by
    Azerbaijani foreign ministry claimed that Armenian authorities
    ignored FIDE's calls not to hold the event and its warnings that the
    tournament's results would not be recognized.
    However, the ten-day tournament that brought to Nagorno Karabagh
    grandmasters from Armenia, Georgia, Switzerland, Poland, Latvia and
    Iran was organized by the Karabagh government and is being held under
    the auspices of the world chess governing body, FIDE and is dedicated
    to the 75th birth anniversary of the late Tigran Petrosian, the
    ethnic Armenian former world champion in the 1960s. Before the
    official opening of the tournament, a welcoming letter from the FIDE
    president, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, was read out in which he said he was
    convinced that the holding of the international tournament in
    Stepanakert will contribute to the development of the unique Armenian
    chess culture.
    The statement by Azeri foreign ministers said that "despite FIDE's
    warning Armenian and Karabagh authorities did not lose another chance
    to stage a propaganda show."
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