Tigran Petrosian Memorial
International chess match

From June 10 till June 15 of 2004 – the year which FIDE had officially declared the memorial year of Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian, the famous grand master, the world champion in chess - an international match in chess between the
T. Petrosian’s Team the World Team will take place in Moscow. The world best grand masters will pay tribute to the outstanding chess player.

The international match of such a high level devoted to Tigran Petrosian is carried out for the first time during the last decade in Moscow. Its organizers - the International Chess Federation, the Cigar Clan magazine and the Best Agro Company - do not doubt that the chess tournament will attract a great interest of the audience because this grandiose event has not only a sport but also a social and political character.

The tournament agenda includes:
June 7 (16.00) – a press-conference in which Alexander Zhukov, the President of the Russian Chess Federation the vice-president of the RF Government, and Garry Kasparov, a multiple world champion in chess will participate; the organization committee members will tell about the purposes of the tournament (4 Neglinnaya Street, the Ararat Park Hayatt Moscow hotel, the Khachaturyan hall). Alexander Akopov is the press-conference chairman.

June 9 (21.00) – the ceremony of the tournament opening, awarding of Oscar-2003 to V. Anandou, casting of lots (the Ararat Park Hayatt Moscow hotel, the Gallery restaurant).

June 10-15 (14.30-21.30) – regular tournaments (the Ararat Park Hayatt Moscow hotel, the Khachaturyan hall). Anatoly Karpov, the world champion in chess will comment upon the course of sets during the first and the last days of the tournament from the press-center.

June 15 – the ceremony of closing the tournament (the Ararat Park Hayatt Moscow hotel, the Khachaturyan hall).

Additional information about the tournament
may be acquired in the tournament
official press-center Mediapro telephone 789-4323
or in the Cigar Clan magazine,
telephone 931-9196.
www.tigranpetrosian.com