Chess City
Chess City is a building complex mainly used for chess events in the Kalmyk capital Elista , which was initiated by the then President of the World Chess Federation and Kalmyk head of state Kirsan Ilyumschinow and completed on September 30, 1998.
Chess experts have estimated that the complex will cost between $ 30 million and $ 50 million to build. The editor of the opposition newspaper Sovetskaya Kalmykija Menke Konvejew is of the opinion that the sources and amounts of the money used cannot be known.
The first event held in Chess City was the 1998 Chess Olympiad . Chess City was also the venue for the 2004 Women's World Chess Championship and the 2006 World Chess Championship .
Dubai
In 2004 Ilyumschinow planned to build another Chess City in Dubai , for which 9.6 billion UAE dirhams (around 2.6 billion US dollars at a fixed rate) were estimated. The plans for the complex with 32 to 64-story hotel buildings in chess pieces, which should also have become the new FIDE headquarters, were discontinued in the wake of the financial crisis .
Individual references and sources
- ↑ fide.com: 10th Anniversary of "Chess City" Elista . September 30, 2008. Retrieved July 6, 2010
- ↑ nytimes.com : Where Chess Is King and the People Are the Pawns . June 20, 2004. Retrieved July 6, 2010
- ↑ chessbase.com : Ilyumzhinov and the Chess City in Dubai . August 8, 2004. Retrieved July 6, 2010
- ↑ Oliver Ephgrave: Top 5: World's wackiest architecture designs: Chess City, Dubai , ConstructionWeekOnline.com, February 2, 2012
- ↑ Dubai in 2030 , TimeOut Dubai, April 9, 2013