Israel Team Not Able to Play at European Championship with Basic Composition for Financial Reasons
The European Team Championship will be held from November 7 to 18 in Warsaw, where the Israel will, apparently, be represented by younger players.
The Israel Chess Federation does not have the financial ability to send the team in the main composition. The familiar "core" of the team will have the possibility to go to the tournament only if a private sponsor will be found. This was stated by the newly elected of the federation Moshe Slav in his report at a meeting.
Let us recall that the Israeli team is headed by Boris Gelfand, who has recently won the Tal Memorial.
Israeli Parlament Members Express Dissatisfaction With the Israeli Team Missing the ETCC
Oded Forer, the deputy of the Knesset representing Israel is Our Home political party, sent an urgent request to the Minister of Sports and Culture Miri Regev regarding Israeli team's absence at the upcoming European Team Championship, izrus.co.il reports.
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The teams keep arriving in the capital of Iceland to participate in the European Team Chess Championship that starts on November 13.
Israel To Replace Azerbaijan in The World Team Championship
The Azerbaijani team will miss the World Team Championship that will take place in the Armenian town of Tsakhkadzor from April 18th to April 29th, 2015, as our website has already reported. The 2013 European Champions, who have refused to come, will be replaced by the Israeli national team.
Naiditsch's Words Raised Doubts
Chess-News has been informed that the German national team players prior to the European Team Championship signed a contract under which they will receive a considerable amount of money for participation and most likely they are also going to get some bonus from the federation for winning the competition.
Ukrainian Championship: Korobov - Eljanov, Borishpolets - Ponomariov, Krivoruchko - Neverov and Other Games of the Last Round. LIVE
The games of the last round of the Ukrainian Championship have started today at 1 p.m. MSK. Watch the live broadcast.
Arkadij Naiditsch: "I'm Only Twenty-Six"
E.SUROV: This is Chess-News, we're at the closing ceremony of the European Team Championship. I'm Evgeni Surov and we will talk to Arkadij Naiditsch – the leader of the German team. Thanks to Arkadij's win over Radjabov in the last but one game Germany took the lead and maintained it. Greetings, Arkadij!
Boris Gelfand Will Head the Israeli Team at the Olympiad in Istanbul
The Israeli Chess Federation has confirmed the national team list for the forthcoming Olympiad in August-September. The team will be headed by Boris Gelfand, who is the challenger of the world chess crown at the moment; after him, in the increasing board order, there will be Emil Sutovsky, Maxim Rodshtein, Evgeny Postny and Boris Avrukh. The team was compiled according to a recommendation from its captain Alon Greenfeld.
ETCC: Russia Will Play Without Kramnik, Ukraine Won't Have Ivanchuk and Ponomariov
The official website of the European Team Championship which will be held from October 7-18 in Warsaw, Poland published the composition of the participating teams. Russia will be represented by GMs Alexander Grischuk, Peter Svidler, Alexander Morozevich, Evgeny Tomashevsky, Dmitry Andreikin. The second-ranked team is Armenia which is traditionally headed by Levon Aronian.
Alexander Morozevich: "I Really Hope that Measures Will Be Adopted Already for the Next Grand Prix Stage."
Alexander Morozevich and Ruslan Ponomariov shared their impression about their game from the last round at the press conference in Zug. At the very end, the Russian Grandmaster made the following speech:
Jobava Sutovsky FIDE Giri Karpov Kramnik Vachier-Lagrave Nakamura Carlsen Grischuk Kasparov World Cup Ivanchuk Gunina Topalov Olympiad Karjakin Svidler Grand Prix Aronian Hou Yifan Women's Grand Prix Ilyumzhinov Gelfand Morozevich Mamedyarov Anand rapid chess Caruana Wijk aan Zee
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