29/04/2010 14:43
Grand Master Aronian won’t go to Baku
Armenia’s Grand Master Levon Aronian said that he had never agreed and would never agree to participate in the Candidates chess tournament in Baku.
The statement was made after FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhinov had said in his interview that he doesn’t exclude Levon Aronian’s participation in the Candidates tournament in Azerbaijani capital. Responding to this, Armenian Chess Federation has written to Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, FIDE Board, and to leading sport media, including Sport-Express paper.