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Ilyumzinov proposes to build chess centre on Twin Towers site in New York
Mark Crowther - Thursday 16th September 2010
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has proposed to build a chess centre on the site of the collapsed Twin Towers in New York. Now either you're going to think this is a great idea, or, so breathtakingly inappropriate that it is yet another reason why Ilyumzhinov has to go. In addition as a friend who knows nothing about chess pointed out the name World Chess Centre is way too close to World Trade Centre for comfort.
An RIA Novosti report of 16th September 2010 says:
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has proposed a bid of $10 million for land in New York that was the site of the "Twin Towers" that were destroyed in 2001 in a terrorist attack. They want to build a chess center, according to FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov at a press conference for RIA Novosti.
According to Ilyumzhinov, he was commissioned by the FIDE Presidential Board on Wednesday to sign a letter to the mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg and owner of the land "with a proposal to buy the land for 10 million dollars."
"The sum of $10 million was brought about by the news that last week the American billionaire Donald Trump made an offer of 7,5 million dollars, and we decided to beat him," - said the head of FIDE.
Ilyumzhinov said that FIDE is going "to build an international chess center (World Chess Center) and the International Chess Academy" on this site.
"We are currently awaiting a response to our letter." - added Ilyumzhinov.
The bid seems to be a complete misunderstanding of what land is at stake, Trump didn't bid for the World Trade Centre site. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ro-mosque.html but land near by which is the subject of controversy. In addition "a lawyer for another investor, Wolodymyr Starosolosy, dismissed Mr Trump’s bid as "a cheap attempt to get publicity and get in the limelight". So quite what New Yorkers will make of this is anyone's guess.
Ilyumzinov proposes to build chess centre on Twin Towers site in New York
Mark Crowther - Thursday 16th September 2010
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has proposed to build a chess centre on the site of the collapsed Twin Towers in New York. Now either you're going to think this is a great idea, or, so breathtakingly inappropriate that it is yet another reason why Ilyumzhinov has to go. In addition as a friend who knows nothing about chess pointed out the name World Chess Centre is way too close to World Trade Centre for comfort.
An RIA Novosti report of 16th September 2010 says:
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has proposed a bid of $10 million for land in New York that was the site of the "Twin Towers" that were destroyed in 2001 in a terrorist attack. They want to build a chess center, according to FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov at a press conference for RIA Novosti.
According to Ilyumzhinov, he was commissioned by the FIDE Presidential Board on Wednesday to sign a letter to the mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg and owner of the land "with a proposal to buy the land for 10 million dollars."
"The sum of $10 million was brought about by the news that last week the American billionaire Donald Trump made an offer of 7,5 million dollars, and we decided to beat him," - said the head of FIDE.
Ilyumzhinov said that FIDE is going "to build an international chess center (World Chess Center) and the International Chess Academy" on this site.
"We are currently awaiting a response to our letter." - added Ilyumzhinov.
The bid seems to be a complete misunderstanding of what land is at stake, Trump didn't bid for the World Trade Centre site. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ro-mosque.html but land near by which is the subject of controversy. In addition "a lawyer for another investor, Wolodymyr Starosolosy, dismissed Mr Trump’s bid as "a cheap attempt to get publicity and get in the limelight". So quite what New Yorkers will make of this is anyone's guess.
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