17 January 2017

FIDE and Adi-Ahmad Sports Club Sign Memorandum on Cooperation

The club representative Ernesto Inarkiev receives the right to play in the FIDE Grand Prix.

The memorandum was signed by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Alikhan Kharsiev, Russian State Duma Deputy and founder of Adi-Ahmad Sports Club (Troitskoe village, Republic of Ingushetia) on Monday, January 16 in the RCF Chess Museum. The main idea of the agreement is promoting chess in Ingushetia, introducing chess into the republican schools, and support of the strongest local players, including the 2016 European champion Ernesto Inarkiev. The latter thus received the right to participate in the FIDE Grand Prix series. 

FIDE Grand Prix details 

Adi-Ahmad Sports Club   

Photos by Vladimir Barsky