Azerbaijani chess players will test their strength at the International chess festival "Nana Alexandria Cup-2014" in Poti, Georgia from July 13 to 20, SIA reports.
Azerbaijan`s hopes will be pinned on eight chess players.
The festival will bring together nearly 400 players from 9 countries, including Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Russia and Armenia. The total prize fund of the tournament amounts to 35,000 lari.
The tournament will be played in 9 groups. Time control will be standard 90 min all moves/+30 sec.
Nana Alexandria is a Georgian chess Woman Grandmaster (1976) and International Arbiter (1995). She was the challenger in two matches for the Women`s World Chess Championship. Alexandria was awarded the Woman International Master (WIM) title in 1966 and the WGM title in 1976, she was USSR Women's Champion in 1966, 1968 (jointly) and 1969. Alexandria was the Women's World Championship Challenger in 1975 and 1981. She was one of the contributing players of the USSR team that dominated the women's Olympiads of the 1980s.
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