Published time: 26 Oct, 2016 15:48 - rt.com
Tech guru Bill Gates and social media mogul Mark Zuckerberg have
announced that they will attend the World Chess Championship (WCC) in
New York next month.
“Gates and Zuckerberg have agreed to attend the match. I don’t know whether it will be at the opening or one of the later matches,” World Chess Federation (FIDE) President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov announced Wednesday, TASS reported.
“I am still waiting to hear back from [US President Barack] Obama, [presidential candidates Donald] Trump and [Hillary] Clinton. At the very least, I haven’t had a refusal,” he added.
The WCC is held annually to determine the world chess champion and will be held this year from November 11-30 in New York, with Russian Sergey Karjakin facing Norwegian Magnus Carlsen.
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