24.02.2017

Ilyumzhinov visits the candidate countries to host the match for the world title

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov is going to make few visits in March to the candidate countries to host the match for the world title, which will be held in 2018. He told TASS about it yesterday.

" There are few candidates at the moment, including Japan and Singapore. I plan to make a trip to Asia to visit the candidate countries to hold a series of negotiations In March," said the president of FIDE.

Earlier, Ilyumzhinov said that the 2018 match for the world chess crown will be held either in Norway or in one of the Asian countries, among which he, besides Singapore and Japan, mentioned Thailand.