Today, visiting numerous tournaments in different countries, meeting with officials, you are engaged in the noblest and most important business – promoting chess all over the world, promoting the royal game.
I wish you, dear Nona Terentyevna, good health, prosperity, inexhaustible optimism, good mood, further success and many years of service to our common cause!"
On 3 May, FIDE President sent a congratulatory letter to the multiple world champion, international grandmaster Nona Gaprindashvili. It reads as follows:
"Dear Nona Terentyevna! Please accept my most cordial congratulations on your birthday! I am proud of being acquainted with you and remember our meetings with great warmth.
You devoted all your life to chess and have always been a dedicated fan of this noble game. You have made a significant contribution to the promotion and development of world chess. Your brilliant chess career, high professionalism, modesty and tactfulness serve as an example for all chess players.
