"Restaurant "Russian Samovar" is famous for its history spirit. It's really cozy and the cuisine is delicious. I had a conversation with the Soviet dissident, who is also a brilliant chess player, the captain of Ukraine's team and Joseph Brodsky's friend. We talked about chess, politics and many other things, "- Kirsan Ilyumzhinov wrote in his Twitter.
By the way there were a couple of funny moments too. Mr. Alburt was going to give his guest a book he had wrote, but forgot it in the taxi on his way to the restaurant. The head of FIDE, who noted that the taxi driver was a native Indian, responded: "`Do not worry, let a compatriot of the great Indian champion Vishy Anand study chess with the book written by the famous grandmaster of the United States".