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There was an ITAR-TASS press conference on Tuesday 12th June 2002 attended by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov,Garry Kasparov,Slava Fetisov (Russian minister of sport) and Andrey Selivanov (President of Russian chess federation) to officially announce a new "Match of Century". The famous match between Soviets and the Rest of the World was first held in Belgrade 1970 and again in London in 1984. This time it will be Russia on its own. It is to be held in September 8th-12th 2002 in Moscow over 10 boards using a Scheveningen System and rapid chess (25+10). The exact composition of the teams is to be announced but Vladimir Kramnik,Garry Kasparov, Anatoly Karpov,Alexander Khalifman,Alexander Morozevich,Evgeny Bareev, Alexander Grischuk,Peter Svidler,Alexey Dreev and probably either Sergey Rublevsky,Vadim Zvjagintsev or Alexander Motylev. The opposition will be Viswanathan Anand,Ruslan Ponomariov, Vesselin Topalov,Vassily Ivanchuk,Boris Gelfand,Peter Leko,Aleksei Shirov,Judit Polgar and Ye Jiangchuan and possibly Ilia Smirin,Vladimir Akopian,Zurab Azmaiparashvili,Joel Lautier,Rustam Kasimdzhanov,Nigel Short and Loek van Wely.
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