Chess Cup to be held in Issyk-Kul

Bishkek, July 2, 2019. /Kabar/. The II International Grandmaster Anatoly Karpov Chess Cup will be held in Issyk-Kul Oblast, the press service of the Chess Federation of Kyrgyzstan reported.
The competitions will be held on June 29- August 8 with the participation of children from 6 to 14 years old on the Swiss system in 9 rounds, the winners are determined by the maximum amount of points scored.
Anatoly Karpov is a Soviet and Russian chess player, twelve times world chess champion (1975-1985), international grandmaster (1970), Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1974). Three times world champion in chess among men (1975, 1978, 1981), three times world champion of FIDE, two times world champion in the USSR national team (1985 and 1989), six times winner of chess Olympiads in the USSR national team. For his decades-long standing among the world's elite, many consider Karpov one of the greatest players in history.