What is the difference between Chess City and City Chess and are they connected in any way?
Chess City is the project created by Kirsan Ilyumzhinov (President of Kalmykia and FIDE) for the 33rd World Chess Championship. It’s basically intended to be a large, relatively self-contained, compound used to host and promote international chess competition. The project in Elista has come under investigation due to the murder of a journalist investigating the funding of the project and Mr. Ilyumzhinov, two of the alleged suspects were apparently aides (or former aides) of the President. City Chess, on the other hand, is my little creation, originally intended for use within roleplaying games or similar things and is not in any way connected to Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, FIDE or the region of Kalmykia (on the Caspian Sea). When I first wrote the original Camarilla release of City Chess in late 1997, I hadn’t even heard of Mr. Ilyumzhinov, let alone any of his little pet projects and controversies.
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