The President of the Bulgarian Chess Federation Stefan Sergiev said in an interview that Bulgaria is preferred to host the WCC match between the current World Champion GM Vishvanatan Anand (India) and Challenger GM Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria). Sergiev added that he had held convesations with the second most important man in FIDE - Berwick Balgabaev and FIDE’s Envoy Extraordinary Assembly of the European Chess Union (ECU) in Kaliteya (Greece). Balgabaev has satisfied that Bulgaria has a real chance to host the forum.

"FIDE relies on us. FIDE believe that India can not cope with the household" said Sergiev.
There is and another option for match hosting. This is Grozny - the capital of Chechnya. Conversations are suspended because of military situation in the area.
The decision of FIDE will be announced at Congress Kaliteya in October. The prize fund of the tournament will be around 2 million.
The deadline for submitting nominations is 30th September.

The advantages of Sofia are reflected in its attempts to organize tournaments on a high level (M-Tel Masters) and praise for the perfect organization of WCC candidates match between Veselin Topalov and Gata Kamsky held in Sofia this year.

Тhe 14th edition of Тhe Open tournament in Balager, Spain started on July 13, 2009. The event will continue until July 22, 2009.
After the second round two Bulgarian players -Kiprian Berbatov and Kiril Georgiev both tie the lead.
The tournament has a prize fund of 13 000 euro of witch the winner will take 2 200.

Former FIDE World champion GM Vladimir Kramnik won the 37th edition of Sparkassen Chess-Meeting tournament, held in Dortmund, Germany. He won the race for the 9th time in his career, ending 6½/10 points. Peter Leko, Magnus Carlsen and Dmitry Yakovenko both tie the second position with 5½/10.

Russian chess players MS Pyotr Zhdanov and WGM Natalia Pogonina are becoming more and more popular with their book "Chess kamasutra”.They both share their secrets to the audience about tournaments and sex and how they decided to write this kind of book.
"Kamasutra and chess have much in common. And the art of love, and great game are originated in India," said WGM Pogonina. “We will be reviewing the most interesting openings and middlegame positions and relating them to positions from Kamasutra; surprise our readers by introducing the “love theory” which is extremely effective for developing your chess skills and becoming happy in personal life; share unique trainings in “sexchess”, approbated by ourselves” she added.
Chess Kamasutra is going to be a very entertaining and useful book covering many interesting subjects – we aren’t revealing most of the secrets yet, but one day you’ll be able to see it for yourself.
The book will include techniques for chess players and ordinary lovers of sex - by beginning with a Sunday game undress and lead to very complex maneuvers such as "creating a weakness in the opponent”.
Whole chapter in the book is devoted to how to get sexual pleasure from the game. For example, the term "opening" means the beginning of the game, a kind of prelude to sex. Variations in the development of subsequent events may be different and most of them largely depends on whether there will be "endshpil" or as in “Chess kamasutra” - orgasm.

In the International chess tournament Albena Open 2009 with prize fund 11 000 euro four players finished with 7/ 9 points.
Winner in the final ranking is GM Krum Georgiev. He had better individual items from Azer Mirozev (Azerbaijan), Vladimir Georgiev (FYR Macedonia) and Boris Chatalbashev (Bulgaria). Krum Georgiev received 4 000 euro from the prize fund.
In the tournament participated in by 91 players from 9 countries, including 11 grandmasters and 13 international masters.

Final standing Albena Open 2009:

Bulgarian chessplayer Ivan Cheparinov won third edition of the tournament Magistral Ruy Lopez 2009 in Zafra, Spain. He took the lead in round 3 and he never let it go until the end.
In the last round today, he played against Michael Adams struggling for the first place. The Bulgarian finished on 5/7, half a point ahead of the Englishman. Adams finished second and third finished the young Spanish Champion David Larino Nieto who lost to India’s top female grandmaster Koneru.

Alexey Shirov won Mtel Masters 2009. Today he defeated the leader before the last round - Magnus Carlsen from Norway. FIDE's official No.1 Veselin Topalov finished third, after quick draw today.

MTel Masters 2009 - Final standings

5th Mtel Masters Sofia (BUL), 13-23 May 2009, cat. XXI (2755)
№	Name		FED	Rtg.	1		2		3		4		5		6		Pts.	RPerf.
1	Shirov, Alexei	g	ESP	2745	-	-	½	1	½	½	½	½	½	½	1	1	6½	2879
2	Carlsen, Magnus	g	NOR	2770	½	0	-	-	1	½	½	1	½	1	½	½	6	2818
3	Topalov, Veselin	g	BUL	2812	½	½	0	½	-	-	1	½	½	½	1	1	6	2804
5	Wang Yue	g	CHN	2738	½	½	½	0	0	½	-	-	½	½	1	½	4½	2751
4	Dominguez Perez, Leinier	g	CUB	2717	½	½	½	0	½	½	½	½	-	-	½	0	4	2758
6	Ivanchuk, Vassily	g	UKR	2746	0	0	½	½	0	0	0	½	½	1	-	-	3	2481

MTel Masters 2009 - Photo Gallery from round 6. You can use the photos for free on your site or blog.

MTel Masters 2009 - Photo Gallery rounds 2-4. You can use the photos for free on your site or blog.

Update: The video from the start of round 1 is now available.