Azerbaijan, Baku, 6 November / Trend corr. R.Ergun/ Teymur Rajabov and Shahriyar Mammadyarov will represent Azerbaijan at the world chess championship to begin in Almaty on 7 November.
The prize fund of the fast chess championship is 350,000 Swiss francs.
FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, world champion Anatoly Karpov and the famous English grandmaster Nigel Short are expected to attend the 4th world championship.
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