George Duke wrote on Wed, Jun 11, 2014 04:17 PM UTC:
November Championship, Carlsen-Anand II, to be in Sochi, thanks to Putin
and Ilumzhinov:
http://en.chessbase.com/post/breaking-news-world-championship-in-sochi.
Interests in Chicago,
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-05-27/opinion/ct-make-chicago-chess-mecca-edit-0527-20140527_1_chess-master-chess-mecca-bobby-fischer,
had been weighing a bid, "before Vladimir Putin snags this tournament for the greater glory of Russia."