The vice-minister of defence Spas Panchev is opening today the grand masters’ chess tournament for men ‘Milko Bobotsov’. The tournament will be lead in nine rounds and is going to last eight days.

The tournament has been organized in execution of the Memorandum between Ministry of Defence and The Bulgarian Chess Federation for popularizing of chess in the Bulgarian army. The co-organizer of the tournament is the National Sports Association of the Ministry of Defence. In the sports contest are going to participate 10 chess-players from Bulgaria, Palestine, Croatia and Serbia.