Andrey Levkin: Symbolize!

A significant, as well as a natural event, which explains everything at all. That is, how everything works here. In Skolkovo they will play chess for the world championship.

To understand that it is “everything” that this fact explains, one should start from the fact and gradually, step by step, reach the sophisticated generalization. The most fresh fact: “ The match for the title of world chess champion between the current winner of this title Indian Vishwanatan Anand and the Israeli of Belarusian origin Boris Gelfand will be held in Moscow in May 2012. So she decided Fide after studying the applications received. The competition budget will be $ 2.55 million .”

Thanks to Gazeta.ru, who, like no one, reacted to this news, you can look at all future global sports events that will be held in Russia in a more or less visible time.

The World Pentathlon Championship (Moscow, 2011)
Match for the title of World Chess Champion (Moscow, 2012)
World Skate Sports Championship (Moscow, 2012)
World Athletics Championship (Moscow, 2013)
Summer Universiade (Kazan, 2013)
Winter Olympics (Sochi, 2014)
Stage "Formula 1" (Sochi, 2014)
World Water Sports Championship (Kazan, 2015)
World Hockey Championship (Moscow - St. Petersburg, 2016)
World Cup (2018)

Pentathlon and the Universiade is still so, but the rest is not cooler. Moreover, there were already held events, including those selected on the occasion of someone else's force majeure, as the World Cup in figure skating instead of Japan, which had problems with tsunami and nuclear power plants.

But the current event puts a topic on a fundamentally new level. Russia is involved in all the above events. Even in the "Formula" there is a chance that Petrov will remain until 14 years old. And here is the first time when the country receives the right to hold the World Cup, where its citizen does not play. Well, yes, you can classify Gelfand for the Soviet (or some other local) chess school, but it is still from Israel. Even if the Belarusian origin (the union state somehow does not quite convince). Well, Anand is also not local.

Given the presence of the head of the FIDE of K. Ilyumzhinov, it could be assumed that he - in order to strengthen chess - set up resources to someone and, say, saved the match that could not take place otherwise. With chess, such a parsley can be much more often than with figure skating. They will agree, and do not collect the prize fund, well, all over again. No, in this case there was a fight against India. Moreover, that ended even with a mystical way.

There was a tender, according to which the organizers of the match should guarantee a minimum prize pool of € 1 million and transfer another 200 thousand to FIDE. The Russian application was almost a Tutelka in a Tutelka (well, a little bit on top), amounting to $ 2.55 million. But another participant in the tender (and having a person who had a person who had a government government (capital-Chennai (was supposed to) was ready to allocate 200 million rupees (about $ 4.5 million). And an Indian vice-president of the fidel. Di Sundar even said: "We are sure that we will get it."

It is clear that Anand for India is more important than for Skolkovo, and Gelfand is also less important for Skolkovo than anand for India. Ilyumzhinov as the head of the FIDE, like an awkward, in any case, not a single budget from this story will suffer-it is reported that $ 2 million will be announced. Here, the co-owner of the N-Trans group Andrei Filatov is invested. Because he loves chess, he has already built a monument to Alekhin in Paris, and now he delivered a championship match in Skolkovo.

A few technical details : “ The amount of the prize in the application of the Russian Chess Federation is about $ 400 thousand more than that of India,” said FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. “It was also taken into account that recently Russia has done a lot to develop the chess program in many regions and at the federal level .” Well, since both Anand and Gelfand agree, then, apparently, with the prize, everything is so, and the Indian figure was confused. And, of course, there was no doubt that if Russia has done a lot to promote chess in schools in many regions, then India could not compete with her. Definitely, but why Skolkovo?

Ilyumzhinov explained that several options were considered, including the Pushkin Museum (did the museum know about this?). But the choice was made in favor of Skolkovo. “ A special building will be built in Skolkovo,” said Ilyumzhinov. “There will be a hall, a conference room, a press center .” Cute, yes. Even the press center will be even a conference room.

It is not too clear what exactly will symbolize with a “special building, cube”, but in general the symbolization is evident. Both chess to schools, and Skolkovo itself. But what can we symbolize chess in Skolkovo? But this is not important, because the act of symbolization itself is more important. How can cheat be related to innovation and nanotechnology, when are they one and a half thousand years old? There is certainly something symbolic. Of course, any next act of adding symbolic non -core capital enhances the symbolization of Skolkovo itself. Probably, it is necessary, it is then built to do this, and not to work there. Type as a Moscow financial center, the fight against corruption and the expansion of Moscow two and a half times. Otherwise, it is not clear why Skolkovo, where Anand and Gelfand play.

In general, in this part in Skolkovo there were already a lot of things. And every time it is not so that very specialized Merporiasia. The president there had a press conference, specifically symbolizing. There was an exhibition "Red men in Skolkovo", too, for a reason. Or the story of last December : " The traditional New Year's Bosco Bal in Skolkovo took place, on which Valeria portrayed Edith Piaf, and Philip Kirkorov - Engelbert Humpperdinka ." It was creative there: " In this symbol of modernization, Mr. Kusnirovich managed to breathe the spirit of the Soviet Research Institute: invitation tickets were printed on punchards ... "

So society did not quite understand the specific goal of his, Skolkov, creation. Because there is such a thing - symbolize. Someone here will ask the question: what exactly to symbolize? And this will be the wrong question, because in the conditions of Russian reality to “symbolize” it is not a transitional verb and does not imply a combination with a vinological case. It will be right to "symbolize" correctly. How to stand, lie, dream. Here Skolkovo is exactly in order to become this verb and carry out constant activity, symbolizing. Well, this is obvious: if the country is the main thing in the country, then it will always build symbolic reality.

Considering that this part of my composition looks extremely conflict, you should share doubt. Ilyumzhinov, symbolization of Chesis City as New Vasyukov. Will he transfer Karma (Buddhist, after all) this, not quite perfect project in Skolkovo? Probably, the second time Ilyumzhinov will certainly succeed.