A fact from Chess City appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 May 2006. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, President of the Republic of Kalmykia and head of the World Chess Federation, built the multi-million dollar Chess City complex for hosting international chess tournaments? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/May.

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Actually Ostap Bender was no chess fan because he played chess two times in the life (as his creators Ilf and Petrov said). Ostap Bender told an idea of building a Chess City, which idea Ilyumzhinov made real. Will anybody correct the passage on Ostap in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zabaznov ( talk • contribs) 09:00, 31 August 2009 (UTC) reply