Bulgarian MEP Slavi Binev organized in EP a chess tournament featuring the legendary Garry Kasparov and the Hungarian grandmaster Judit Polgar.
Simultaneous Chess session was part of the official presentation of the program Kasparov's "Chess in Schools" and was held in the specially provided for this purpose dinner hall of the President of the European Parliament Jerzy Buzek.
The game involved children from Belgium and Bulgaria, and one of them - the 17-years-old Kiril Goranov of Social Home "Great and George Chenchevi" from

At an initiative of Bulgarian MEP Slavi Binev, the world's most famous grandmaster Garry Kasparov visited the European Parliament in Brussels and personally presented to the members of the Parliament and representatives of institutions his program "Chess in Schools".

The program of the day of his visit included official lunch, public hearing, cocktail and mini chess tournament, followed by a press conference and gala dinner. The presentation of the program itself was made by its ideologue Garry Kasparov during the public hearing. Among the crowd of chess fans and

On the 20th of September, the Bulgarian MEP Slavi Binev hosted official lunch on the occasion of the presentation of the program of Garry Kasparov "Chess in Schools". Among the guests, except the grandmaster Garry Kasparov, were former Vice President of European Parliament Mario Mauro, presidential candidate for the EP from the Conservative Party Nirj Deva, the President of the European and the Bulgarian Chess Federation - Silvio Danailov, Professor Plamen Mollov, the President of the Kasparov Chess Foundation - Europe - Jan Callewaert, the Hungarian chess player Judit Polgar, and many other representatives of chess federations in Europe, and fans of this game.