Not selected in 1996, he returned on board four at Elista 1998, and scored 5.5/11.
The town center has a number of renovated public parks focused on the main square, boasting statues to both Lenin and the Buddha.
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To the east of the town lies the Olympic village of the 1998 XXXIII Chess Olympiad, known locally as "City-Chess".
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Some western tourists started to visit Elista from the mid-1990s, and more after it received publicity as the host city of the 1998 Chess Olympiad.
Erdne spends six months of the year in Elista and the remainder with his wife and son in the United States.
During the 2007 candidates matches in Elista, Lie served as Magnus Carlsen's second, helping with analysis and preparations.
He has played many times for his country's Olympiad team and at Elista in 1998 posted an impressive 66.7% board 2 score.
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Aleksandr Nikolayevich Gorbachyov (b. 1970), Russian football player and coach with FC KAMAZ, FC Dynamo Stavropol, FC Baltika, FC Fakel Voronezh and FC Elista
Dmitri Alekseyevich Ivanov (b. 1970), Russian footballer with FC Krylia Sovetov Samara, FC Torpedo Moscow, FC Rotor Volgograd, FC Uralan Elista, FC Rostov and FC Rubin Kazan
In September 2003 she was the champion of the Zonal Tournament 2.4 in São Paulo with 9 points in 10 games, qualifying to the Women World Chess Championship that was held in 2004 in Elista.
Sergei Viktorovich Yegorov (born 1973), Kazakhstani footballer who played for FC Bolat, FC Shakhter Karagandy, FC Energia Kamyshin, FC Uralan Elista, FC Baltika Kaliningrad and FC Anzhi Makhachkala