(Sofia, May 15, 2006) 12 journalists from 12 media will play against the World Champion Veselin Topalov in the rest day of M-Tel Masters on May 16. The simul will begin at 2 o’clock pm in the garden in front of the National Theater.

On board 1 for the journalists will be playing the doyen Valentin Serafimov from Bulgarian Telegraph Agency. In the media team are included three TV journalists – Krasimir Kushev from Bulgarian National Television, Krum Savov from Nova Television and Todor Popov from Ring TV. The sports radio Gong will be presented by Valentin Grancharov and Topsport.bg – by Lubomir Todorov. The biggest will be the number of the journalists from print media in the team – Pavel Kolev from 24 Chasa, Antoni Yordanov from Trud Daily, Jordan Palazov from Standart, Djordje Pecu from Monitor, Ivaylo Krachunov from Noshten Trud and Dimitar Andreev from 7 dni sport.

The general sponsor of M-Tel Masters – M-Tel will award the journalist with the greatest fighting spirit. He will receive one of the latest models of Samsung – D800 with 300 free minutes per month in the network of the operator for one year. The sponsor mineral water Hissar from spring № 7 will award with a unique hand-made chess set the journalist that shows the best knowledge of the chess theory.