Central Military Club
Neo-Renaissance officers' club with a concert hall, art gallery and café, finished in 1907.
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This guide to the Central Military Club in Sofia follows the spring of two thousand ten, when the world chess championship came to an officers' clubhouse and two million euros rode on a single board. You'll meet Viswanathan Anand and Bulgaria's Veselin Topalov, a volcanic ash cloud over Europe, and a game that went dark halfway through. It also reaches back to the eighteen-nineties officers who paid for the plot. Best heard on Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard, facing the facade.
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