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Date: 2010-07-21

Lake Sevan - 2010

 “Lake Sevan - 2010” international chess tournament, which was held from July 10 to 20 in a small town of Martuni, was over. The winner of the tournament was GM Arman Pashikian, who is a three-time winner of “Lake Sevan”. GM Tigran Petrosian gained the second place and the world youth champion Maksim Matlakov took the third place. For details please go to the official site .

Date: 2010-07-15

The Chess Academy of Armenia in cooperation with the Ministry of Diaspora of RA is organizing the first Pan-Armenian Chess Olympiad during 14 to 23 August, 2010. The Armenian chess-players, less than 35 years old, can take part in the Chess Olympiad. The Olympiad will be run by the individual/team system (This means that the players compete for individual place and for team place). The team consists of four chess-players (one of them is a girl). 10 teams will be formed by the following principle: 1team from: Southern America, Northern America, Europe, CIS, The Middle East, Yerevan, Armenia, NKR (Nagorno Karabakh); 2 teams from: Russia.
An International Open Chess Festival, which consists of A and B tournaments /regulation /, will be organized simultaneously with the Pan-Armenian Olympiad.

Date: 2010-07-09

Recently, in Armenia, a chess composition competition was held in honor of the great Armenian chess study composer of the 20th century, Genrikh Kasparian.  In total, the organizing committee received 53 submissions from 20 countries: Armenia, Austria, Bulgarian, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, USA, Ukraine, and Wales /in details /.

Date: 2010-06-24

FIDE Women's Grand Prix in Jermuk

The forth stage of the FIDE Women's Grand Prix, which is taking place in Jermuk, will be held during 24 June - 5 July, 2010. For details please go the official site.

Date: 2010-06-15

1st Armenian Individual championship on solving chess compositions was over. More than 50 participants were participating in the championship and 16 of them were announced the best one. We congratulate all the participants and want to thank Vladimir Akobian, Aleksey Gasparyan, Smbat Lputian and Arsen Eghiazarian for summarizing the results of the championship /results, games /.

Date: 2010-05-14

 Armenian School Chess Olympiad

Chess Federation of Armenia in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science of RA has organized the 4th Armenian School Chess Olympiad, which was started in October of 2009. The first stage was interschool and in the result 3 boys and a girl were settled as a team. Next stage was municipal after which the winners took part in regional.
The winner teams of the regional stage represented in the final stage of the Chess Olympiad held during 4 to 7 May, Kajaran. 3 teams from Yerevan, 2 teams from Shirak, Lori and Syunik regions, 1 team from other regions, Artsakh and Javakhk took part in it.
The first three places earned Yerevan school teams: school #55 after Chekhov took the first place, school #190 and school #135 were the second and third, accordingly. Schools from Vanadzor and Gyumri were also in top five.
Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU), who had already sponsored the Armenian School Chess Olympiad for the third consecutive year, presented computers to the three winning teams and the most successful teams.
As part of the AGBU's sponsorship to the 4th Armenian School Chess Olympiad the schools of RA regions and Yerevan have received a number of 2000 chess sets and chess clocks. /pictures/

Date: 2010-05-10

FIDE Grand Prix in Astrakhan

The final stage of the FIDE Grand Prix, which is taking place in Astrakhan, will be held during 10-25 May, 2010. The second qualifier for the Candidates Matches 2010-2011 will be determined after this tournament. For details please go the official site.

Date: 2010-05-08

World's Youth Stars

Young Grandmaster Samvel Ter-Sahakyan will take part in the 8th international tournament World's Youth Stars, which will take place during 8 to 21 May, 2010, Kirishi. For details please go the official site.

Date: 2010-04-03

Armenian Boys and Girls Chess Championship

Here you can find the results and pairings of the Armenian under-10, 12, 14, 16 boys and under-14 girls championship.

If you want to see the results and pairings of the Armenian under-18 boys and under-10, 12, 16, 18 girls chamiponship please click here .

Date: 2010-03-18

Armenian Youth Semifinal

Here you can find the names of the participants who have been awarded chess ranks.

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