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Date: 2010-01-22

Following pairings are meeting today in Chess House.

Date: 2010-01-21

Date: 2010-01-20

 The 70th Armenian Men's And 65th Armenian Women's

Chess Championship

The Armenian Men's and Women's Chess Championships will take place in Yerevan from Jan 21 to 31.

Date: 2010-01-08

H.Kasparyan Memorial

There are some changes in H.Kasparian Memorial which will take place during 8 to 15 January, 2010. The games will start at 15:00, except round 3 and round 4 (January 10) which will start at 11:00 and 16:00 accordingly. The participants will take part in different age groups:

Date: 2009-09-22

Garry Kasparov vs. Anatoly Karpov

Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov will play a 12 games match (4 rapid and 8 blitz) from 21 to 24 September, in Valencia, Spain.  For more details please go to the official web site.

Date: 2009-06-18

On the 17th of June, president of the Republic of Armenia, president of the Chess Federation of Armenia Serge Sargsyan put flowers near the monument of the 9th World Champion.

The memory of Petrosian also was revered by chess-players and chess fans.

Date: 2009-06-17

Tigran Petrosian – 80

Today, on the 17th of June, 2009 one of the most significant persons of chess history, Tigran Petrosian, would be celebrating his 80th anniversary.

Petrosian is one of the most talented son of the Armenian people. His sport achievements are very exclusive. The  “Iron Tigran” was World Chess Champion for six years (1963-1969). He achieved Soviet Union champion title for 4 times and Armenian Champion title for 3 times. Petrosian was 9-time Olympic champion, European 8-time champion, International Grandmaster, Honoured sport Master, Honoured worker of sport and physical culture of Armenia.

Tigran Petrosian’s magnificent victories brought great spur for the development of the Armenian chess. The followers of Petrosian have become 2-time Olympic champions. Nowadays, Armenia is one of the most powerful chess countries in the world, Armenian chess-players become winners of strongest tournaments, Armenia is organizing International honourable tournaments. Tigran Petrosian and his testamented wonderful traditions played a hugh and invaluable role in achieving all this.

Armenian people revere Tigran Petrosian’s memory. One of the largest streets of the capital is named after this genius chess-player. There are 3 monuments in Armenia dedicated to Tigran Petrosian: two of them are located in Yerevan and the third one is in Aparan: in the central square named after Petrosian. Chess House, placed in the heart of Yerevan, was also named after T.Petrosian. Many great tournaments dedicated to Tigran Petrosian have been organized in Armenia. In the coming August, when the 25th year of Tigran Petrosyan’s death is commemorated, Jermuk will host FIDE Grand Prix tournament with 14 strongest Grandmasters to commemorate T.Petrosian.

Date: 2009-06-16

Armenian Men's Club Cup

Armenian Men's Club Cup was finished. Mika Armenia gained 6 points and became the champion of the tournament. Chess Academy and Bank King teams took second and third places accordingly. The last place of the tournament took Kotayq.

Date: 2009-05-27

Grandmaster Gabriel Sargissian scored 5.5 points out of 7 and shared 1-2 places with GM Jaan Ehlvest at the open tournament held in Chicago. Ehlvest win in the Blitz Armageddon play-off against Sargissian and took the main prize.

Varuzhan Akobian took the 5th place with 5 points and Tigran L.Petrosian took the 9th place with 4.5 points.

Date: 2009-05-06

Grandmasters Tigran Kotanjian and Ashot Anastasian scored 7 points out of 9 in the Dubai tournament and shared 1-3 places with Dmitri Bocharov. Kotanjian took the main prize by additional performance.

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