The Yerevan Chess Giants is taking place between June 8th and 15th 2008. After the death of Armenian GM Karen Asrian, the event was renamed to the Karen Asrian Memorial. Time control 25′ + 10′ inc. Standings after 10...
GM Asrian passed away
Grandmaster, Armenian chess champion Asrian dies at 282008-06-09 18:32:34 YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) – Karen Asrian, an Armenian chess grandmaster who was the ex-Soviet nation’s reigning champion and won the 2006 Chess Olympiad, died Monday after suddenly losing consciousness, the...
Yerevan Chess Giants
The Yerevan Chess Giants will take place from June 8 to 15, 2008. Here is the official website: http://www.chessgiants.am/Yerevan Chess Giants (ARM), June 8-15, 2008 1 Morozevich, Alexander g RUS 27742 Aronian, Levon g ARM 27633 Leko, Peter g...
Major Event in Armenia
The Armenian Chess Federation (http://www.armchess.am/) just announced a major rapid chess tournament with $262,000 prize funds. This event will take place from June 8 to 15, 2008 in Yerevan, Armenia. Here is the list of players: 1. Morozevich Alexander...
Chess President elected President of Armenia
President of the Armenian Chess Federation elected President of Armenia To President-elect Of the Republic of ArmeniaPresident of Chess Federation of Armenia Serzh Sargsian Dear Serzh Azatovich! On behalf of the leadership and citizens of the Republic of Kalmykia,...
Asrian wins Armenian Championship
The Armenian Championship has just concluded in Yerevan. GMs Asrian and Minasian tied for 1st with 8 out of 12. However, Asrian won on tie-break. Here are the standings: 1-2. Asrian and Art. Minasian 8 pts in 12 games3-5....
3 lead World Junior Championship
Leaders after 10 rounds: 1 IM Grigoryan Avetik 2489 ARM 7.52 GM Wang Hao 2643 CHN 7.53 GM Popov Ivan 2539 RUS 7.5 4 GM Meier Georg 2558 GER 7.05 GM Andreikin Dmitry 2555 RUS 7.06 GM Adly Ahmed...
Adly leads World Junior Championship
After 7 rounds, GM Adly of Egypt is the surprised leader of the World Junior Championship. Half point behind is GM Laznicka of the Czech Republic, followed by 9 with 1 point back. 1 GM Adly Ahmed 2494 EGY...
Gopal leads Lake Sevan event in Armenia
The Lake Sevan tournament (Category 12) takes place from July 6 to 14, 2007 in Armenia. Here are the standings after 6 rounds: 1 IM Gopal G.N. 2480 IND 4.0 2-5 Li Chao 2529 CHN, IM Vovk Yuri 2557...
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He’s looking at you kids! Create your own clever caption! Have fun! Sport: Aronyan victory over Kramnik raises hopes for championship bidBy Suren Musayelyan ArmeniaNow reporterArmenia’s best chess-player and current World Cup holder Levon Aronyan beat in style the...