Armenian chess master marries German businessman 13:56 AMT, October 5, 2013 YEREVAN. – WGM Lilit Mkrtchian, who plays second board for the Armenian national women’s chess team, married German businessman Johannes Sperr. “My husband was born in Dillingen city;...
Aronian: Our girls must be focused during all games
Levon Aronian’s advice to the Armenian female chess players is to be watchful 09:47, 7 November, 2012 YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 7, ARMENPRESS. The attitude of the Armenian women chess players to each game in the Women’s World Chess Championship must be...
Mkrtchian, Petrosian win Kasparian tournament
Lilit Mkrtchyan, Tigran Petrosyan win tournament dedicated to 50th anniversary of Henrik Kasparian chess schoolDecember 25, 2010 – 17:42 AMT 13:42 GMT PanARMENIAN.Net – On December 25, the Chess House in Yerevan hosted an event dedicated to the 50th...
Lilit to play in Rector’s Cup
Lilit Mkrtchyan to partake in the “Rector’s Cup” tournament Saturday, March 27 The Armenian Grand Master Lilit Mkrtchyan will partake in the “Rector’s Cup” chess tournament which will be held in Kharkov on March 26-29. As the Armenian Chess...
Lilit Mkrtchyan broke through top 20
Lilit Mkrtchyan joins top-20 Women Chess Players No member of Armenian women’s chess team ranked in the list of top-10 players that are rated by FIDE by November. Lilit Mkrtchyan has reached the best result: she seeded 16 on...
Lilit Mkrtchyan in Nanjing
Lilit Mkrtchyan will represent Armenia at Nanjing 2009 – 2010 2nd FIDE Women Grand Prix23.09.2009 15:35 GMT+04:00 /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian chess player Lilit Mkrtchyan will represent Armenia at 2nd FIDE Women Grand Prix to take place in Nanjing, China from...
Following the leader
Following Yekaterina12:08 pm Today Sports Armenian chess player Lilit Mkrtchyan tied the match with her Polish counterpart Iveta Raylich during the 10th round of the European women’s chess tournament and closes the top three with 7.5 points. Russian chess...
Mkrtchian defeats Socko to take clear lead
Round 6 top board results: Table White Score Fed. Rating Black Score Fed. Rating Result 1 IM Melia, Salome 4.5 GEO 2422 GM Hoang Thanh Trang 4.5 HUN 2483 ½-½ 2 IM Mkrtchian, Lilit 4.5 ARM 2460 GM Socko,...
Hou to face Humpy Koneru in Semi
GM-elect Hou (2557) – IM_Mkrtchian (2436) [B13]WWC – Nalchik, 07.09.2008 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3 Nc6 5.c3 Nf6 6.Bf4 Bg4 7.Qb3 Qc8 8.Nd2 e6 9.Ngf3 Be7 10.0–0 Bh5 11.Ne5 Bg6 12.Nxg6 hxg6 13.h3 Nh5 14.Bh2 Bg5 15.f4...
Mkrtchian held Hou to a draw in 1st game
Photo by chessdom IM Mkrtchian (2436) – WGM Hou (2557) [E12]Women’s World Championship, 07.09.2008 1.d4 e6 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 b6 4.a3 Bb7 5.Nc3 d5 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.Bd2 Nf6 8.Rc1 c5 9.Bf4 a6 10.dxc5 Qxd1+ 11.Rxd1 Bxc5 12.Na4 Nbd7 13.Nxc5...