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Chess | 28.07.10 | 16:12

Chess: FIDE moves Candidates matches from Baku to Kazan

FIDE President Kirsan Illyumzhinov has announced that the 2011 Candidates matches, originally scheduled to be held in Azerbaijan, will now take place in Russia, according to media reports. Earlier, Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronyan had said he would refuse to participate in a tournament staged in Azerbaijan, for security reasons.

But the change in FIDE’s decision reportedly comes following a Russian request.

Chess: FIDE confirms Aronyan won’t play in Baku

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Chess | 05.07.10 | 12:30

Chess: Women’s Grand Prix nearing end in Jermuk

Georgia’s Nana Dzagnidze needs a draw in the 11th and final round at the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix tournament being hosted in an Armenian resort.

With 8 ½ points scored in ten rounds of the tournament in Armenia’s central town of Jermuk, the Georgian grandmaster has a one-point lead over her closest rival Tatiana Kosintseva from Russia. The two are likely to finish first and second in the tournament that has brought together 12 women grandmasters from seven countries.

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Chess | 24.06.10 | 10:53

Chess in Jermuk: Women GMs start a tourney in the Armenian resort town

By Suren Musayelyan

Some well-known and even famous names in women’s chess will be familiar faces in a central Armenian resort town in the next ten days or so. FIDE Women’s Grand Prix 4th tournament (Genrikh Kasparian Memorial) is opening in Jermuk today, June 24, and will last till July 5.

WGMs Lilit Mkrtchyan and Elina Danielyan will represent Armenia at the tournament that has brought together a dozen participants from seven countries, including three world champions - Georgia’s Maia Chiburdanidze, Shen Yang from China and Bulgarian Antoaneta Stefanova.

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Chess | 07.06.10 | 11:19

Chess: Armenia’s Aronyan second in Rapid Chess tourney in Spain

By Suren Musayelyan

Blitz tiebreak games were required to decide the winner of a hotly contested rapid chess tournament final featuring an Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronyan competing in fast chess against three other grandmasters at a prestigious tournament in Spain Sunday.

Beating Cuban chess master Leinier Dominguez in the semifinal, Aronyan headed for the final of the XXIII Ciudad De Leon tournament (June 3-6) in Leon where he would play Israel’s Boris Gelfand, the winner of the semifinal battle against Spain’s Francisco Vallejo.

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Chess | 04.06.10 | 14:03

Chess: FIDE confirms Aronyan won’t play in Baku

By Suren Musayelyan

International chess’s governing body has confirmed that next year’s World Champion candidates’ matches will be held in two countries, saving Armenia’s top player the trouble of playing in Azerbaijan.

As the winner of the FIDE Grand Prix 2008-2009 Levon Aronyan is one of eight chess grandmasters to play in a Candidates Tournament to decide the next World Championship challenger.

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Chess | 14.05.10 | 12:55

In Armenia chess is king and grandmasters are stars

www.independent.co.uk

Editor’s note: An article in London’s Independent newspaper says of Armenia that “the chess-mad country is in the kind of frenzy of anticipation that most countries reserve for the football World Cup”. The “frenzy” comes as news to those of us who live here. Nonetheless . . .

On the nightly news, its masters treated as sports stars and victories celebrated like national holidays, chess is the king of games in Armenia.

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Chess | 03.05.10 | 11:08

Chess: Armenia maintains leading positions in FIDE rankings

By Suren Musayelyan

Armenia’s top grandmaster Levon Aronyan has maintained his fifth rank among the world’s best male chess players in the latest rating released by the game’s international governing body FIDE.

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Chess | 25.03.10 | 12:52

Success in Chess: Aronyan wins a blind match at Amber

Levon Aronyan finally celebrated a victory in the 19th Amber Blindfold and Rapid chess tournament beating Russia’s representative Alexander Grischuk 1.5:0.5 in Round 10.

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Chess | 25.02.10 | 11:11

Chess: Aronyan finishes third among six at Linares

By Suren Musayelyan

Armenian GM Levon Aronyan ended a series of nine draws with a tenth round victory over Vugar Gashimov of Azerbaijan on Wednesday at the closing international chess tournament in Spanish Linares.

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Chess | 01.02.10 | 12:13

Sport: Armenia has new chess champs, sport minister

By Suren Musayelyan

Grandmaster Avetik Grigoryan has become the winner of Armenia’s 70th men’s chess championships and may be joining the nation’s Chess Olympiad team in defending their title in Russia in September. Meanwhile, Anahit Kharatyan became the winner of Armenia’s 65th chess championships among women.

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Chess | 13.01.10 | 15:35

World Chess Championship: Bright victories (including latest over USA) and disappointing defeats for Team Armenia

By Georg Khachaturyan

At the ending World Team Chess Championship in Bursa, Turkey, Armenia beat the strong USA team in the penultimate round, having already disposed of chess grand Israel, held chess powerhouses Russia and India to a draw, beaten historical foe Turkey (in a revanche of sorts for soccer), but, disappointedly, lost to regional archrival Azerbaijan.

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Soccer: Armenia announces Iran friendly

Armenian soccer’s governing body has announced a friendly game between the national teams of Armenia and Iran that is due to be held in Yerevan next month.

The Football Federation of Armenia (FFA) said on Wednesday the game will take place at Hrazdan Stadium in the capital on August 11 (kickoff at 9:00pm local time).

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A gift for Merkel: King Arthur gives German Chancellor a pair of boxing gloves

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Soccer: Armenia’s Mika might play Liverpool

By Suren Musayelyan

Armenia’s FC Mika will have everything to play for when they host a Macedonian team in the second leg of a UEFA Europa League second qualifying round tie in Yerevan on Thursday. In what seemed to be more of a blessing than a curse for any Armenian team at this stage, the tournament’s draw late last week decided that the winner of the Mika v Rabotnicki tie got an underperforming, but, nonetheless, renowned English Premiership club Liverpool as their next opponent in the third and final qualifying round.

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