By Vigen Margaryan YEREVAN, February 3 — International chess grandmaster, citizen of the Republic of Armenia Levon Aronyan ruled out his participation in the Candidates Tournament of World Championship if they are held in Azerbaijan. The letter by Levon Aronyan addressed to FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and FIDE Presidential Board members states: “Dear Presidential Board [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, January 24 — Tigran Petrosyan won the 72nd Armenian Chess Championship held in Yerevan. The final round featured two chess leaders Tigran Petrosyan and Robert Hovhannisyan. In the end Tigran Petrosyan managed to beat Robert Hovhannisyan with 7 points and consequently became the champion of the Republic of Armenia in the [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, December 20 — Upon the decision of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Tigran Sarkisian 106 athletes, who obtained highest results at the World and Europe Championships, received monetary prizes. It’s noteworthy that not only the athletes received prizes but also their coaches (personal coaches, head coaches of the [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, November 3 — “Men and women national chess teams of the Republic of Armenia will take part in the European Team Chess Championships that will be held on November 3-11 in Greek city Porto Karras,” armchess.am reports. The men national team is represented by Levon Aronian, Vladimir Hakobyan, Gabriel Sarkisian and [...]

By Adonia Agayan YEREVAN, August 25 – Each of the six members of the Armenian men’s chess team (five players (among them Levon Aronian) and the coach) that became world champion at the 8th World Team Chess Championship will receive 7,500,000 dram. The decision was made today, at the sitting the Armenian government. The Championship was [...]

By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, December 23 – 9-year-old Samvel Sevyan who comes from an Armenian family has become the youngest Chess Master in the United States. The boy received the title from the U.S. Chess Federation on December 11, at the game in San Francisco. To obtain the Master of Sports title in the United [...]

By Alexander Tagvoryan YEREVAN, October 8 – According to the World Chess Federation (FIDE), Armenian chess player Levon Aronian is rated the third best chess player in the world. The list of the top 5 players includes the Norwegian Magnus Carlsen in first place, followed by Indian Viswanathan Anand, Aronian, Bulgarian Veselin Topalov and Russian [...]