8 ARMENIAN CHESS PLAYERS IN THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP

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| 20:00:11 | 17-06-2005 | Politics |

Today in Warsaw the Chess European individual Championship will
start. 8 Armenian chess players will take part in it – Levon Aronyan,
Artashes Minasyan, Smbat Lputyan, Ashot Anastasyan, Karen Asryan,
Gabriel Sargsyan, Tigran L. Petrosyan, and Levon Babujyan.

Vladimir Hakobyan and Rafael Vahanyan are factually the only leading
Armenian players who will not participate in the championship. Before
leaving for Poland the RA Defense Minister and President of the Chess
Federation Serge Sargsyan received the players.

The first round of the championship will be held tomorrow. The winner
will be awarded with 20 thousand Euros, the player winning the second
place will get 16 thousand, and the third place – 12 thousand. Besides,
the European championship will reveal many participants of the World
Championship.