GRAND MASTER SMBAT LPUTIAN GETS INTO CAR ACCIDENT ON ARTASHAT-YEREVAN HIGHWAY

Noyan Tapan
Aug 30 2006

YEREVAN, AUGUST 30, NOYAN TAPAN. Grand Master Smbat Lputian, a
World Olympic champion of chess, the Deputy Chairman of the RA Chess
Federation, a member of the executive committee of the National Olympic
Committee of Armenia, Director of the Chess Republican Academy, got
into a car accident with his personal car on August 27. Members of
his family were also in the car. The suffered members of the family
were moved to the Erebuni hospital of Yerevan.

S.Lputian’s family members got comparatively mild bodily injuries. The
grand master suffered most of all: his ribs were injured. S.Lputian
said in the phone conversation with the Noyan Tapan correspondent
that his health state is good, and in the doctors’ words, he will be
fully recovered in 1-2 weeks.