80TH ANNIVERSARY OF 9TH WORLD CHESS CHAMPION TIGRAN PETROSIAN’S BIRTH ON JUNE 17

Noyan Tapan
June 16, 2009

YEREVAN, JUNE 16, NOYAN TAPAN. The 80th anniversary of the 9th World
Chess Champion Tigran Petrosian’s birth will be on June 17. He was
many times champion of Armenia, Moscow and the USSR and two times
world champion.

Competing for the title of the world chess champion, he defeated
Mikhail Botvinnik in 1963 and Boris Spassky in 1966.

As a member of the USSR chess team Tigran Petrosian became many times
winner of World Chess Olympiads and many times champion of Europe.

He was an Honored Worker of Sports and Physical Culture of Armenia, a
USSR Honored Master of Sport, a candidate of philosophical sciences,
and the editor-in-chief of "64" weekly. He was awarded a Sign of
Honor order.

Monuments to Tigran Petrosian were erected in Yerevan, a street and
the Central House of Chess Players in the city were named after him.

Tigran Petrosian died on August 13, 1984, in Moscow.