80TH ANNIVERSARY OF TIGRAN PETROSIAN’S BIRTH MARKED IN ESTONIA

Noyan Tapan
June 23, 2009

TALLINN, JUNE 23, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. An open chess
tournament dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the world champion
Tigran Petrosian’s birth was held in Estonia. Robert Dubrovin and
Georg Nero became the winners. According to miasin. ru, some of the
participants in the tournament were the same age as Tigran Petrosian,
they knew him during his lifetime. They came with photos, documents
and souvenirs. Lembit Vakhesaar, who was an arbiter at the famous
Karpov-Kasparov match, showed a historical document – the original
of Tigran Petrosian’s application-complaint at the 1979 Tallinn
Tournament, when during the Petrosian-Elvest game the young Estonian
player left the hall for 10 minutes.

The impression was that the chess players of Estonia had been waiting
for this event – the tournament in memory of Tigran Petrosian, and
it will certainly have its place in the timetable of Estonia’s chess
competitions, the paper reported.