Armenian chess players claim third win at World Team Championship
09.01.2010 13:57 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The 4th tour of World Team Chess Championship 2009
took place in Bursa, Turkey, was held yesterday, January 8. Current
leaders, Armenians claimed their third win, beating Brazilians
2,5-1,5.

In the 5th tour, Armenian grandmasters will rival Indians.

The World Team Championship was established in 1985 and is being held
in four year cycles. It was first planned that the event be played in
Lucerne for keeps, but recently this idea has been dropped. Due to
instability of the results produced by the Swiss system adopted at the
Olympiads the World Team Championship was scheduled to be an
invitational round robin event. Only ten teams qualify; the invitation
rules varied over decades evolving to the following contemporary
formula: the host team, three top teams from recent Olympiad, four
continental champions, winners of Women’s Olympiad and one invited
team.

At the Championship, Armenian National Team won bronze in 1997, 2001
and 2005.