ARMENIA DROP TO 4TH POSITION AT WORLD TEAM CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

PanARMENIAN.Net
11.01.2010 12:55 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia made a 2:2 draw with India and suffered a
1:3 defeat by Greece in the 5th and 6th rounds of the World Team Chess
Championship respectively. In the 7th round, Armenian grandmasters
will rival Russians.

The World Team Chess 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.