Armenia beat U.S. at World Team Chess Championship
13.01.2010 12:45 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia scored a 2.5- 1.5 victory over the U.S. in
the 8th round of the World Team Chess Championship going on in Bursa,
Turkey.

Presently, Armenian grandmasters come fifth in the tournament chart
with 10 (17,5) points.

In the final 9th round, Armenia will rival Egypt. U.S. will play
vs. Azerbaijan while Russia will match against Israel.

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.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress