Bursa: City Of Defeat

BURSA: CITY OF DEFEAT

Lragir.am
14/01/10

The Turkish city of Bursa will be recorded in the history of
the Armenian sport in black characters. If the Armenian National
football team would have lost the match with the Turkish national team
everywhere, the defeat of the Armenian National chess team in Bursa
was quite unexpected and was perhaps determined by the place where
the tournament is taking place. The Armenian National chess team,
which has won the last two Olympiads of chess, arrived only the fifth
in the World Chess Championship in Bursa.

It would be wrong to think that the New Year which Armenians like
to celebrate abundantly was the reason of the defeat. The chess
players of our national team are professionals and they know how to
prepare for a competition. However, the results our national team
has always showed, prove that. Apparently, our men were repressed
by Bursa itself. Perhaps, the head of the Armenian Chess Federation
Serge Sargsyan had to personally be engaged in the psychological
preparation of the players. If you remember, during the football
match between the Armenian and Turkish national teams in Bursa, Serge
Sargsyan was so much confident that he was happier than Gul when the
Turkish footballers scored. Serge Sargsyan’s experience would have
helped the best our chess players to avoid psychological repression.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS