ARMENIAN CHESS PLAYERS WIN 5TH PLACE AND INDIVIDUAL MEDALS AT WORLD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.01.2010 19:49 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian chess players came 5th at World Team Chess
Championship 2009 in Bursa, with 10 (17,5) points to their score.

Armenian team members showed good results, winning individual medals:
Levon Aronian (silver medal) Vladimir Hakobyan, Gabriyel Sargsyan
and Arman Pashikyan (bronze medals).

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.