ARMENIAN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP TO LAUNCH ON JANUARY 21

PanARMENIAN.Net
18.01.2010 19:15 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian Chess Championship will launch on January
21, with men competition due on January 22-February 4 and women
competition due on January 24-February 4.

As international arbiter Julietta Nagarakyan told PanARMENIAN.Net
reporter, 10 women, representing Armenian regions, will compete.

Ashot Anastasyan, Zaven Andriasyan, Robert Hovhannesyan, Tigran
Kotanjyan, Artur Chibukhchyan, David Kalashyan, Hrant Melkumyan, Tigran
Petrosyan and Artashes Minasyan will participate in men’s championship.

Participants will compete on a rotational basis, with winners to be
included in men’s and women’s Armenian national teams

Chess is a board game played between two players. It is played on a
chessboard, which is a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged
in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen
pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and
eight pawns. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent’s
king, whereby the king is under immediate attack (in "check") and
there is no way to remove or defend it from attack on the next move.

The current form of the game emerged in Europe during the second
half of the 15th century after evolving from a much older game of
Indian origin.