Armenian new chess champion Arman Pashikyan: There was no weak player at Armenian championship

Emil Lazarian 2019
News.am, Armenia
Jan 20 2019

By Lusine Shakhbazyan
Arman Pashikyan became the chess champion of Armenia for the second time, repeating his success of 2009.

“I think I managed to win the championship thanks to a successful start. Only the game against Manuel Petrosyan turned out to be difficult. We have many young promising and strong chess players. There was no weak chess player at the Armenian Championship,” he said.

Photos: Emma Asatryan.

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