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High-profile int’l chess conference to be held at Armenian resort town Tsakhkadzor

High-profile int’l chess conference to be held at Armenian resort town Tsakhkadzor

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15:31, 3 May, 2019

YEREVAN, MAY 3, ARMENPRESS. Chess experts from around the world will visit the Armenian resort town of Tsakhkadzor May 7-8 for an international conference organized by FIDE.

FIDE, Armenia’s Ministry of Education and Science, the Abovyan Armenian State Pedagogical University, jointly with the Chess Academic Research Institute and the Armenian Chess Academy are organizing the “Current State and Development Trends of Chess Education” conference with representatives from more than 20 countries expected to attend.

The upcoming seminar is already the third of its kind concerning the Chess in School project. The first conference was organized in 2014 in Yerevan.

On May 7, the School Chess Olympiad final round will take place in Tsakhkadzor’s Writers’ House hotel from 10:15.

At 11:00, the official opening ceremony of the conference will take place at the town’s Multi Rest House hotel.

Guests include FIDE Vice President Bachar Kouatly and Armenia’s Minister of Education and Science Arayik Harutyunyan, among others.

Hungarian chess Grandmaster Judit Polgár will also attend the event. 

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan




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