Asbarez: Gabriel Sargissian Shares First Place in European Chess Championship

Emil Lazarian 2022
by Asbarez Staff

 

 April 5, 2022

 

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Gabriel Sargissian

Armenian Grandmaster Gabriel Sargissian will share the first place title in the European Individual Chess Championship after scoring victory in the 10th round.

Playing with whites, Sargissian defeated Azerbaijan’s Abdulla Gadimbayli and is now on level in points with Germany’s Mattias Bluebaum, thus sharing the first place title.

The latter defeated Maxime Lagarde of France in the 10th round.

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