Chess: Armenia’s Haik Martirosyan wins silver at European Rapid Chess Championship

Emil Lazarian 2023
Panorama
Armenia – Dec 16 2023

GM Haik Martirosyan won a silver medal at the European Rapid Chess Championship 2023.

Haik scored 9 points out of 11 without losing any game, the Armenian Chess Federation reported on Friday.

GM Alexey Sarana, who scored 9.5 points, became the winner of the championship.

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