Third consecutive victory for Maria Gevorgyan at the European Women’s Championship

Panorama, Armenia

Sport 17:32 20/04/2019 Armenia

Member pf the Armenian Women’s Chess team Maria Gevorgyan won in the round 8 of the European Women’s Championship. Playing with blacks Gevorgyan defeated Nino Batsiashvili of Georgia which was her fifth and the third straight victory at the tournament.

Other Armenian representatives Elina Danielyan and Lilit Mkrtchyan played draw , while Anna Sargsyan and Siranush Ghukasyan lost.

After 8 rounds played. Elina Danielyan has scored 5.5 points and is half a point behind the leaders Alina Kashlinskaya of Russia and Inna Gaponenko of Ukraine.

To note, 130 players have registered for the tournament, which is played over eleven rounds according to the Swiss system. The14 best players qualify for the next World Cup, a world championship qualifying event.

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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