Chess: Armenian chess team secures second victory at the European Team Chess Championship

Panorama, Armenia

Oct 26 2019

Sport 19:23 26/10/2019 Armenia

The Armenian chess team got advantage over Croatia in the second round of the the European Team Chess Championship being held in Batumi, Georgia to run until November 2.

Armenia’s leading grandmaster Levon Aronian and Arman Pashikyan won their matches, while Gabriel Sargsyan and Hayk Martirosyan drew. In the third round Armenia will face Czech Republic and currently tops the tournament table. In the women’s tournament the Armenia team drew with France.

The European Team Chess Championship is played in 9 rounds, Swiss system, with the time control of 90 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with 30 seconds increment for every move played, starting from the move one.

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