New page in world chess history

New page in world chess history

ArmRadio.am
07.05.2007 13:39

For three days chess players all over he world were following the
Kramink-Aronyan match in Yerevan. Summing up the results of the match,
chief referee Ashot Vardapetyan noted that although the match was
friendly, it was rather strained. As a result, Levon Aronyan
celebrated victory with the score 4:2. RA President Robert Kocharyan,
Prime Minister and the President of the Chess Federation of Armenia
Serge Sargsyan came to see the last-day matches between the World
Chess Champion and the World Cup holder.

At the closing ceremony of the match Serge Sargsyan mentioned that
chess players all over the world were following the tense competition
between the two chess giants. This was a match that opened a new page
in the history of Armenian, and probably, world chess.

Thanking Vladimir Kramnik for the interesting game, Serge Sargsyan
presented the model of Noravank to Kramnik and that of St. Nshan
Church to Levon Aronyan.