In the 8th round of Norway Chess 2016 Levon Aronian won his game against World Champion Magnus Carlsen. Due to this result Aronian joins Carlsen on the top of table and before the last round pair leads the table with 5 points out of 8. Topalov, Kramnik and Vachier Lagrave are just half point behinf the leaders.
Armenian National Teams’ and “Borussia” Dortmund midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan played with plenty of thought about his motherland. In yesterday’s match with Liverpool, Mkhitaryan appeared with an armband of our flag’s colors.
I can’t but respect Robert’s decision. I haven’t discussed the reason with him yet, however, I understand, there are no problems with his decision to leave the team. I should only thank him for all these years which he dedicated to our team. It’s sad, however, we must look ahead and think of how to replace him.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan defeated FIDE president Kirsan Ilyumzhivov in an unforeseen blitz chess game, Narek Nikoghosyan, Assistant to the Press Secretary of the President of Republic of Armenia wrote in his Facebook page.
The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland required the mutual legal assistance of the French judicial authorities in connection with the criminal proceedings against Joseph Blatter.
Arthur Abraham, professional boxer, WBO World super middleweight champion, spoke of the role of a woman on March 8, International Women’s Day, “Armenpress” reports. “Woman’s role in life is very big, especially that of an Armenian woman as a mother, a sister, a wife…Commonly without a woman men would hardly reach serious success, record achievements. Woman […]
Olympic bronze medalist, two-time world champion and three-time European champion Artur Aleksanyan leads the 98kg weight class rankings, reports the Press Office of the National Olympic Committee of Armenia.
FIDE has published the rankings of March 2016. Leader of the Armenian National chess team Levon Aronyan has dropped to the 7th place with 2786 points.Previously he was ranked 4th. The ranking tops world champion Magnus Carlsen with 2851 points. Vladimir Kramkin is on the 2nd place with 2801 points, and Fabiano Caruana is the 3rd, with 2794 points. Among the list of top players is Grandmaster Gabriel Sargsyan, who is ranked 42nd with 2702 points.
At a Borussia Dortmund match one of the fans of Henrikh Mkhitaryan was displaying a poster in the tribune, on which it was written in English and in Armenian: “Mkhitaryan, please give me your jersey, I love you.” The footballer, posting the photo on his Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/MkhitaryanOfficial/?fref=ts), wrote: “Thank you for always being next […]
