Thursday, May 25, 2006

ARMENIAN TEAM’S BEST PARTICIPATION IN THE OLYMPIAD

25 May, 2006
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Armenian Chess team displayed its best participation in the 4th round of the World Olympiad held in Turin and beat the Nigerian team 4:0.

Our chess players Levon Aronyan, Vladimir Hakobyan, Smbat Lputyan and Gabriel Sargsyan celebrated their victory. After the meeting with the Nigerian team Armenia tops the fixture table with 13.5 points alongside with the Russian team having the same index. Armenia occupies the 2nd place with its additional indexes.

By the way, Armenian chess players will meet the Russian representatives in the 5th round. This will be the central and the vital meeting of the Olympiad where the winner will have an opportunity to become a champion though there is much time left by the end of the Olympiad. It is noteworthy that only Armenian, Russian and Dutch teams celebrated the same number of victories in the past four rounds.

Armenian women team also celebrated its victory in the 4th round beating Ecuador 2:1. The decisive point for our team was provided by Siranoush Andreasyan whereas Lilit Mkrtchyan and Elina Danielyan tied their meetings. So far Armenian women team is in the 11th place and will meet the Greek team in the next round.

Note: Above are excerpts from the article. The full article appears here. Clarifications and comments by me are contained in {}. Deletions are marked by [...]. The bold emphasis is mine.

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