Topic: Chess Olympiad

SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan — Armenia’s national teams, both Open (men) and Women’s, won bronze medals at the Chess Olympiad held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. However, these were not the tournament’s overall bronze[...]

WASHINGTON — Before the Chess Olympiad started in Chennai, India, on July 28, the Armenian grandmaster (GM) Tigran Petrossian, who happened to share the same name as the 9th world[...]

CHENNAI, India — On Sunday, August 7, the two, so far, undefeated teams of the Olympiad taking place in India — Armenia, and Uzbekistan, played against one another. The latter[...]

WASHINGTON — In the past years of the 21st century, Armenia’s national chess squad won the most prestigious international chess tournament, the Olympic games, three times (2006, 2008, and 2012).[...]