Topic: chess

LOUIS, Missouri — GM Levon Aronian won his maiden title at the 2024 American Cup on March 21 at the St. Louis Chess club. He defeated GM Wesley So only[...]

LOUIS, Missouri (Guardian) — The 2022 Champions Showdown 9LX (Fischer Random) in St. Louis proved a horror show for Garry Kasparov, who in his prime as world champion from 1985[...]

YEREVAN (PanARMENIAN.Net) — Armenia’s leading grandmasters will not travel to Azerbaijan to participate in the Chess World Cup to be held in Baku from July 30 to August 24, Vice[...]

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan (PanARMENIAN.Net) — Armenian grandmaster Gabriel Sargissian came in the third at the international tournament Rustam Kasymzhanov Cup which wrapped in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on March 29. With a total[...]

YEREVAN — Not everyone in life finds their calling, but for 15-year-old Emin Ohanyan, chess has always been an essential part of his existence. His chess journey started at the[...]

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[...]

CHENNAI, India — The Armenian chess squad defeated India 2.5:1.5 in the eighth round of the World Olympiad that continues to take place in India. With ties on the 2nd,[...]

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).[...]