  GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan climbs 3rd at World Junior U20 Championships August 7, 2012 - 10:55 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian grandmaster Samvel Ter-Sahakyan beat China’s Yi Wei in Athens-hosted World Junior U20 Chess Championships round 5 to climb to the 3rd place with 4,5 points. Meanwhile, Karen Grigoryan and Vahe Baghdasaryan scored wins against Oliver Mihok (Hungary) and Anton Podolsky (Ukraine) respectively. In the 6th round, Ter-Sahakyan will face off against China’s Yu Yangyi, with Grigoryan and Baghdasaryan to rival Yaroslav Zherebukh (Ukraine) and Aleksandar Indjic (Serbia) respectively. Shushanna Sargsyan lost to Lisa Schut (Netherlands) in Girls U20 5th round. Partner news  Top stories Norway will host Chess World Cup 2013 on August 10 - September 4, 2013, with 4 Armenian players to participate in. Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian is currently 3rd with 4 points, Bulgaria’s Veselin Topalov is 7th with 3 points. European Individual Chess Championship ended in Polish town of Legnica, with 24 chess players winning World Cup qualifications. Gor Minasyan won silver medal, Andranik Karapetyan and Izabella Yalyan both won bronze at Junior World Championships in Lima.   Partner news |  Latest news Brad Pitt’s “World War Z” to open Moscow Film Fest  The fest will feature retrospectives of films by Bernardo Bertolucci and Costa Gavras, as well as a program devoted to Dutch cinema.Wrekin Hill picks up John Malkovich’s “Siberian Education” Based on the novel by Nicolai Lilin, the film is set in the ghetto of Soviet Russia and follows 2 boys who are members of a gang of exiled Siberians.Germans blame Merkel’s stance in eurozone crisis for Eurovision debacle Chancellor Angela Merkel is loathed in parts of Europe for her insisting on painful austerity measures in Greece, Spain and Italy.China’s PM visits India to settle boundary row, boost ties China says Li Keqiang choice of India for his first trip abroad shows the importance Beijing attaches to improving relations with New Delhi. |
