  GM Samvel Ter-Sahakyan 3rd at World Junior U20 Championships August 14, 2012 - 12:24 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian grandmaster Samvel Ter-Sahakyan beat Conrad Holt in Athens-hosted World Junior U20 Chess Championships round 11. The player scored 8,5 points to climb to the 3rd place. Meanwhile, Vahe Baghdasaryan scored a win against Belarusian Vladislav Kovalev, with Karen Grigoryan losing to China’s Yi Wei. Shushanna Sargsyan tied a game vs. Lithuania’s Batkovskyte Dominyka in Girls U20 round 11. 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 Artsakh President attends Berdzor town 21st anniv. liberation events  Bako Sahakyan noted the liberation of Berdzor town as an important military, political and psychological victory.Weekly digest of foreign currency deals Deals amounting to USD 12,800,000 at an average price of 416.75 /USD 1 were concluded at NASDAQ OMX Armenia.200 Azeri ceasefire violations reported May 12-18 200 ceasefire violations by the Azeri armed forces were reported at the line of contact between Nagorno Karabakh and Azerbaijan.Gunmen kill Iraqi police officer's family The recent spike of violence has raised fears that the country might be heading to a new round of sectarian violence. |
