Armenian Chess Championship to launch on January 21

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Chess Championship will launch on January 21, with men competition due on January 22-February 4 and women competition due on January 24-February 4.



As international arbiter Julietta Nagarakyan told PanARMENIAN.Net reporter, 10 women, representing Armenian regions, will compete.



Ashot Anastasyan, Zaven Andriasyan, Robert Hovhannesyan, Tigran Kotanjyan, Artur Chibukhchyan, David Kalashyan, Hrant Melkumyan, Tigran Petrosyan and Artashes Minasyan will participate in men's championship.



Participants will compete on a rotational basis, with winners to be included in men's and women's Armenian national teams



Chess is a board game played between two players. It is played on a chessboard, which is a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king, whereby the king is under immediate attack (in "check") and there is no way to remove or defend it from attack on the next move.



The current form of the game emerged in Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from a much older game of Indian origin.