Armenia’s Hovhannes Gabuzyan and Shant Sargsyan won silver medals at Slovenia-hosted World Youth Chess Championship in U-18 and U-10 categories respectively.

Gabuzyan has scored 7 wins out of 11 possible, finished 3 games in a tie and lost once to gain a total of 8,5

Sargsyan scored 9 wins and 2 ties to finish 2nd.

At the championship, Armenia was represented by 16 players in U-8, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18 age categories.