ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Sept 23 2005
A CHESS TOURNAMENT FOR THE CUP OF UN TO TAKE PLACE IN YEREVAN ON
SEPTEMBER 24
YEREVAN, September 23. /ARKA/. A chess tournament for the cup of UN
will take place tomorrow in Yerevan. According to the UN Public
Information Department, 40 young chess players aged between 10 and 12
years old, who will compete with famous Armenian grand masters Smbat
Lputyan, Karen Asryan, Tigran Petrosyan and the RA Champion, Grand
Master Ashot Anastasyan, will take part in the tournament, as well as
chess players – representatives of international and local
organizations and mass media. The Chairman of Chess Federation, RA
Minister of Defense Serge Sargsyan, Chairman of the National
Committee of Physical Education and Sport Ishkhan Zakaryan, the
resident representative of UN in Armenia Consuelo Vidal wil take part
in the tournament dated for the 60th anniversary of the ceremony of
opening of the tournament.
The organizers of the tournament are the UN Yerevan Office, Armenian
Chess Federation, RA Sport Committee, Cafesjian Foundation, UN
Armenian Association. A.H. –0–