2ND INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT CONDUCTED IN NAGORNO KARABAKH
De Facto, Armenia
Oct 4 2005
The International chess tournament opened in Stepanakert. 20 sportsmen
from Armenia, Russia, the US, Germany, Nederland, China, Spain,
Finland, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia and Moldova are to participate in
the event.
According to De Facto correspondent in Stepanakert, a lot of famous
chess players are among the participants of the tournament: the US
champion Hikaru Nakamura, the second chess player of China Bu Ksangjy,
Alexei Dreev (Russia), Ivan Sokolov (Nederland), Yevgeny Sveshnikov
(Latvia), Levon Aronyan (Armenia) and others.
To note, it is the second international chess tournament conducted
in Stepanakert. The first one was dedicated to the 75 anniversary of
the 9th world champion Tigran Petrosyan.
On October 1, in the course of the ceremony of opening the NKR Minister
of Education, Culture and Sport Kamo Atayan welcomed the tournament’s
participants. “It is the second traditional tournament in the capital
of independent Nagorno Karabakh. We hope the interest to the ancient
and eternally young game will increase year by year: the number of
the tournament’s participants will grow, which will contribute to
the strengthening of sport and not only sport ties between Armenia
and the countries represented by the participants”, noted Kamo Atayan.
The tournament is conducted according to A and B schemes. By the
results of the toss – up, the following participants met in the A
scheme of the tournament: Ashot Anastasyan (Armenia) – Bartholomeo
Matcheya (Poland), Hikaru Nakamura (the US) – Karen Asryan (Armenia),
Victor Bologan (Moldova) – Levon Aronyan (Armenia), Ivan Sokolov
(Nederland) – Alexei Dreev (Russia), Vasily Ivanchuk ( Ukraine) –
Bu Ksangjy (China).
The B scheme tournament: Catherina Lagno (Ukraine) – Tigran Petrosyan
(Armenia), Yevgeny Sveshnikov (Latvia) – Lopes Martinez (Spain), Sergey
Grigoryants (Russia) – Ervin Lami (Nederland), Beniamin Galstyan
(Armenia) – Arthur Tchibukhchyan (Armenia) and Arsen Yeghiazaryan
(Armenia) – Raj Tishberek (Germany).