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VTB (Armenia) supported the inter-university Universiade - 2025
... by the Russian-Armenian University. This year, an impressive 18 universities from across Armenia are taking part, with students showcasing their skills in various sports, including futsal, basketball, volleyball, swimming, table tennis, shooting, and chess. In addition to sports, the Universiade features a vibrant cultural program highlighting creative talents through dance, theater, and vocal performances, along with the screening of social videos. For those with a thirst for knowledge, intellectual ...
04/30/2025Armenian chess players win silver medals at world championship in India
Armenian chess players Mariam Mkrtchyan and Emin Ohanyan won silver medals in the individual world championship among 20-year-olds in India's Gandhinagar, the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport reported. YEREVAN, 13 June. /ARKA/. Armenian chess players ...
06/13/2024Fastex to Provide up to 5 Million $FTN to the “Olympionic” Sports Foundation
... to the 3rd places in the Olympic, Paralympic, Sword Olympic Games, sports included in the program of the Olympic Games, as well as international tournaments not included in the Olympic Games, such as sambo wrestling, international checkers, wushu and chess. The 5 million $FTNs have been segregated from the total supply and securely frozen on the blockchain until 2030. The 5 million $FTNs will be methodically unblocked in accordance with a predefined pattern, as detailed in the smart contracts. This ...
02/06/2024Armenian government allocates $1 million to train athletes for Olympics, European and world championships
... for the Olympics, European and world championships. Deputy Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports Arayik Khzmalyan said that AMD 358.353 million from the Reserve Fund of the Government will be provided to 11 athletic federations and the Chess Federation. According to Khzmalyan, thanks to the allocated funds athletes will also take part in competitions and tournaments recognized by the International Olympic Committee, which will allow some of them to qualify for the Olympic Games in Paris ...
06/08/2023Seven Armenian chess players are in FIDE's latest rating of top 100
... top 100 players. They are Gabriel Sargissian - 41st place (2699), the silver medalist of the 2022 Olympics; Hayk Martirosyan - 57th place (26820, World Blitz bronze medalist and Mamikon Gharibyan, 57th place, (2490). FIDE's rating of strongest female chess players includes Elina Danielyan - 35th place, (2431), the winner of the Club European Championships with ASVOe Pamhagen, Austria; Mariam Mkrtchyan - 69th place, (2381), the current World and Europe U18 champion. She tops 100 junior girls rating; Lilit Mkrtchyan - 70th place, (2379) and Anna M. Sarkisian - 85th place (2361). In the country rating, the Chess Federation of Armenia ...
01/03/2023Armenian government releases 557.6mln drams to double payments to winners of championships
The Armenian government will double payments to winners and medalists of Olympic, Paralympic and Sub-Olympic Games, other international competitions in such events as sambo, checkers, wushu, chess. YEREVAN, December 15. /ARKA/. The Armenian government will double payments to winners and medalists of Olympic, Paralympic and Sub-Olympic Games, other international competitions in such events as sambo, checkers, wushu, chess. The rise ...
12/15/2022Armenia’s Mariam Mkrtchyan wins European U-18 Chess Championships in Turkey
Armenian chess player Mariam Mkrtchyan won the European Under-18 Junior Championships in Antalya, Turkey. YEREVAN, November 14. /ARKA/. Armenian chess player Mariam Mkrtchyan won the European Under-18 Junior Championships in Antalya, Turkey. She defeated Ireland's Tricia ...
11/14/2022Chess players from 14 countries will come to Armenia for Yerevan Open 2022
More than 200 high-class chess players will take part in the international tournament "Yerevan Open 2022", which will kick off on October 10. YEREVAN, October 6. /ARKA/. More than 200 high-class chess players will take part in the international tournament "Yerevan ...
10/06/2022Mariam Mkirtchyan wins U-18 world chess championship
Young Armenian chess player Mariam Mkrtchyan has won the world championship in U-18 category before the last round of the competition, reported the Armenian Chess Federation. YEREVAN, September 16. /ARKA/. Young Armenian chess player Mariam Mkrtchyan has won the world championship ...
09/16/2022Armenian chess player Lilit Mkrtchyan wins right to take part in FIDE Women's World Cup
Armenian chess player Lilit Mkrtchyan will take part in the next FIDE Women's World Cup. YEREVAN, September 5. /ARKA/. Armenian chess player Lilit Mkrtchyan will take part in the next FIDE Women's World Cup. She won the right at the European Women's Individual ...
09/05/2022Armenia's Elina Danielyan leads at European Women's Individual Chess Championship
... capital of Prague. Players from four other countries have also won the first three rounds. Armenia's Lilit Mkrtchyan is half a point behind the leaders with 2.5 points. Armenia is represented at the 22nd edition of the European Women’s Individual Chess Championship also by Anna Sarkisyan, Mariam Mkrtchyan, Susanna Gaboyan and Maria Gevorgyan. This year a total of 125 chess players are competing in the championship. The tournament is held in the Swiss system and consists of 11 rounds. The championship started on August 20 and will end on ...
08/23/2022Armenia wins silver at FIDE Chess Olympiad
The 14th-seeded Uzbekistan team won the gold medal while Armenia and India-2 team won the silver and bronze in the Open section of the 44th Chess Olympiad in Indian Chennai, the International Chess Federation (FIDE) said. YEREVAN, August 9, /ARKA/. The 14th-seeded Uzbekistan team won the gold medal while Armenia and India-2 team won the silver and bronze in the Open section of the 44th ...
08/09/2022Ameriabank partners Gyumri Tech Week and acts as main sponsor of Cyber Security Hackathon (video)
... job fair held at the Gyumri Drama Theater. During two days the visitors of the Tech Week had an opportunity to ask the Americans any questions they might have about the job vacancies or simply to taste delicious apples and sweets and try their hand at chess. Watch the video to learn more about Ameriabank's participation in Tech Week. About Ameriabank Ameriabank is Armenia's largest financial institution with over AMD 1 trillion in assets. It is a dynamic, rapidly growing universal bank, offering ...
07/07/2022FIDE's ranking of top 100 players for July has eight chess players from Armenia
... top 100. The ranking of top 100 women players has Elina Danielyan from Armenia, who is current winner of the European Individual Championship (30th, rating 2441), and Anna M. Sargsyan (71st, 2378). There are two Armenian chess players in the junior chess top 100: Artur Davtyan (37th, rating 2520) and Mamikon Gharibyan (60th, rating 2490), and Mariam Mkrtchyan (31st, rating 2285) is among top 100 junior female players. The ranking of the Chess Federation of Armenia for July is 2637 (9th place versus 8th place a month earlier). Magnus Carlsen of Norway continues to lead the world ranking list ...
07/01/2022Nine Armenian chess players are in FIDE’s latest rating of top 100 players
... Yufan Hou (China), Alexandra Goryachkina (Russia) and Koneru Humpy (India). Among the top one hundred young chess players born in 2002 and later, Armenia is represented by Shant Sarkisian (8th), Mamikon Gharibyan (64) and Artur Davtyan (77), and female Mariam Mkrtchyan (26). As for the ranking of the top 157 chess federations, Armenia remains in 10th place. Russia, USA, China, Ukraine, India, Azerbaijan, France, Hungary and Spain are also in the top 10. -0-
02/01/2022Armenia shares 6th-7th places in ranking of GMs born after 1992
Armenia shares the 6th-7th places in a rating of the number of chess grandmasters born in this or that country after 1992. YEREVAN, Jan. 3. /ARKA/. Armenia shares the 6th-7th places in a rating of the number of chess grandmasters born in this or that country after 1992. The ranking is topped by Russia with 37 GMs,...
01/03/2022Top ten Armenian athletes of the year named
... The list includes: Artur Alexanyan - Greco-Roman wrestling (silver medalist of the Tokyo Games) Malkhas Amoyan - Greco-Roman wrestling (world and European U23 champion) Hovhannes Bachkov - boxing (World Championship bronze medalist) Elina Danielyan - chess (European Individual Championship winner) Artur Davtyan - artistic gymnastics (bronze medalist of the Tokyo Games) Varazdat Lalayan - weightlifting (European U23 champion) Arsen Harutyunyan - freestyle wrestling (World Championship bronze medalist) ...
12/21/2021Levon Aronian to play under US flag
Armenia’s leading chess player since the early 2000, GM Levon Aronian, who led the Armenian national team to the gold medals in the Chess Olympiads in 2006, 2008 and 2012 and a two-time FIDE World Cup winner, will play under the U.S. flag starting from December 1, 2021 ...
12/01/2021Armenia's Elina Danielyan wins European Individual Women’s Chess Championship
Armenia’s Elina Danielyan has won the European Individual Women’s Chess Championship in the Romanian city of Iasi beating Estonia’s Mai Narva last Friday. YEREVAN, August 23, /ARKA/ Armenia’s Elina Danielyan has won the European Individual Women’s Chess Championship in the Romanian city of Iasi beating Estonia’s ...
08/23/2021Armenia’s Elina Danielian has chance to win European Women Individual Chess Championship
... Armenia’s women’s champion is sharing the 2-4 places in the standings two rounds before the end of the European Women Individual Chess Championship 2021 that is taking place from 8th-21st of August in Iasi, Romania, In the 9th round on August 18 Danielian ... ... (Georgia) and Natalia Buksa (Ukraine), along with Danielian, are half a point behind. Other Armenian players Maria Gevorkyan and Mariam Mkrtchyan won their games in the 9th round, Anna Sargsyan, Susanna Gaboyan and Siranush Ghukasyan played a draw, while ...
08/19/2021Armenian grandmaster knocks Azerbaijan's Mamedyarov out of FIDE Cup tournament
Armenian grandmaster Hayk Martirosyan has won a ticket to the 4th round of the FIDE Chess Cup tournament, defeating the top Azerbaijani chess player Shakhriyar Mamedyarov in the third round of the tournament. YEREVAN, July 20. /ARKA/ Armenian grandmaster Hayk Martirosyan has won a ticket to the 4th round of the FIDE Chess Cup tournament,...
07/20/2021Armenian prime minister presents the strategy of transforming the country
... worth over $10 billion and 10 thousand operating startups, double the area under forest, win 25 Olympic gold medals. He also said that the Armenian national football team should become the winner of the European or World Championship, that Armenian chess players should win an individual world chess champion title. The country should also work to increase the number of tourists visiting Armenia to 15 million people. Pashinyan also named 16 mega-problems that should be solved within 10 years: to have ...
09/21/2020Yerevan Chess Federation to hold first Yerevan Cup tournament
The Yerevan Chess Federation said it is organizing the first Yerevan Cup chess tournament to celebrate Armenia's Independence Day, marked on September 21, saying also the tournament will become traditional. YEREVAN, September 3. /ARKA/. The Yerevan Chess Federation ...
09/03/2020Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian to play in online Nations Cup
Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian will take part in the FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup tournament as part of the European team, FIDE Director General Emil Sutovsky wrote in a Facebook post. YEREVAN, April 23. /ARKA/. Armenian grandmaster Levon Aronian will take part in the FIDE Chess.com Online Nations Cup ...
04/23/2020Armenian government raises monthly payments to Olympic and world champions
... Education, Science, Sports and Culture Grisha Tamrazyan. The government decided today to expand the list of athletes who are entitled to such payments. The deputy minister said the list will include also Olympic champions and champions of the World Chess Olympiad, as well as prize-winners of the Olympiads. In addition, the list will include champions in Olympic and non-Olympic sports such as ship-modeling, world chess and sambo. “According to the amendments, the amount of payments paid to Olympic ...
03/19/2020Government of Armenia releases 50 million drams for awarding best ten athletes of the country in 2019
... Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that sport is of strategic importance. “I want to draw your attention to the fact that our development strategy until 2050 states that before that time Armenian athletes should win Olympic medals, win the world chess championship, and become a prize winner of the World Football Cup and the European Championship,” he said.($1 - 478.63 dram) .-- 0--
02/20/20201XBet bookmaker office available in Armenia now
... there is no need to think over unnecessary things - it is enough to plunge into the world of your favorite game. 1xBet ensures high coefficients and guaranteed payments, which can always be multiplied on the company's website. Football, wrestling or chess - everybody can place a bet on everything he/she finds interesting. About the website The official website of the bookmaker company 1xBet has 50+ language versions designed for dozen hundred thousand 1xBet everyday players. Players can also ...
01/29/2020Levon Aronian leading in Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz Grand Chess Tour
Armenian chess grandmaster Levon Aronian has claimed a victory in the Saint Louis Rapid & Blitz Grand Chess Tour in St. Louis, the National Olympic Committee of Armenia reported on Wednesday. YEREVAN, August 14. /ARKA/. Armenian chess grandmaster Levon ...
08/14/2019Armenia to host world school chess championship in September
The Armenian resort town of Tsakhkadzor will host the World School Chess Championship on September 18-25 , the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports reported. YEREVAN, August 8. /ARКА/. The Armenian resort town of Tsakhkadzor will host the World School Chess Championship on September 18-25 , the Ministry ...
08/08/2019Pashinyan: Pan-Armenian Games could provide key platform for all-national dialogue
... boasts the largest number of delegates with 86 participants as compared to previous Games. According to the government's press office, Pan-Armenian Games World Committee Chairman Ishkhan Zakaryan introduced the committee members, noting that football, chess, cycling, arm-wrestling tournaments had already started in Artsakh - Askeran, Martakert, Martuni - tomorrow. The Seventh Pan-Armenian Summer Games program features a total of 17 sporting events: 5 tournaments in Artsakh, 12 - in Yerevan. He gave ...
08/07/2019Government releases $133,000 to Chess Federation
The government of Armenia decided today to release $133,300 for the Chess Federation, headed by former president Serzh Sargsyan. Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs Gabriel Ghazaryan said the money will be spent on preparing Armenia’s best chess player Levon Aronyan for fighting for the champion’s title. YEREVAN,...
04/25/2019Armenia’s Central Bank to put into circulation new generation composite banknotes
... Nahapetyan warned that at the initial stage, new banknotes will not be accepted by payment terminals, since this requires technical and software changes. Great Armenia poet Paruyr Sevak will be depicted on banknotes with face value of 1,000 drams, world chess champion Tigran Petrosyan will be depicted on banknotes with face value of 2,000 drams, American Armenian writer William Saroyan on banknotes with face value of 5,000 drams, great Armenian composer Komitas on banknotes with face value of 10,000 ...
11/20/2018Yerevan mayor officially resigns
... administrative district Avan at the age of 27. His late father Andranik Margaryan was Armenia’s prime minister and the leader of the HHK at the time. In February 2014, he defended his PhD in economy. Margaryan is also deputy chairman of the Armenian Chess Federation and the chairman of the Chess Federation of Yerevan. -0-
07/09/2018Yerevan Council of Elders member denies reports about mayor’s resignation
... administrative district Avan at the age of 27. His late father Andranik Margaryan was Armenia’s prime minister and the leader of the HHK at the time. In February 2014, he defended his PhD in economy. Margaryan is also deputy chairman of the Armenian Chess Federation and the chairman of the Chess Federation of Yerevan. -0-
07/09/2018Yerevan mayor reportedly resigns
... administrative district Avan at the age of 27. His late father Andranik Margaryan was Armenia’s prime minister and the leader of the HHK at the time. In February 2014, he defended his PhD in economy. Margaryan is also deputy chairman of the Armenian Chess Federation and the chairman of the Chess Federation of Yerevan. -0-
07/09/2018VTB Bank (Armenia) holds its first Spartakiad
... took place in Park Resort Aghveran hotel compound. More than 500 employees of the bank’s head office and branches took part in the event. They competed in eight sports – football, volleyball, rope war, race, table tennis, arm wrestling, darts and chess blitz. Ivan Telegin, CEO and chairman of the VTB Bank (Armenia) directorial board, addressing the Spartakiad participants and guests, stressed the importance of the event. The key aim of the bank’s Spartakiad is to support healthy lifestyle ...
06/27/2018VTB Bank (Armenia) is general sponsor of International Football Championship for Journalists
... Bank (Armenia) pays special attention to sports and actively supports sport events in Armenia. The bank displays special interest in events with participation of media representatives in Armenia. VTB Bank (Armenia) has recently provided support to a chess tournament for Armenian media representatives. Besides, it attaches great importance to its football team, which is periodically taking part in inter-corporate tournaments and picking up prizes. VTB Bank Armenia (Armenian Savings Bank before June ...
05/23/2018Fourth chess tournament for mass media representatives held under VTB Bank (Armenia) sponsorship
The fourth chess tournament for mass media representatives took place Saturday in Yerevan under the sponsorship of VTB Bank (Armenia) and with support from the Chess Academy of Armenia and Sil Maaza Company, the press office of the bank reported on Monday. ...
02/12/2018Chess championship for media representatives to be held under VTB Bank (Armenia) sponsorship
Another chess championship for media resources will be held in Armenia under VTB Bank (Armenia) sponsorship and with the Chess Academy of Armenia and Sil Maaza Company support. YEREVAN, February 8. /ARKA/. Another chess championship for media resources ...
02/08/2018Levon Aronian’s wife appointed as advisor to Armenian prime minister
Arianne Caoili, wife of Levon Aronian, the two-time Chess World Cup winner, was appointed today as advisor to Karen Karapetyan, Armenian prime minister. YEREVAN, November 21. /ARKA/. Arianne Caoili, wife of Levon Aronian, the two-time Chess World Cup winner, was appointed today as advisor to Karen ...
11/21/2017Moldovan president arrives in Armenia on official visit
... National Assembly and the prime minister. The President of Moldova will visit also the Holy Etchmiadzin, the seat of the head of the Armenian Church, the depository of ancient manuscripts Matenadaran, the Center for Innovative Technologies Tumo, the Chess Academy of Armenia. He will also pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Tsitsernakaberd memorial complex. -0-
11/08/2017Armenian teams perform unsuccessfully at European Team Chess Championship 2017
The Armenian men’s national came 12th with ten points at the European Team Chess Championship 2017 held in Chersonesus, Greece. This is the team’s worst result in the recent years. YEREVAN, November 7. /ARKA/. The Armenian men’s national came 12th with ten points at the European Team Chess Championship 2017 held ...
11/07/2017President visits Vayots Dzor and Syunik provinces
Last Friday President of Armenia, President of the Armenian Chess Federation Serzh Sargsyan, paid a visit to Vayots Dzor province, where he watched the 2nd round of the European Junior Grand Prix Tournament, organized by the Armenian Chess Academy in cooperation with the Armenian Chess Federation and the European ...
10/09/2017Armenia’s Aronian wins FIDE World Cup
... four classic games that ended in draw - 2: 2. The FIDE World Cup is hosted by Tbilisi, Georgia, from September 2nd to 28th. Some 128 players were allowed to play under the knockout system. Aronian has also qualified as a candidate to fight for world chess champion title, which will be held in March 2018 in Berlin, Germany. -0-
09/27/2017Sports school in Noyemberyan resumes work thanks to Stepan Gishyan charity foundation
... point of view of the healthy way of life of the community and the leisure activities of youth and other members of the community. In the renovated school pupils will be able to play basketball, volleyball and badminton, and children with disabilities - chess and checkers. By the end of the year, ACBA-CREDIT AGRICOLE BANK, the French Credit Agricole, the Credit Agricole National Federation and the charity foundation created by the Stepan Gishyan family will sum up the results of the three grant programs....
09/26/2017Armenia’s Aronian reaches world cup final
... final, defeating Vachier-Lagrave of France in the semi-final Armageddon game in Tbilisi, Georgia on Thursday. In the Armageddon game, a player with black pieces gets four minutes to white’s five and needs only a draw to be adjudged the winner. The chess.am reports that Aronian played with white pieces and only a victory would allow him to reach the final. Aronian beat the French chess player Maxim Vachier-Lagrave, despite the fact that everything went to a draw. In the final, Aronian will play ...
09/22/2017Armenia can be reliable and predictable neighbor for European Union – Sargsyan
... said what the country could offer the European Union. In response to a remark that Henrikh Mkhitaryan is a very good “export” and what else Armenia can offer the EU, the president said that there are many famous Armenians like Henrikh Mkhitaryan or chess player Levon Aronian, and Olympic champions, however Armenia can export its wonderful agricultural products to EU. “The IT sector is also developing very rapidly, but first of all, we can be a reliable and predictable neighbor for the EU,” he ...
03/03/2017President: Armenian athletes become symbols for younger generation
... Armenian, every citizen of the Republic of Armenia feels immense pride. However, the important thing in my opinion is the fact that they become the symbols, and younger generations, children follow them. I tell you with confidence that Armenia has become a chess country, because we had Tigran Petrosyan. Football in Armenia is developing; it is true that the championship has not been very successful but I am confident that football in Armenia has a great future because present here are the guys from Ararat-73,...
12/28/2016Sargsyan attends opening ceremony of Open International Chess Tournament in Yerevan
On Saturday, Serzh Sargsyan, Armenia’s president and the head of the country’s chess federation, attended the opening ceremony of the first ever Yerevan Open International Chess Tournament to be held in Armenia on October 1-10, the presidential press office reports. YEREVAN, October 3. /ARKA/. On Saturday, Serzh Sargsyan, ...
10/03/2016VTB Bank (Armenia) football team participated in VTB group’s 9th games
... -more than 900 athletes who competed for team and individual championships. This year, the Games program included 13 sport events: mini-football, volleyball, streetball, all-round, darts, weight-lifting, shooting, country cross, family relay race, chess, mini golf, bowling. Team cheerleaders competed as well. Over the past 13 years the VTB Games have become an important element of VTB's corporate culture. The Group makes every effort to make physical activity and sports an integral part of the ...
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