Armenian IM Valentin Panbukchian (Bulgaria) scored 7 points out of 9 and shared the 2nd-3rd places with GM Azer Mirzoev (Azerbaijan) in the open which was held in Varna. Panbukchian was only half a point behind the winner GM Dmitri Komarov (Ukraine).

54 chess players participated in the tournament.
 

GMs Arman Pashikian and David Arutinian had the best results among the Armenian chess players in the international tournament which was held in Tbilisi.They scored 6,5 points each out of 9 and took the 11th and 13th places respectively among 208 participants.

Georgian grandmaster Bahadur Jobava took the first place with 8 points.
 

Results of Round 8
Petrosian, Tigran L - Bauer, Christian        1-0
Fressinet, Laurent  - Aronian, Levon          1-0
Akopian, Vladimir   - Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime ½-½
Lautier, Joel       - Sargissian, Gabriel     0-1

Results of Round 7
Aronian, Levon      - Bauer, Christian        1-0
Fressinet, Laurent  - Akopian, Vladimir       1-0
Sargissian, Gabriel - Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime ½-½
Lautier, Joel        - Petrosian, Tigran L    0-1

Results of Round 6
Sargissian, Gabriel     - Fressinet, Laurent  1-0
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime - Petrosian, Tigran L ½-½
Aronian, Levon          - Lautier, Joel       ½-½
Bauer, Christian        - Akopian, Vladimir   ½-½

Results of Round 5
Akopian, Vladimir       - Lautier, Joel       1-0
Petrosian, Tigran L     - Fressinet, Laurent  1-0
Bauer, Christian        - Sargissian, Gabriel 1-0
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime - Aronian, Levon      ½-½

Final Standing
1. Armenia 19,5
2. France  12,5 

You can follow the games of the France-Armenia match on our website on 24 and 25 June, 2009, starting from 17:00 (Yerevan time). Online
 

Results of Round 4
Maxim-Vachier Lagrave - Vladimir Akopian    ½-½
Levon Aronian         - Laurent Fressinet   1-0
Christian Bauer       - Tigran Petrossian L 0-1
Gabriel Sargissian    - Joel Lautier        ½-½

Results of Round 3
Vladimir Akopian      - Laurent Fressinet  ½-½
Tigran Petrossian L   - Joel Lautier       ½-½
Maxim-Vachier Lagrave - Gabriel Sargissian ½-½
Christian Bauer       - Levon Aronian      ½-½

Results of Round 2
Vladimir Akopian    - Christian Bauer       ½-½
Tigran Petrossian L - Maxim-Vachier Lagrave 0-1
Laurent Fressinet   - Gabriel Sargissian    ½-½
Joel Lautier        - Levon Aronian         ½-½

Results of Round 1
Joel Lautier       - Vladimir Akopian      0-1
Gabriel Sargissian - Christian Bauer       ½-½
Laurent Fressinet  - Tigran Petrossian L   0-1
Levon Aronian      - Maxim-Vachier Lagrave ½-½

Team Standing
1. Armenia 9,5
2. France  6,5 

The rapid match between the national teams of France and Armenia with the support of "Armavia" company will be held in Paris on 24-25 June, 2009. The members of the Olympic champion Armenian team are Levon Aronian, Vladimir Akopian, Gabriel Sargissian and Tigran L. Petrosian. The composition of the French team is as follows: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Laurent Fressinet, Joel Lautier, Christian Bauer.

Standing After Round 6
1. Jobava Baadur   5
2. Pashikian Arman 5
3. Arutinian Davit 5
7. Petrosian Davit 5
Total: 206 chess players.
 

This book by Gaguik Oganessian (Yerevan, 2009) is dedicated to the appearances of "Mika" chess team in European Club Cups. Levon Aronian, Magnus Carlsen, Boris Gelfand, Gabriel Sargissian, Tigran L. Petrosian, Maia Chiburdanidze, Elina Danielian, Lilit Mkrtchian and other famous grandmasters have played from "Mika".

Chess lovers, who wish to get this book, can contact us with armchess@arminco.com
 

On June 17, 2009 the President of the Republic of Armenia, the president of the Armenian Chess Federation Serzh Sargsyan laid flowers at the memorial of the great chess player, World Chess Champion Tigran Petrosian who would turn eighty on June 17. The prime minister of the Republic of Armenia, the vice-president of the Armenian Chess Federation Tigran Sargsyan, chess players, chess lovers also respected the memory of the World's 9th Champion.
 

The 80th anniversary of the birth of the genius Armenian chess player, the 9th World Champion Tigran Petrosian is today, on 17th June, 2009.
 

The Champion of Armenia "Mika" Chess Club. From left: Ara Minasian, David Karatorossian, Sargis Manukyan, Zaven Andriasian, team captain Ashot Vardapetian, Gabriel Sargissian, Levon Babujian, Tigran Petrosian (Arman Pashikian is not present in the picture).

"Mika" Chess Club took the title of the champion in the 2009 Men's Club Championship of Armenia which was held in Yerevan.

Final Standing
1. Mika          6 12
2. Chess Academy 4  9
3. Bank King     2  9
4. Kotayk        0  6
 

Arman Pashikian, Tigran Kotanjian, Giorgi Bagaturov have scored 2, David Arutinian, Levon Babujian, Gevorg Harutjunyan - 1,5, Davit Petrosian, Suren Poghosyan, Vladimir Kabajian, Aghasi Inants, Vardges Tovmasian, Alexi Ter-Karapetian, Armen Ter-Karapetian, Sergei Chobanyan - 1 points each after the two rounds of the international open which is being held in Tbilisi, Georgia.

208 chess players take part in the tournament.
 

GM Sergei Movsesian scored 8 points out of 9 and solely took the first prize in the rapid tournament which was held in Hustopece, Czech Republic.

146 chess players, including 20 grandmasters, participated from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Russia and Serbia.
 

GM Melikset Khachiyan (USA) and IM Andranik Matikozian (Armenia) scored 4,5 points each out of 6 and shared the 1st-4th places with Enrico Sevillano and Gohn Daniel Bryant (USA) in the Lina Grumette Memorial.

40 chess players took part in the tournament.
 

Final Standing
 1. Khotenashvili Bela  7
 2. Javakhishvili Lela  7
 3. Muzychuk Anna       6,5
 7. Galojan Lilit       6
12. Mkrtchian Lilit     5,5
19. Andriasian Siranush 5
Total: 57 chess players.
 

WGMs Lilit Galojan, Lilit Mkrtchian, WIM Siranush Andriasian have scored 5 points each out of 8 before the last round of Maia Chiburdanidze Cup which is being held in Tbilisi, Georgia. The leader is WGM Bela Khotenashvili (Georgia) with 6,5 points.
 

Aleksan Manukian won the title of Armenian Senior Champion 2009. Ashkhen Sanojan is Armenian Women's Senior Champion. The tournaments were held in Yerevan.
 

WGM Lilit Galojan has scored 5, WGM Lilit Mkrtchian 4,5, WIM Siranush Andriasian - 4 points out of 7 in Maia Chiburdanidze Cup which is being held in Tbilisi, Georgia. The leader is WGM Bela Khotenashvili (Georgia) with 6 points.

There are two rounds left before the end of the tournament.
 

WGM Lilit Galojan has scored 4 points out of 6, WGM Lilit Mkrtchian and WIM Siranush Andriasian - 3,5 points each in Maia Chiburdanidze Cup which is being held in Tbilisi, Georgia. The leaders are WGM Bela Khotenashvili and Nana Dzagnidze (Georgia) with 5 points each.

There are three rounds left before the end of the tournament.
 

GM Gabriel Sargissian scored 9,5 points out of 12 and shared the 1st-2nd places with GM Giorgi Kacheishvili (Georgia) in the blitz tournament which was held within the bounds of Las Vegas festival.

37 chess players took part in the event.
 

WGM Lilit Galojan has scored 3,5 points out of 5, WGM Lilit Mkrtchian - 3, WIM Siranush Andriasian - 2,5 points in Maia Chiburdanidze Cup which is being held in Tbilisi, Georgia. The leader is WGM Anna Muzychuk (Slovenia) with 4,5 points.

There are four rounds left before the end of the tournament.
 

WGM Lilit Mkrtchian, WGM Lilit Galojan have scored 3 points each out of 4, WIM Siranush Andriasian - 2,5 points in Maia Chiburdanidze Cup which is being held in Tbilisi, Georgia. The leader is WGM Bela Khotenashvili (Georgia) with 4 points.

There are five rounds left before the end of the tournament.
 

Final Standing
 1. Akobian Varuzhan     5
 2. Sevillano Enrico     5
 3. Van Wely Loek        4,5
 4. Sargissian Gabriel   4,5
 5. Petrosian Tigran L.  4,5
14. Matikozyan Andranik  4,5
Total: 89 chess players.
 

Armenian GMs Tigran L. Petrosian, Gabriel Sargissian and GM Zviad Izoria (Georgia) scored 5,5 points out of 6 and shared the 1st-3rd places in the rapid tournament which was held in Las Vegas Chess Festival. Petrosian is the first and Sargissian is the second with tie-break.

116 chess players took part in the tournament.
 

WGM Lilit Mkrtchian, WGM Lilit Galojan, WIM Siranush Andriasian have scored 2,5 points out of 3 in Maia Chiburdanidze Cup which is being held in Tbilisi, Georgia.They are only half a point behind WGM Bela Khotenashvili (Georgia) and WGM Mariya Muzychuk (Ukraine).

53 chess players are participating in the tounament.
 

Standing
1. Van Wely Loek       3,5
2. Sargissian Gabriel  3,5
3. Petrosian Tigran L. 3,5
7. Akobian Varuzhan    3,5
Total: 89 chess players.
 

Results
Molner  - Sargissian 0:1
Akobian - Tayar      1:0

Standing
1. Van Wely Loek      2
2. Sargissian Gabriel 2
3. Bareev Evgeny      2
7. Akobian Varuzhan   2
 

Results
Sargissian - Graves 1:0
 

Armenian GMs Gabriel Sargissian, Tigran L. Petrosian, Varuzhan Akobian are taking part in the traditional National open with prize fund 75.000 USD, which began in the big hall of the South-Point hotel-casino of Las Vegas on 5 June, 2009.
 

WGM Lilit Mkrtchian, WGM Lilit Galojan and IM Siranush Andriasian will take part in the Maia Chiburdanidze Cup which will be held in Tbilisi, Georgia, from 5 to 13 June, 2009. In this women's event which will be by Swiss System and have 9 rounds the opponents of Armenians will be chess players from Georgia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Romania.
 

Rapid match between the national teams of France and Armenia will be held in Paris on 24-25 June, 2009. The members of the Olympic champion Armenian team are Levon Aronian, Vladimir Akopian, Gabriel Sargissian, Tigran L. Petrosian and Artashes Minasian. The composition of the French team is as follows: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Laurent Fressinet, Joel Lautier, Christian Bauer.

The organizer of the match is French company Modd' Ailleurs (responsible: Vartan Kaprielian) together with Chess Federations of Armenia and France.
 

Armenian FM Movses Movsisyan (USA) scored 5 points out of 7 and took the 7th place among 77 participants in the open which was held in Stillwater, Oklahoma.

GM Sergey Kudrin (USA) took the first prize with 6,5 points.
 

Armenian WGM Evgeniya Doluhanova scored 7,5 points out of 9 and became the women's champion of Ukraine, 2009 in the tournament which was held in Yevpatoria.

WGM Diana Arutyunova and WIM Ludmila Aslanian scored 5,5 points each and took the 7th and 9th places respectively among 41 chess players.
 

Artur Chibukhchian (Armenia) fulfilled the grandmaster norm for the 3rd time in the international tournament which was held in Gyumri, Armenia.
 

Armenian young chess players had great success in the youth championship of Lebanon which was held in Beirut. Razmik Ognaian (B18), Zhirayr Ognaian (B20), Qristel Hovsepian (G10), Meghri Kirakosian (G18) became champions, Hrak Glpozian (B12) and Narek Najarian (B14) took the second, Karen Khaloian (B8), Karo Khavlujian (B12) and Hovsep Najarian (B16) - the third places.