2/23/2021 – The Armenian Championships, open and women’s, are taking place on February 16-28 at the Tigran Petrosian Chess House in Yerevan, Armenia’s capital. After 6 rounds, Hovhannes Gabuzyan and Susanna Gaboyan are the sole leaders of the national events. | Photos: Gevorg Perkuperkayn / ArmenPress

8/25/2020 – A new series has entered the stage with "Guess the right price!". You have to guess the correct price of a chess-related object. We start our journey with four chess sets of different origins, material and obviously — price. Do you have a good feeel of how much the different chess objects can cost? | Photo: VintageChessShop

8/7/2020 – Known for their team camaraderie, Armenia obtained back-to-back gold medals at the 2006 and 2008 Chess Olympiads, played in Turin and Dresden respectively. Levon Aronian, Vladimir Akopian, Gabriel Sargissian and Arthases Minasian played in both events, with Akopian and Sargissian getting undefeated scores on both occasions — and individual gold medals in 2008.

7/28/2020 – Russia, India, USA or China are big countries with extraordinary good chess players. "The Best In..." series takes a look at some of the best players of countries which are far smaller by size and population. Some places are exceptional though, like Armenia. We had the chance to interview one of Armenia's best female players - Lilit Mkrtchian. | Photos: Lilit Mkrtchian

1/9/2020 – The UN General Assembly, by consensus decision, adopted the resolution on December 12th 2019, put forward by Armenia’s permanent mission and co-sponsored by several countries, designating the July 20th as World Chess Day, marking the date in 1924 when the International Chess Federation was established in Paris.

5/28/2019 – Armenia has the most ambitious school chess programme in the world. It recently hosted its third international conference and the first meeting of FIDE´s new Education Commission in the ressort town Tsakhkadsor. STEFAN LOEFFLER attended. | Pictured: The final of the Armenian Championship of Primary Schools took place in parallel nearby. | Photos: Armenian Chess Academy

2/6/2018 – Armenia honours its World Chess Champion Tigran Petrosian with a banknote. The likeness of the 9th World Chess Champion graces the new 2000 dram which has recently been issued for the first time in the country, as part of a new series of notes.

12/3/2017 – After winning the FIDE World Cup, Levon Aronian sat down for an in depth interview published by the Champord Newspaper and conducted in Armenian. Meri Grigoryan painstakingly translated the full 43-minute conversation between Levon and Mark Grigoryan (no relation to Meri!), which we shared with Champord to subtitle the original video on YouTube. Enjoy both the video and the complete transcript!

10/16/2017 – World number two Levon Aronian and Arianne Caoili were married on September 30th, 2017, in Yerevan, Armenia. It was a Christian wedding ceremony held in one of the most ancient churches of the country. The most important guest at the wedding was Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan along with first lady Rita Sargsyan. We have official pictures of the wedding exclusively sent to ChessBase and also a few videos to give you a feel of the celebrations, including Levon singing! | Photo: Alisa Studios, Los Angeles

8/10/2015 – In this final part of his articles Vidit Gujrathi tells us about his experience of playing at this exciting event. His favourite game was a crazy battle with 14½-year-old chess phenom Samuel Sevian! Vidit has annotated it with great enthusiasm, giving us insights into the thinking of 2600+ player. His report includes pictures, personal experiences and Bollywood music in this huge report.

8/6/2015 – In our previous report this event we brought to you analysis, pictures and an interview of the winner Jan Krzysztof Duda. Now we have the talented Indian GM Vidit Gujrathi (2643) tells us what it was like being a defending champion, how he prepared for the event – and how he blundered into a shocking mate in one in a better position, but came back to win the next round!

7/31/2015 – The annual “Lake Sevan 2015” tournament was held in Martuni, Armenia. The ten player round-robin event had an average Elo of 2617, with most of the players very young and still in their developing phase. It was won a 17-year-old Polish GM with a score of 6.0/9 and a 2736 performance. We bring you an extensive multi-part report with indepth analysis of some very exciting games..

3/20/2015 – Tsaghkadzor, the "Valley of Flowers", is a small touristy town in Armenia, with barely 3000 people. But it is big on tourism and has beautiful hotels. In April the five-star Golden Palace will host teams from Armenia, China, Cuba, Egypt, Israel, Hungary, India, Russia, Ukraine, USA in what is sure to be a very enjoyable event. Visitors are welcome, and as a chess holiday the trip is a real bargain.

1/28/2015 – With a rating average of 2541, the National Championship of Armenia was a very strong event. Bottom seed Arman Mikaleyan led well past the mid-way mark. With just two rounds left he slipped, giving Karen Grigoryan the chance to race ahead and win the Championship. In the women’s section it was Susanna Gaboyan who took the title. Report with game analysis.

8/14/2014 – 23 years ago a young Indian grandmaster took part in one of the strongest events ever, together with nine other top players, all Russian speaking. He won with 6.0/9 points. The player was Viswanathan Anand. Last week, at another very strong event in Armenia, with nine Russian speaking players and one Indian GM, Vidit Santosh Gujrathi, it was déjà vu all over again.

3/12/2014 – Last week we published a portrait of Armenian World Championship candidate Levon Aronian. English journalist Dominic Lawson had interviewed him for the British cultural and political monthly "Standpoint". Lawson's article contained a reference to a very sensitive historical issue between Turkey and the Armenian minority in 1915. The Turkish Chess Federation sent us the following statement.