Armenian women’s chess team defeated Polish team 2-1 at the tenth round of Chess Olympics in Italy. Siranush Andreasyan brought victory to her team. This is her second consecutive victory.{BR} Lilit Mkrtchyan and Elina Danelyan ended the tenth-round matches with their Polish rivals in draws. Armenia is placed the eighth in the table and has little chance to reach the first three places.

In the 9th tour of World Chess Championship Armenia’s combined team competed with leader Ukraine, which had won all the games before. The match ended in draw, 2:2. {BR} Morozevich and Hakobyan played a draw game on the first chess-board. In the 2nd Rafael Vahanyan won Ruslan Ponomoryov. Smbat Lputyan lost and Gabriel Sargssyan played draw. After the 9th tour Ukraine team is heading the list....

Armenia’s football combined team of under 17 failed in the 1st selection tour of European Championship. Our team sustained defeats in all the 3 selection games. It lost in the games with Turkey and Wales teams by 1:2 both and with Holland team by 1:6. {BR} There were expectations from under 17 team since all the conditions necessary had been provided for it to get prepared for the selection...

In the 6th tour of Olympiad Chess combined team of Armenia won Canada team by 3,5-0,5. Rafael Vahanyan, Smbat Lputyan and Gabriel Sargssyan won victories and Levon Aronyan played a draw game. {BR} In this tour Ukraine won Azerbaijan by 2,5 - 1,5 and Israel team sustained a defeat by 3:1 in the game with Russia. After the 6th tour Armenia’s combined team is the 8th by 16,5 points. Ukraine...

Armenia’s Women team for Chess won the Vietnam team by 2,5-0,5. Lilit Mkrtchyan and Nelly Aghinyan from our team won and Elina Danielyan played a draw game. {BR} China’s team won Russia by 2:1 and consolidated the 1st standing. After the victory in the 6th tour Armenia’s team is now the 8th and has a good opportunity to compete for the 3rd place.

Armenian women’s team scored a 2-1 victory over Greece at the fifth round of World Chess Olympics. Lilit Mkrtchyan won her game and her teammates Elina Danelyan’s and Nelli Aginyan’s games ended in draws.{BR} Armenian women will face Vietnam rivals at the sixth round.

Armenian grand masters suffered the first defeat in World Chess Olympics in Italy. They were beaten by Indian rivals 1.5 – 2.5. Levon Aroyan, Raphael Vahanyan and Smbat Lputyan fought to draw. Gabriel Sargssyan brought defeat to its teammates by losing his game.{BR} After the fifth round, Ukraine tops the table. Armenia was slipped to 12th position. Armenian chess players will face Canadians at the sixth round.

Thanks to Lilit Mkrtchyan’s victory in the 4th tour of Chess Olympiad Armenia’s combined team of women won Spain team by 2:1. Elina Danielyan and Nelly Aghinyan played draw games. {BR} After this victory Armenia’s team reached the 22nd line. Chinese team keeps heading the tournament list. Russia and Ukraine teams follow it. In the 5th tour Armenia’s women team will compete...

In the 4th tour of World Chess Olympiad Armenia’s combined team played a draw game with Bosnia by 2:2. Levon Aronyan, Rafael Vahanyan, Gabriel Sargssyan and Artashes Minasyan played their games draw. {BR} The result can be considered unsuccessful for Armenia since it claims for prize places unlike the rival. Bosnia is the 37th in the Olympiad. The central match of the 4th tour took place...

Armenian football junior team left for Netherlands for Europe Cup’s trials.{BR} The first match for eligibility to participate in Europe Cup will be held Thursday. Armenians will face Turks. After its match with Turkey, Armenia will compete against Netherlands and then against Wells.

Unlike Armenian men, Armenian women perform not successful at the World Chess Olympics in Spain.{BR} The only victory at the third round was scored by Elina Danelyan. German national leads the table. China follows it. Armenia is placed 28th in the table.

After a short break, Armenian premiership was resumed. Kilikia won its match with Banants 3-2.{BR} Kotayk and Mika fought to a 1-1 draw. Punik humbled Shirak 6-1.

Armenian national team claimed a 3-1 victory over Estonian team at the third round of the World Chess Olympics in Spain.{BR} It was the Armenian national’s third consecutive victory in the competition. Armenian grand masters defeated their first-round Mongolian rivals, then, beat Uzbeks at the second round. Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Israel and Bulgaria won their third-round contests as...

The 36th World Olympic Contest among chess players will start Friday in Spain. Vladimir Hakobyan, Levon Aronyan, Raphael Vahanyan, Gabriel Sargssyan, Artashes Minasyan and Smbat Lputyan will represent Armenia at the competition.{BR} Armenia’s team is reckoned among the competition favorites. The only serious rival to our grand masters are Russians. Women’s team is made up of four chess...

On Thursday, Armenian national team coach Bernar Casoni, speaking at a news conference held after Armenian players’ humiliating 0-3 defeat at their 2006 World Cup trials’ match vs. Czech rivals, said he found Armenian soccer players’ performance not so bad. He said Czechs are reckoned among strongest rivals and Armenians did stand the test. {BR} French Casoni pointed some faults...

Czech national soccer team’s coach Karel Bryukner, speaking at a news conference on Thursday after claiming a sweeping 3-0 victory over Armenian national at Wednesday’s match for eligibility for the 2006 World Cup, said Czechs had won the match because performed well-organized.{BR} The coach said his team still has some problems with half-backs, which will be solved as soon as possible....

Competition of “Kremlin Cup” Tennis continues in Moscow. Armenian tennis player Sargis Sargssyan competed with Russia’s representative Nikolai Davidenko and lost by 2:6, 4:6. {BR} Before that Sargssyan won Georgian tennis player. 2004 keeps passing unsuccessful for Sargis Sargssyan. Participating in numerous tournaments he sustains defeats in the 1st or 2nd rounds.

A briefing took place after the match between the youth teams of Armenia and Czechia. Vardan Minasyan, trainer of Armenia’s team, thinks the young football players didn’t manage to regenerate after the previous match causing defeat. Besides, professionalism of some football players was lacking, according to Minasyan. {BR} Czech trainer Ladislav Skorpil said before the game they had sent...

Armenia’s youth team of football held a selection match with the Czechs. In the previous game our team won Finland by 1:0, so there were expectations from this match. But the Armenian team sustained a defeat by 0:4. {BR} Our team keeps be the last in the tournament list, though Finland and Macedonia in the 4th and the 5th lines have as well gained 3 points each.

Football combined team of Czechia will arrive in Yerevan tomorrow at 3:00 PM. The Czechs, who reached to the semi-final in “Euro-2004”, will play with the combined team of Armenia on October 13. The press conference of Karel Brukner, trainer of Czechia team is scheduled at 6:15 PM in the “Republican” Stadium. {BR} After the conference our rival will hold the first training...

As it was informed Armenia’s football combined team lost the game with Finland team by 1:3. Trainer Bernard Cassoni has made some changes in the composition of team. For unknown reasons Arthur Petrosyan, a leading football player didn’t appear in the stadium. {BR} 2 more matches took place in the 1st selection group. Czechia team won Romania by 1:0. Macedonia and Holland played a draw...

World Cup trials match between Armenian and Czech nationals will be held in Yerevan on October 13.{BR}

Vardan Minasyan, trainer of Armenia’s youth combined team has as well published the names of the football players who must get ready for the coming matches. 11 out of 20 football players invited are performing in the main and 2nd teams of “Pyunik”. More 4 players represent “Kotayk” and 3 ones introduce “Banantc”. {BR}

Bernard Cassoni, chief trainer of Football combined team of Armenia has published the list of football players who are to get prepared for Armenia-Czechia match scheduled on October 13 in Yerevan and Finland-Armenia game on October 9 in Finland. {BR} Unlike the previous selection matches, new football players are invited to the combined team this time. Skilled players Armen Shahgeldyan and Hamlet...