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]]> eddessaknight /blogentry/125597 /blogentry/125597 Sat, 29 Jul 2017 23:17:28 GMT eddessaknight Armenia is chess s perennial overachiever, Levon Aronian, its greatest player, is a swashbuckling throwback.

In 1963, when Petrosian took on the Russian Mikhail Botvinnik for the World Championship, thousands camped out in Yerevan, watching each move relayed via telegraph to a giant demonstration board in the city s Opera Square. Petrosian s victory caused a chess boom in the country, Mikayel Andriasyan, the secretary-general of the A.C.F., told me. In recent years, when Armenia has won the Chess Olympiad, there have been similar celebrations. (Armenia did not compete at last year s Olympiad, because it was staged in the Azerbaijani capital city, Baku: the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict remains unresolved.) Levon Aronian (above picture) played a key role in all of those victories: in 2004, Serzh Sargsyan, a former....

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