Armenian Chess Grandmaster, Vladimir Akopian says chess is way too hard to be taken up as a profession. He says, “I don’t want my boys to be professional chess players, because it’s too hard.” He was ...
PanARMENIAN.Net - Vladimir Akopian, a leading Armenian grandmaster says chess is too “hard to be taken as a career”. "I don't want my boys to be professional chess players, because it's too hard," ...
ST. LOUIS, Mo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Out of a field of the nation’s top chess players, International Master (IM) Alice Lee was named champion in the U.S. Girls' Junior Championship, Grandmaster (GM) ...
The U.S. has a generation-spanning trio of new champs as the U.S. Senior, Junior and Junior Girls Championships were all decided at the Chess Club of St. Louis last week. GM Vladimir Akopian picked up ...
Grandmaster Vladimir Akopian of Armenia made a last-minute dash to beat overnight leader GM Zhang Zong of China to win the Ubeda International Chess tournament in Ubeda, Spain. Akopian, who finished ...
PanARMENIAN.Net - Grandmaster Vladimir Akopian has been named runner-up of the 2025 U.S. Veterans Chess Championship. Akopian delivered an impressive performance, remaining undefeated throughout the ...
Grandmasters dominate 180-player event at Dubai Chess and Culture Club Dubai: Former world championship contender Grandmaster (GM) Vladimir Akopian of Armenia won seven straight games before cruising ...
Vishy Anand brought Vladimir Akopian down to earth in the second round of the Corus Chess Festival at Wijk aan Zee. The Indian Grandmaster ranked three had to fight hard in a Sicilian Defence after an ...
Dubai: Two-time Armenian champion GM Vladimir Akopian and GM Ivan Sokolov of The Netherlands remain tied at 5.5 points each after six rounds of the Dubai Open Chess Championship at the Dubai Chess ...
PanARMENIAN.Net - Dubai Open international chess tournament was completed. Out of 8 Armenian chess players, Vladimir Akopian showed the best performance, having come 11th with 6,5 points to his score.
PanARMENIAN.Net - The 7th round of European Chess Championship was held on March 27 in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, resulting in victory of four Armenian players. Vladimir Akopian beat Estonia’s Kaido Kulaots, ...
PanARMENIAN.Net - Following a draw with Russia's Vladimir Malakhov in the 9th round of European Chess Championship in Plovdiv, Armenia’s Vladimir Akopian scored 7 point and dropped to 7th place. Seven ...
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