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    2ND INTERNATIONAL CHESS TOURNAMENT CONDUCTED IN NAGORNO KARABAKH

    De Facto, Armenia
    Oct 4 2005

    The International chess tournament opened in Stepanakert. 20 sportsmen
    from Armenia, Russia, the US, Germany, Nederland, China, Spain,
    Finland, Poland, Ukraine, Latvia and Moldova are to participate in
    the event.

    According to De Facto correspondent in Stepanakert, a lot of famous
    chess players are among the participants of the tournament: the US
    champion Hikaru Nakamura, the second chess player of China Bu Ksangjy,
    Alexei Dreev (Russia), Ivan Sokolov (Nederland), Yevgeny Sveshnikov
    (Latvia), Levon Aronyan (Armenia) and others.

    To note, it is the second international chess tournament conducted
    in Stepanakert. The first one was dedicated to the 75 anniversary of
    the 9th world champion Tigran Petrosyan.

    On October 1, in the course of the ceremony of opening the NKR Minister
    of Education, Culture and Sport Kamo Atayan welcomed the tournament's
    participants. "It is the second traditional tournament in the capital
    of independent Nagorno Karabakh. We hope the interest to the ancient
    and eternally young game will increase year by year: the number of
    the tournament's participants will grow, which will contribute to
    the strengthening of sport and not only sport ties between Armenia
    and the countries represented by the participants", noted Kamo Atayan.

    The tournament is conducted according to A and B schemes. By the
    results of the toss - up, the following participants met in the A
    scheme of the tournament: Ashot Anastasyan (Armenia) - Bartholomeo
    Matcheya (Poland), Hikaru Nakamura (the US) - Karen Asryan (Armenia),
    Victor Bologan (Moldova) - Levon Aronyan (Armenia), Ivan Sokolov
    (Nederland) - Alexei Dreev (Russia), Vasily Ivanchuk ( Ukraine) -
    Bu Ksangjy (China).

    The B scheme tournament: Catherina Lagno (Ukraine) - Tigran Petrosyan
    (Armenia), Yevgeny Sveshnikov (Latvia) - Lopes Martinez (Spain), Sergey
    Grigoryants (Russia) - Ervin Lami (Nederland), Beniamin Galstyan
    (Armenia) - Arthur Tchibukhchyan (Armenia) and Arsen Yeghiazaryan
    (Armenia) - Raj Tishberek (Germany).
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