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    TOP ARMENIAN GM KAREN ASRIAN DIES AT 28

    Chessbase News
    http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsi d=4687
    June 9 2008
    Germany

    09.06.2008 - We have received word that one of Armenia's leading
    grandmasters, Karen Asrian, died today. Apparently he suffered a heart
    attack while driving a car. Karen Asrian won the title of Armenia's
    champion for three times. He also earned gold medals during a 2006
    Olympiad held in Turin. His final rating, in April this year, was
    2630. In memoriam.

    Karen Asrian was born on April 24, 1980. He won the national Armenian
    Championship in 1999, 2007 and 2008, and the tournaments of Dubai 2001
    and Stepanakert 2004. In 2006 he won the Chess Olympiad in Turin as
    a member of Armenian team, playing on board three.

    Asrian had a solid playing style, refusing to take much risk on
    board. Combined with good endgame technique this made him an excellent
    team player. His highest rating was 2634 (in October 2006), his final
    rating 2630.

    MSNBC reports that Asrian, apparently feeling ill, pulled his car into
    a courtyard in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, early Monday and lost
    consciousness. An ambulance crew pronounced him dead at the scene,
    possibly of a heart attack. A moment of silence was held in his memory
    before the opening of a speed-chess tournament in Yerevan on Monday,
    after his death was announced by Armenian player Smbat Lputian.
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