photo from armenianow.com
Here's our team:- Levon Aronyan
- Vladimir Hakobyan
- Gabriel Sargissian
- Tigran L. Petrosyan (who was my classmate for some short period)
- Artashes Minasian
Thank you Tigran and others!
And here's a nice photo report from the finals.
...and if you watch statistics of winners by each year in the wikipedia, you'll notice that USSR and post-soviet countries were almost in no competition for the recent decades.
For the second consecutive Olympiad, top-seed Russia failed to take a medal. From 1952 to 2004, they (and their predecessor the Soviet Union) never finished below second place. (Guardian)
2 comments:
Wow! Cool. :) my congratulations! To win a Chess Olympiad - it's quite difficult.. One must be very clever. Now I know, that not only Jews can be called the smartest ones, Armenians too ;)
Chess is pretty hard to master. You always have to predict how your opponent will react. Yay for the Armenian team. I wonder why it is that the former USSR countries do so well in chess? Maybe it's that good old communist way of thinking, haha.
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