KHACHATUR ABOVYAN ARMENIAN STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY

Rector of Armenian State Pedagogical University, Rouben Mirzakhanyan, today handed over certificates and prizes to the winners of the Inter-university Chess Championship.

 

The championship featuring the University professors consisted of five rounds which were held from March 13 to 16 under the rules of rapid chess, Swiss-system tournament and circular chess rules.

 

 

After summarizing the results of women's tournament, Ani Hovhannisyan, an employee of the University Museum, took the first place with two points. Librarian Siroush Aslizyan, and lecturer of the Chair of Native Language and its Teaching Methods after Ashot Ter-Grigoryan, Eva Mnatsakanyan, came second and third respectively.

 

 

Each of the male participants was striving to win the first prize in the intense fighting but the name of the winner was announced only in the last fifth round.

 

Armen Avagyan, a lecturer of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, took the first place, scoring five points.  Vagharshak Matikyan, Lecturer of the Faculty of History and Jurisprudence, and Garik Yeghiazaryan, Head of the Chair of General Physics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, came accordingly second and third, with four points each. 

 

Congratulating the winners, International Grandmaster and Head of the Chair of Chess and Sports, Smbat Lputyan, noted that as a friendly sport, chess helps strengthen and warmify the relations between the employees.  

 

Tournament referee Samvel Misakyan, a lecturer of the Chair of Chess and Sports, is convinced that similar tournaments increase the interest towards the royal game.  “The Pedagogical University is the only university in Armenia where chess is included in the curricula. Chess classes are held for our students twice a week. I do believe that the classes will help train their minds, logic, intellectual skills, at the same time promoting the quality of education," he said.

 

 

Last year, the first inner-university chess championship was held at the Pedagogical University which featured eight teams from the ten faculties. In the near future the University’s chess team will participate in inter-university championships. 

 

 

The Inter-university Chess Championship was organized at the initiative of the Chair of Chess and Sports and Trade Union.