14:56 12/03/2010

Chess: Levon Aronian to take part in Amber Tournament

Armenian GM Levon Aronian is taking part in the Amber Blindfold and Rapid tournament due in Nice, France March 13-25, 2010. Aronian's opponents are Carlsen, Kramnik, Gelfand, Gashimov, Ivanchuk, Svidler, Ponomariov, Grischuk, Karjakin, Dominguez, Smeets, Armenian Chess Federation reported.  

13:46 12/03/2010

Armenian Chess Players in European Championships

Round 6 of the European Individual Men's & Women's Championships held in Rijeka, Croatia is over now. In Men’s Championship Armenians Samvel Ter-Sahakyan and Hrant Melkumyan running 13th and 17th after Round 5, couldn’t advance further. They lost to Alexander Riazantsev and Ian Nepomniachtchi respectively. Armenian Lilit Galoyan has good performance in Women’s Championship. After winning against Anna Ushenina, she runs 4th with 5 points. Round 6 Men ...

14:04 11/03/2010

Armenian chess players in Rijeka, Croatia

The fifth round of European Men’s and Women’s Championships in Rijeca, Croatia, are finished recording a very important fact as currently neither chess player has a 100% result. In men’s championships Zahar efimenko, Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu and Artyom Timofeyev have 4.5 scores. The best results scored by Armenian chess players have Samvel Ter-Sahakyan and Hrant Melqumyan who occupy 13 th and 17 th positions respectively.   In women’s championship Lilit ...

16:25 10/03/2010

Armenian chess players at Rijeka Championships

  European Individual Men's & Women's Championships are continuing in Croatian Rijeka where Armenian chess players take part. Our chess players registered 4 victories after the 4 th round. Samvel Ter-Sahakyan defeated Kobalia, Davit Petrosyan defeated Bartel, Artashes Minasyan – Zaslavsky, Vahe Baghdasaryan – Zivkovic.   Regretfully, our chess players don’t have leading positions. The highest results in men’s championship scored Robert ...

13:11 09/03/2010

Armenian chess players in European Championships

17 Armenian and several chess players from Armenian Diaspora are taking part in the European Individual Men's & Women's Championships which are being held in Rijeka , Croatia from March 6 to 18, 2010. After the third round Armenian chess players scored some results which don’t allow yet having leading positions. But still Avetiq Grigoryan, Robert Hovhannisyan, Hrant Melqumyan, Gabriel Sargsyan, Tigran L. Petrosyan and Lilit Galoyan may have some successes as ...

14:52 08/03/2010

Boxing: Vic Darchinyan retains the crown

Armenian 34-year-old World Jr. bantamweight champion Vic Darchinyan (34-2-1, 27KO) of Sydney, Australia was the first man to unify the IBF, WBC and WBA title at 115lbs. On Saturday night at the Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage California, boxed to a commanding unanimous decision win over 22-year-old challenger Rodrigo Guerrero (13-2-1, 9KO) of Mexico City. Darchinyan boxed with confidence down the stretch even as Guerrero continued to press forward. Anyway, the unanimous ...

16:39 05/03/2010

Darchinyan vs. Guerrero

“Showtime” is like my home and I look forward to defending my title again on Shotime and fighting in front of my fans at Agua Caliente. This is a good fight for me and a fight where I will showcase all my skills – not just a punch. I feel really good and had a great training camp. I plan to do everything — box, think and stay calm. Guerrero is a good kid and he’s fought a couple good fighters and done very well. There’s no way I’m going to ...

11:59 05/03/2010

Arthur Abraham: “Inside the ring we are all just by ourselves”

  Super Six World Boxing Classic standings leader “King” Arthur Abraham and Andre “The Matrix” Dirrell both took part in a media conference call on Thursday to talk about their Group Stage 2 matchup.   “This is a really big chance for me to be a big star in America . It’s what I’ve been looking for. I really feel that there is so much interest from America and from SHOWTIME and from the journalists in the Super Six. ...

11:55 05/03/2010

Vic Darchinyan to defend his crowns

Popular, hard-hitting Vic “The Raging Bull’’ Darchinyan will defend his WBC/WBA super flyweight crowns against streaking Rodrigo “Gato’’ Guerrero in the main event on a special edition of ShoBox. An Australian-based Armenian, the exciting Darchinyan will be making his fifth consecutive appearance on SHOWTIME and 11th overall. He has scored knockouts in 14 of his last 15 victories. Note that Darchinyan’s victory will allow him fighting ...

16:03 04/03/2010

US snowboarders Amber Stackhouse and Erin Comstock to shoot a film on Armenia

US snowboarders Amber Stackhouse and Erin Comstock, who are in Armenia in the frames of the Sports Envoys project, presented the route they have taken, referred to the mission and plans of their visit to Armenia at a meeting with reporters today. They told Panorama.am reporter they would like to return to Armenia to shoot a film in the future. “Yesterday we had a meeting with the cinema institute representatives and learnt what films are most represented at film festivals in ...