King’s gambit
In chess there is an opening called “King’s Gambit”. It is one of the oldest of openings (chess openings are the moves that are played in the initial phase of the game, usually up to 12-15 moves), and as the name suggests, this opening is also very risky and is usually avoided by grandmasters and chess experts. Now, you may ask yourself, why in the world are you reading about a chess opening? Well, for one, it is related to chess and you’re reading the newly opened section on Chess on blogrel.com, but for the sophisticated audience that frequents this site, that answer won’t suffice. So here’s the other answer: by taking on this responsibility I’m “gambitting” in a way, and because I am not a “grandmaster” at writing or being a reporter, I can gambit!
Before I begin, let me say that I will report on chess events that are directly related to Armenia and chess players of Armenian decent. With that rather long and cumbersome introduction let’s get to work.
The first event that I’ll cover is the World Junior Chess Championship.
As a background, that title has been held by two fellow Armenians: in 1991 it was the young Vladimir Akopian, then Levon Aronian in 2002. Thus far the Armenians have produced in total: two “regular” world champions (Tigran Petrosian and Garry Kasparov) and recently two juniors’ champion (Vladimir Akopian and Levon Aronian).
The current championship is taking place in Istanbul. The Armenians are represented by Levon Babujian. He’s currently in 8th place and there is still plenty of playing to go. You can follow the match by visiting: http://www.tsf.org.tr/worldchess/index.htm
I will update you every few rounds, or if anything significant occurs.
But for now, let me again extended a warm welcome to all of you and a big “thank you” to the Blogrel admins for initiating this opportunity!
Here’s Levon Babujian probably thinking: “When is Blogrel going to start covering chess seriously?” Think no more, Mr. Babujian… Blogrel’s here!
I’m glad we can make Mr. Babujian happy.
PS, shouldn’t he be thinking about his next 5 moves?
Comment by Katy — 11/14/2005 @ 12:34 pm
Babujian lost to Azerbaijan’s Shakriyarov yesterday and Baku’s infamous Zerkalo.com in a continuing tradition of anti-armenian hate mongering had this to say: “shakriyar mamedyarov won a very important battle over his armenian collegue and not just in terms of the tournament.” Go figure.
Comment by artyom — 11/15/2005 @ 6:51 am
Shakhriyarov is still leading the tournament… Babujian’s loss was unfortunate, but he’s poised to play another Azeri ’til the tournament is over, since Azerbaijan seems to have sent everyone who knows how to move the chess pieces to Istanbul…
Comment by Levon — 11/16/2005 @ 3:58 am
>> Baku’s infamous Zerkalo.com in a continuing
>> tradition of anti-armenian hate mongering had this
>> to say: “shakriyar mamedyarov won a very important
>> battle over his armenian collegue and not just in
>> terms of the tournament.” Go figure.
You call that anti-Armenian hate mongering?
Anyway, most of Azerbaijan’s top players happen to be under 20, so it seems logical that they’re sent to Istanbul.
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