{"id":28020,"date":"2010-12-04T15:08:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T13:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=28020"},"modified":"2014-01-05T22:59:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:59:31","slug":"chess-armenia-moves-closer-to-world-youth-olympiad-gold-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/12\/04\/chess-armenia-moves-closer-to-world-youth-olympiad-gold-in-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess: Armenia moves closer to World Youth Olympiad gold in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"

By SUREN MUSAYELYAN<\/p>\n

Armenia\u2019s U-16 chess players scored two important victories on Thursday and will need to preserve their huge lead in the two remaining matches at the World Youth Chess Olympiad in Turkey on Friday and Saturday to take the trophy.<\/p>\n

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The latest 3-1 and 2.5-1.5 victories against Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan-A in rounds 7 and 8 give coach Arsen Yeghiazarian\u2019s team a perfect record of eight wins in as many matches. The other teams beaten by Armenia at the tournament include Turkmenistan-B (4-0), Russia (3-1), Portugal (4-0), Belarus (2.5-1.5), India (3-1), and Turkey-Red (3.5-0.5).<\/p>\n

With 16 points (25.5 pts overall), Armenia holds first place (among 22 teams) – almost unreachable for rivals Russia (11\/21) and Turkey-Red (12\/20.5).<\/p>\n

In the penultimate ninth round Armenia plays Syria. The tournament finishes with Round 10 matches on Dec. 4.<\/p>\n

More information is available at WYCO\u2019s official website http:\/\/wyco2010.tsf.org.tr<\/p>\n

via Chess: Armenia moves closer to World Youth Olympiad gold in Turkey – Chess | ArmeniaNow.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By SUREN MUSAYELYAN Armenia\u2019s U-16 chess players scored two important victories on Thursday and will need to preserve their huge lead in the two remaining matches at the World Youth Chess Olympiad in Turkey on Friday and Saturday to take the trophy. The latest 3-1 and 2.5-1.5 victories against Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan-A in rounds 7 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":28022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,3996],"tags":[4655,4656],"class_list":["post-28020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-armenia","category-sport","tag-chess","tag-chess-olympiad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}