The Chess House in Yerevan. Tournaments of different levels are played here, as well as classes with children are held. Tigran Petrosyan is the 9th World Chess Champion!
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Level 11 Local Expert
December 10, 2024
A very decent interior! There are still magnetic boards that I saw in tournament halls only in photographs from the 1970s. Even the practice of moving figures with poles has been preserved, at least this was done at the 2017 Armenian Championship
The House of Chess has nurtured more than one generation of chess players. The building itself is Soviet modernism. It is very upsetting how disfiguring it is, attached to the facade of a new model-Tashir-pizza.
Inside, everything is as it was 30 years ago: parquet, granite, portraits, talented people.
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Level 10 Local Expert
August 27, 2024
I went to see the building, the guard was rude, said that it was only here for children to play and offered to look for a chess opponent on the street …