2024-04-28 23:05:31
The departure of Levon Aronian was a great loss. He assured me that if the situation in Armenia changes, he will return to our team. The President of the Chess Federation of Armenia, Serzh Sargsyan, said this on May 14 at the Chess House named after Tigran Petrosyan in Yerevan, writes news.am.
According to the president of the FSA, it is difficult to expect such successes in the near future, which happened in the past.
“I assure you that we will do everything so that chess continues to develop in Armenia. Of course, it is difficult to expect such successes that we had before. This is just an opinion, and I will be very happy if this opinion does not come true, but the opposite.
I want our young people to be able to join the national teams and achieve great success individually. I speak like this skeptically, because we have had two big losses in our chess life. Levon Aronian’s transfer to another team is a great loss, although he always remains a friend of our team. He assured me that if the situation in Armenia changes, he will return to our team.
Another loss is the departure of Arshak Petrosyan. He considers that he can no longer provide much support to the national team in the same way as before. From this point of view, we see Arman Pashikyan as the head coach of the national team,” said Serzh Sargsyan.
Let’s remind: Serzh Sargsyan was re-elected as the president of the Chess Federation.