Karen KOCHARYAN

Competition for votes is becoming stronger. The candidates are using all possible mechanisms for this purpose and also threatening with the names of Putin and Bush during the campaign. Minimum 6 candidates out of the nine candidates say that they are sure in their victory. Such announcements are first of all made for the purpose …

“Free cheese lies only in the trap”People’s saying Last week the US House on Foreign Relations approved the resolution 106, which relates to the recognition of the Armenian Genocide. It’s not excluded that by the lucky hand of the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi the document is included in the full session of the …

“PR is an art to convince others of something, which you don’t believe yourself.” Abba Eban A few people had heard the word PR about 10 years ago. The meaning of the word could figure out only a few dozens of people. Today they use the word PR very often regardless of its relevance. Indeed …

In the political aspect the holidays of the current year principally differ from the previous ones because (a) it is a pre-election year, (b) various western political wings think that it is a “convenient” year for the solution of the Karabagh conflict, (c) starting from January 1 the gas price will be raised, which will …

We can’t make any estimations concerning the Constitutional referendum now. And after this referendum the parliamentary elections are going to be the next important political development in Armenia. Taking into account the abovementioned, we will try to play one game, where the parliamentary powers will play with the powers that are out of the parliament. …

There are good, experienced and bad players in the political field just like in chess. But in both of these two fields all players want to play in high category competitions. A lot of grand masters take part in this kind of competitions. By playing with grand masters some people want to practice themselves, and …

Armenia’s men’s team of chess players placed third in the world team championship held in Israel; Russia and China placed 1st and 2nd. We congratulate our men and wish them future successes. This is one of the few cases when Armenians managed to reach success through teamwork (Ararat-73, two teams of KVN and the men’s …

First of all, I would like to congratulate our team for scoring 7.5 points after playing the 3rd round of the world championship and winning the leading champion Ukraine by 2.5:1.5. The Armenian side currently gives way to the Russians with 8 points. Yesterday, our men had to play in the U.S. As a matter …

Since we are continuing with the chess topic, this time we will try to analyze the game for the parliamentary elections which will take place in Azerbaijan. Judging from the events that took place in Baku these past couple of days, we can say for sure that the cosmopolitan grosmeisters playing this time are Russia …

One of the oldest, most complicated and, at the same time, most interesting games ever created by man is chess. The reason for that is probably because this game is much like our reality, where the “pawn” (soldier) can quickly become a queen or a bishop, while the king seems to be the weakest figure. …