How can Armenian chess players be ignored in Chess Olympiad hosted in Baku. President of Russian Chess Association

YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 12, ARMENPRESS: President of Russian Chess Association Ilya Levitov has noted in the official web site of their Association that he can not imagine how the issue of the participation of Armenian Chess players in Chess Olympiad 2016 hosted in Baku is going to be solved.

Reports Armenpress citing e3e5.comweb site. Levitov has mainly noted that Armenaians have 3 gold medals from the last 4 Olympiads ,, and this team is going to not participate in Olypiad”?

He noted that Armenian representatives were against holding the tournament in Baku and stressed that they would not go to Baku, during Executive Committee meeting of the International Chess Federation.

,, We must understand Armenian position. This is а ,,deadlock” situation and hopefully this conflict would be settled till 2016" said Ilya Levitov.

Gagik Hovhannisian, press secretary of Armenian Chess Federation, informed that besides Baku there were other alternatives as well: Talin and Albena. And what’s about Levon Aronian he has declared that they are not going to participate in the tournament hosted in Baku.