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YEREVAN, OCTOBER 22, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian chess men team will start the preparations for the forthcoming European and World championships. Armenpress presents the interview with the youngest member of our national chess team Tigran Petrosyan.
- Since 1999 the Armenian chess men team has not got the title of the European champion. What expectations do you have from this tournament?
- As we have not become a champion since 1999, we want to make a hat-trick, as we are the acting champion of Europe and the Olympiad. In the forthcoming tournaments we will try to prove that we are the best and that our successes were not accidental. And we will try to bring joy to our nation. So we will begin the trainings in the coming days. I think we have hard and difficult days ahead.
- The world championship will be held in Turkey. Do you have any concerns about it?
- You know, it has become a tradition for us to win in Turkey. Let us hope that we will show a great performance for this time also. Certainly, there are very strong teams participating in the championship and the struggle will be tense and I guess up to the last day it would not be known anything. For sure we will fight for medals, especially for the golden one. I think we have the right for it and have the potential to fight for the best horizontals. (THE FULL VERSION OF THE INTERVIEW IS AVAILABLE IN ARMENIAN)
Interviewed by Varvara Hayrapetyan