YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 14, ARMENPRESS. Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on February 14 sent a congratulatory letter to chess player Smbat Lputyan on his 60^th birthday, wishing him good health, happiness, as well as new significant achievements in professional and public activity, the Presidential Office told Armenpress.

“You, as a four-time champion of Armenia, winner of the Turin World Olympiad, have a great contribution to the development and popularization of the Armenian chess.

As a founder-president of the Chess Academy of Armenia you carry out a grateful and important work the results of which are already visible”, reads the President’s congratulatory letter.