Sculpture of Tigran Petrosian is placed at Yerevan Chess House

Sculpture of Tigran Petrosian is placed at Yerevan Chess House

On October 17, 2014 sculpture of the 9th World Chess Champion Tigran Petrosian was placed at Yerevan Chess House. The author of the sculpture is the famous Armenian Sculptor Ara Sargsian (1902-1969). The sculpture which was created in 1965 and was located at Sargsian’s House Museum for about half a century is the present of the sculptor’s relatives to the Armenian Chess Federation. Armchess.am informs about this. 

On behalf of the Armenian Chess Federation, General Secretary of the federation Gaguik Oganessian thanked the sculptor’s family during the ceremony in which President of the Republic of Armenia Serzh Sargsyan and FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov were present.

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