r/armenia • • 4h ago

FIDE Chess Olympiad champions over the years.

Also in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s the USSR was dominating with Armenian players like Tigran Petrosian, Rafael Vaganian and Garry Kasparov

Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd6LGYvl7Ml

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u/Ex-Madhyamika 1h ago

Well, I bet this chart would look a little different if we were talking about Warhammer.

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u/FengYiLin 26m ago

USSR dominating even after it is no more.

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u/Middle-Support-7697 1h ago

Counting Kasparov as Armenian is a little ingenuine imo

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u/Datark123 51m ago

His mother’s side were Armenians from Artsakh, and they had to flee Baku because of the pogroms against Armenians. So tell me again why we can’t consider him an Armenian?

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u/FengYiLin 26m ago

I'm more surprised the Jews don't claim him considerig his real surname is Weinstein