YEREVAN, AUGUST 30, NOYAN TAPAN. Grand Master Smbat Lputian, a World Olympic champion of chess, the Deputy Chairman of the RA Chess Federation, a member of the executive committee of the National Olympic Committee of Armenia, Director of the Chess Republican Academy, got into a car accident with his personal car on August 27. Members of his family were also in the car. The suffered members of the family were moved to the Erebuni hospital of Yerevan. S.Lputian's family members got comparatively mild bodily injuries. The grand master suffered most of all: his ribs were injured. S.Lputian said in the phone conversation with the Noyan Tapan correspondent that his health state is good, and in the doctors' words, he will be fully recovered in 1-2 weeks.

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