YEREVAN, November 9 (Noyan Tapan). The world youth chess championship proceeds in the Greek town of Heraclion. The winners of the championship will be decided in 5 age-groups, between 10, 12, 14, 16 and 18-year-old chess-players. So, 10 tournaments of boys and girls are simultaneously held and several hundreds of young chess-players participate in them. 21 chess-players representing Armenia participate in the championship. They participate in the tournaments of all age-groups. The majority of the Armenian representatives play successfully and they are among the leading chess-players. After 6 rounds 9 of them gained 4.5 and 3 of them 4 points.

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