Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Grandmaster, Armenian chess champion Asrian dies at 28

Karen Asrian, an Armenian chess grandmaster who was the ex-Soviet nation's reigning champion and helped it win the 2006 Chess Olympiad, died Monday after suddenly losing consciousness, the Armenian Chess Federation said. He was 28.

Asrian was ranked 92nd by the World Chess Federation, or FIDE.

Apparently feeling ill, Asrian pulled his car into a court yard …

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