FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov paid a working visit to Armenia.
He visited Chess Academy with Vice President of the Armenian Chess Federation, GM Smbat Lputian and met with the schoolteachers of chess who were passing the training courses.
Chess in Armenia is included in the school curriculum, Lputian told about the Academy’s activities and its main achievements. He shared his proposals on popularizing the distance learning project prepared by highly qualified Armenian specialists. The project is translated into English and it will be soon presented to FIDE.
Ilyumzhinov also met with Serzh Sargsyan and discussed a number of issues.
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