Yerevan/Mediamax/. The Chairman of the Board of the Russian Chess Federation (RCF), Ilya Levitov, thinks that the Armenian team won three of four last Chess Olympiads thanks to the team spirit.
The most important thing in team tournaments is the psychological training and the team spirit, said Ilya Levitov in an interview to “Kommersant”.
“We met the Armenians in the sixth round and Vladimir Kramnik defeated the leader of the Armenian team Levon Aronyan. The rest Armenian chess players are rated much lower than ours but they came together and snatched a draw in the end. This is the team spirit, when every grandmaster plays for himself and for his friend, thanks to which the Armenian team won three of four last Olympiads,” the Russian specialist said.
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