TALLINN, JUNE 23, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. An open chess tournament dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the world champion Tigran Petrosian's birth was held in Estonia. Robert Dubrovin and Georg Nero became the winners. According to miasin. ru, some of the participants in the tournament were the same age as Tigran Petrosian, they knew him during his lifetime. They came with photos, documents and souvenirs. Lembit Vakhesaar, who was an arbiter at the famous Karpov-Kasparov match, showed a historical document - the original of Tigran Petrosian's application-complaint at the 1979 Tallinn Tournament, when during the Petrosian-Elvest game the young Estonian player left the hall for 10 minutes. The impression was that the chess players of Estonia had been waiting for this event - the tournament in memory of Tigran Petrosian, and it will certainly have its place in the timetable of Estonia's chess competitions, the paper reported.

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