13:10  ,  July 7, 2016

Team Armenia become aged 50+ chess World Team Championship runners-up

Armenia placed second in the 2016 chess World Team Championship for players aged 50+ and 65+, which wrapped up in Germany.

The last, 9th round in Section 50+, Team Armenia defeated Team Emanuel-Lasker-Gesellschaft (Germany), and earned 26 team points.

Team Germany 1, however, also achieved the same result. But they beat Team Armenia on tiebreak scores and became champions.

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