Nonna Karakashyan
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Nonna M. Karakashyan is first Armenia
n woman awarded with FIDE title of International Arbiter
(1992). She is a chess
player and coach.
Her last name may also be spelled as Karakashian.
Nonna Karakashyan was a student of Honoured Trainer Suren Abramian. She was three-time women chess champion of Azerbaijan (1961,1963,1964) and national team member in 1955-1964. She earned a Bachelor in Engineering degree.
In 1979 Karakashyan founded "Trudovye Reservy" chess club in Baku, Azerbaijan, the very first chess club in the USSR for students of vocational technical school
s.
In 1991-1992 Nonna Karakashyan held a position of a Deputy Director of Executive Committee of Armenian Chess Federation
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Nonna Karakashyan was Chief Arbiter of Finale tournament of the 51st USSR Women Open championship (Lviv, Ukraine, 1991), arbiter of Women World Candidate Tournament (Tskhaltubo, Republic of Georgia, 1988), World Chess Olympiads (Moscow, Russia, 1994 and Yerevan, Armenia, 1996), Tigran Petrosian
memorial tournaments (1984–1991, Armenia).
At present, Nonna Karakashyan teaches chess classes http://chess-class.com in Edison, New Jersey (USA).
Her daughter, Narine Karakashian, is a chess Woman International Master, currently - psychologist, PhD.
Interesting fact - both mother and daughter were awarded with International chess titles (IA and WIM, correspondingly) at the same FIDE Congress in Manila, Philippines in 1992.
Armenia
Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
n woman awarded with FIDE title of International Arbiter
International Arbiter
In chess, International Arbiter is a title awarded by FIDE to individuals deemed capable of acting as arbiter in important chess matches . The title was established in 1951....
(1992). She is a chess
Chess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
player and coach.
Her last name may also be spelled as Karakashian.
Nonna Karakashyan was a student of Honoured Trainer Suren Abramian. She was three-time women chess champion of Azerbaijan (1961,1963,1964) and national team member in 1955-1964. She earned a Bachelor in Engineering degree.
In 1979 Karakashyan founded "Trudovye Reservy" chess club in Baku, Azerbaijan, the very first chess club in the USSR for students of vocational technical school
Vocational technical school
Vocational Technical School – "Professionalno-tehnicheskoye uchilishche" are vocational education facilities established in the former Soviet Union to train qualified industrial workers and servicemen...
s.
In 1991-1992 Nonna Karakashyan held a position of a Deputy Director of Executive Committee of Armenian Chess Federation
Armenian Chess Federation
The Armenian Chess Federation is the governing chess organisation in Armenia and is affiliated to FIDE. The Armenian Chess Federation was founded in 1927.In 2011 the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan was reelected as President of Armenian Chess Federation....
.http://www.chessfed.am
Nonna Karakashyan was Chief Arbiter of Finale tournament of the 51st USSR Women Open championship (Lviv, Ukraine, 1991), arbiter of Women World Candidate Tournament (Tskhaltubo, Republic of Georgia, 1988), World Chess Olympiads (Moscow, Russia, 1994 and Yerevan, Armenia, 1996), Tigran Petrosian
Tigran Petrosian
Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian was a Soviet-Armenian grandmaster, and World Chess Champion from 1963 to 1969. He was nicknamed "Iron Tigran" due to his playing style because of his almost impenetrable defence, which emphasised safety above all else...
memorial tournaments (1984–1991, Armenia).
At present, Nonna Karakashyan teaches chess classes http://chess-class.com in Edison, New Jersey (USA).
Her daughter, Narine Karakashian, is a chess Woman International Master, currently - psychologist, PhD.
Interesting fact - both mother and daughter were awarded with International chess titles (IA and WIM, correspondingly) at the same FIDE Congress in Manila, Philippines in 1992.
Publications
- «Trainer who was a Role Model…» (2000), memoirs about Suren Abramian originally published at КasparovChess.ru /in Russian/
- Շախմատաին Հայաստան / «Шахматная Армения» / Chess in Armenia magazine - articles (1983—1992) /in Armenian and Russian/
- «Голос Армении» / Voice of Armenia newspaper - chess columnist (1983—1992) /in Russian/.
External links
- Personal card of Nonna Karakashyan at FIDE
- Chess classes in New Jersey — website of Nonna Karakashyan
- School Plus - Sunday school in New Jersey
- The History of Chess in Azerbaijan /in Russian/
- «Armenian Stars of Baku Sport» — Noev Kovcheg magazine, 2008, # 8 (131) /in Russian/.
- «The Dream of My Life» - interview with Nonna Karakashyan /in Russian/.
- «When we were young…» - interview with Nonna Karakashyan about Woman International Grandmaster Tatiana ZatulovskayaTatiana ZatulovskayaTatiana Yakovlevna Zatulovskaya is a Soviet, Russian, and Israeli chess player, Woman Grandmaster, and the 1993 Senior Women's World Chess Champion...
/in Russian/. - «From New Year Mail», about chess classes of Nonna Karakashyan in New Jersey /in Russian/.
- Alexander Sarychev, "Nice Debut", "Proftekhobrazovanie" magazine (USSR), 1981, # 3 (430), p. 54 /in Russian/.