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		Akopian, 27, selected the aggressive Benoni Defense, and Khalifman made no attempt to take a conservative line, but attacked it, as if he were out to kill it.
		Khalifman received $528,000 and Akopian got $316,000, after giving 20 percent of their prizes to the Chess Federation, as all participants were obligated to do.
		Akopian's quiet, inoffensive 5 d3 indicates that he probably did not want to be tested by one of the sharp defenses to the Ruy Lopez, like the Open Defense with 5 O-O Ne4 or the Marshall Gambit.
	www.nytimes.com /ref/crosswords/chess/990829chess.html (678 words)

	MindZine - Chess News - MSO
		Vladimir Kramnik and Viswanathan Anand finished with 6 points each to tie for first at Dortmund.
		Akopian won Bareev's e-pawn with his bishop and threatened mate on h1.
		Akopian was down only a pawn, but when the queens and rooks came off, he was left with a lost bishop+pawn endgame, so he resigned after 41 moves.
	www.msoworld.com /mindzine/news/chess/dortmund2000.html (2186 words)

	Anand outwits Akopian - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Living dangerously against Vladimir Akopian, Anand might have got the shivers, but the taste of victory just before going into the first rest day on Monday should have been more than ample compensation for the inconvenience.
		Akopian, after a thrilling victory against Kramnik on Saturday, lived up to his reputation of playing brilliant, aggressive chess by adopting the Sicilian-Najdorf against Anand.
		Akopian sacrificed a pawn to build up an attack on Anand's King and the Indian spent some anxious moments in retaining the pawn.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jan122004/sp14.asp (443 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wijk aan Zee: Defending champion Viswanathan Anand was brilliance personified as he crashed through the defences of overnight leader Vladimir Akopian of Armenia to emerge as leader in the Corus chess tournament here.
		Akopian might have been flying high after his rather satisfying triumph over Kramnik but his hopes of even making it a grand fight against the Indian stalwart were dashed in spectacular fashion.
		The final position was picturesque as Anand threatened to push his passed king pawn to glory, leaving his king in an optical danger and his rook en prise.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040112/asp/sports/story_2777585.asp (292 words)

	News
		The shock result of the opening day was the defeat of Vladimir Kramnik at the hands of Vladimir Akopian.
		It was a great win for Akopian who in 2002 had beaten Garry Kasparov in the Russia versus Rest of the World Match, in which NIIT Brand Ambassador was the captain of the winning Rest of the World winning team.
		Akopian's win also earned him the first day's spectators’ prize for the most elegant game of the day.
	www.niit.com /niit/vishy/news/110104-1.htm (517 words)

	Vladimir Akopian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vladimir Hakobyan (Armenian: Վլադիմիր Հակոբյան; born December 7, 1971 in Baku) is a leading Armenian chess Grandmaster.
		Outside Armenia is he is better known as by the Russian version of his name, Vladimir Akopian (Russian: Владимир Акопян); the Fédération Internationale des Échecs still list him under that name.
		Hakobyan won the World Under-16 Championship in 1986 at the age of 14, won the World Under-18 Championship at 16 and was World Junior Champion in 1991.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vladimir_Akopian (265 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Shirov, Akopian in last eight
		Besides Shirov, the only other player to move into the fifth round, which is the last eight stage, was Vladimir Akopian, who beat Kiril Georgiev of Bulgaria in the second game of the fourth round.
		Akopian worked out a good opening advantage but did not quite pursue the opportunities that came his way.
		Just as it seemed it was headed towards a draw Akopian found a way to win a pawn and got in a sharp ending.
	www.rediff.com /sports/1999/aug/11chess1.htm (574 words)

	Corus Chess 2007 - News - New in Corus-A: Zhang Zhong and Akopian
		Corus Chess 2007 - News - New in Corus-A: Zhang Zhong and Akopian
		Also new in the A-group is Vladimir Akopian, the Vice-World Champion of 1999/2000 when he lost the WC-final to Alexander Khalifman.
		Akopian played in Wijk aan Zee only one time, but this was during the experiment with the knock out-system.
	www.coruschess.com /article.php?s=n11 (174 words)

	Adams ousts top-seed, earns semifinal berth with Akopian Melissa Salamone retains junior-lightweight title Arab Games ...
		In the other playoff, Vladimir Akopian of Armenia won his first game from Sergei Movsesian of the Czech Republic and drew the second to secure his place in the semifinals.
		Akopian was scheduled to play Adams when the final four began later on Sunday.
		Akopian gained the initiative and finally arrived at a position where he could force checkmate in three moves.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=13714 (2146 words)

	The Hindu : Ramesh holds Akopian
		CALCUTTA, FEB.7 FIDE World chess championship runner-up Vladimir Akopian of Armenia was held to a draw by International Master R.B.Ramesh.
		Akopian neutralised the game when they reached a queen and minor piece ending.
		But in the resultant queen ending, Akopian's four pawns on the king-side could not do any damage to white's three pawns on the same side.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/02/08/stories/07080201.htm (726 words)

	tribuneindia... Sports
		LAS VEGAS (USA) Aug 16 — Hot favourite grandmaster Michael Adams of England was shocked by grandmaster Vladimir Akopian of Armenia after the Englishman squandered his winning advantage in the first game of their four game-semifinal match of the $3 million World Chess Championship today.
		LAS VEGAS (USA) Aug 16 (UNI) — Hot favourite grandmaster Michael Adams of England was shocked by grandmaster Vladimir Akopian of Armenia after the Englishman squandered his winning advantage in the first game of their four game-semifinal match of the $3 million World Chess Championship today.
		Akopian had no choice but to run with his king on the other wing away from the menacing white pieces.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99aug17/sports.htm (4127 words)

	Adams seals Kramnik's fate
		Vladimir Akopian was rather lucky to win the first game in the tiebreakers.
		He played an apparently attacking game but a weakening pawn move on his 32nd turn saw him going down after Akopian conducted a superb mating attack.The second game was a typical Akopian masterpiece.
		Akopian's exact deployment of his army left the white pieces ineffective.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990816/isp16070.html (555 words)

	News
		On a day when the Sicilian seemed to be the order of the day with four of the seven games going into it, Vladimir Kramnik rebounded from his first round defeat at the hands of Akopian with a win over local man, Loek Van Wely in a Sicilian Modern Dragon.
		He began building a kingside attack and with Akopian getting into problems with the clock, the Indian pressed ahead.
		Akopian, Adams, Bologan, Shirov, Svidler Topalov, Zhong, Bareev, Sokolov and Kramnik 1.0 each; 13.
	www.niit.com /niit/vishy/news/120104-1.htm (580 words)

	Shirov, Akopian first to qualify
		LAS VEGAS, AUG 11: Grandmasters Alexy Shirov of Spain and Vladimir Akopian of Armenia became the first two qualifiers of the quarter-final line-up of World Chess Championship being organised by FIDE at Hotel Caesars Palace, Las Vegas here.
		Shirov and Akopian defeated Nigel Short (England) and Kiril Georgiev (Bulgaria) respectively by identical margins 1.5-0.5 respectively in the fourth round.
		Vladimir Akopian of Armenia, the 31st seed, defeated Bulgarian Grandmaster Kiril Georgiev, seeded 23rd, in an end-game that lasted 90 moves yesterday.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990812/isp12025.html (463 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
		The Indonesian grand master's expectation of moving ahead in the championship crumbled after he suffered a crushing loss to GM Vladimir Akopian of Armenia.
		After holding Akopian in the first game on Monday, Utut failed to withstand the blistering attack by the 1999 championship runner-up in the second game on Tuesday.
		He even exited during the opening stage in 1999 in Las Vegas, where Akopian arrived on the scene with a bang by getting through to the final before being stopped by eventual champion Alexander Khalifman of Russia.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20040624.J01 (394 words)

	WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL ARMENIAN
		Armenian chess players GMs Tigran L. Petrosian and Vladimir Akopian performed well in the main tournament (A1) of Aeroflot Open 2006.
		In particular, these are GMs Vladimir Akopian, Karen Asrian, Gabriel Sargissian, Ashot Anastasian, Artashes Minasian, Tigran L. Petrosian, Arsen Yegiazarian, Tigran Nalbandian, Ara Minasian, Elina Danielian and others.
		Vladimir Akopian's games and results at the Gibraltar 2006 Open Tournament.
	www.armchess.am /news02-6.htm (1008 words)

	TOMS RIVER CHESS CLUB - PUZZLES PAGE
		Akopian, Vladimir - Kasparov, Garry, World Rapid 2002
		Akopian, Vladimir - Sokolov, Ivan, GMA Wijk aan Zee 2004
		Akopian, Vladimir - Kramnik, Vladimir, GMA Wijk aan Zee 2004
	mywebpages.comcast.net /trchessclub/puzzles.html (358 words)

	Wladimir Hakobjan - Wikipedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Die FIDE führt ihn als Vladimir Akopian (Grund s.u.).
		Hakobjan ist bekannter als Wladimir Akopjan (in englischer Transkription Vladimir Akopian) von russisch Владимир Акопян.
		Dies hat neben der in der Sowjetunion üblichen Russifizierung mit seinem Geburtsort zu tun.
	de.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Vladimir_Akopian (272 words)

	Adams eliminated in World Chess Championship semifinals Del Piero leads Juventus to victory over Milan in pre-season ...
		Vladimir Akopian eliminated England's Michael Adams in the semifinals of the World Chess Championship at Caesars Palace.
		Akopian of Armenia won for the second time with the fl pieces in a four-game mini-match.
		As a youth, Akopian, now 27, won world junior championships in the under-16, under-18 and under-20 divisions.
	www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=13754 (1853 words)

	Corus off to a flying start - The Washington Times: Arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The first great tournament of 2004 is well under way in the chess hotbed of Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands, where Russian Vladimir Kramnik and India's Viswanathan Anand headline the 14-grandmaster Group A section of the annual Corus Chess Tournament.
		The tournament began with a sensation, as nearly unbeatable Kramnik fell to a rook sacrifice from Armenian GM Vladimir Akopian in just 32 moves.
		Akopian came back to earth in the very next round, losing to Anand in a sharp contest in which the Indian grabbed a pawn and defended brilliantly.
	www.washingtontimes.com /arts/20040116-081355-1160r.htm (572 words)

	NewStandard: 8/30/99
		LAS VEGAS -- After 40 moves and nearly four hours of play, Russian Alexander Khalifman clinched the World Chess Championship title with a draw against Vladimir Akopian.
		At the end of Saturday's game, the 27-year-old Akopian stared at a position where he had no chance to win, shrugged his shoulders, and offered his opponent a draw.
		Akopian, of Armenia, tried for a complicated game, but the new champion managed to solve all of the problems and end the match with a score of 3½-2½.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/08-99/08-30-99/b07wn065.htm (286 words)

	The chess games of Vladimir Akopian
		: Akopian is playing very well for Armenia.
		Before the last round he was the leader, but unfortunately lost at the last round and took the 8th plase among 94 players.
		I think it gives the answer to your question, but I can't figure it out from the crosstable.
	www.chessgames.com /perl/chessplayer?pid=14125 (795 words)

	ChessBase.com - Chess News - Corus Round 2: The favorites strike back (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Vladimir Akopian's run of glory lasted just one day.
		After the first round the air in Wijk aan Zee was hot with cries for democracy and the downfall of the rating-list elitists.
		Akopian had just defeated 14th world champion Vladimir Kramnik, recalling his role in the Great Tourist Insurgency of 1999 when he knocked out Bareev and Adams on his way to the FIDE KO final.
	www.chessbase.com.cob-web.org:8888 /newsdetail.asp?newsid=1413 (801 words)

	tribuneindia... Sports
		LAS VEGAS, Aug 20 — Romanian Grandmaster Liviu Nisipeanu’s fairytale run at the World Chess Championship ended when Alexander Khalifman of Russia clipped his wings in a two-game playoff (1.5-0.5) to advance to the final against Vladimir Akopian of Armenia.
		The 23-year-old Nisipeanu, who forced this tie-breaker to decide the second semifinal winner with a classic win on Wednesday that evened their four-match tie 2-2, made an unwise knight sacrifice in the first game yesterday to hand over an initiative to Khalifman.
		Akopian, who has won three junior world championships in under-16, under-18 and under-20 categories, had upset fifth seed Briton Michael Adams in the semifinal (2.5-0.5).
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99aug21/sports.htm (4598 words)

	Russia slip further behind against World -DAWN - Sport; September 12, 2002
		Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov, generally acknowledged to be the best player in the world, lost the last game of the day to Armenia’s Vladimir Akopian, while Boris Guelfman of Israel defeated Russia’s Alexander Khalifman.
		Two similar such matches, in which the Soviet greats took on the world, were held in Belgrade in 1970, and in London in 1984.
		With Akopian and Guelfman, the world team line up is: Viswanathan Anand (India) Judit Polgar (Hungary) Ruslan Ponomaryov (Ukraine, current FIDE world champion), Vasily Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Alexei Shirov (Spain), Peter Leko (Hungary), Boris Gelfman (Israel), Nigel Short (Britain), Ilya Smirin (Israel) and Teymur Radzhabov (Azerbaijan), with Vladimir Akopian (Armenia) and Zurab Azmaiparashvili (Azerbaijan) as back-ups.—AFP
	www.dawn.com /2002/09/12/spt6.htm (284 words)

	Blogrel » Chess (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It has a prize sack of $1.5 mil… not only it is a major tournament in and of itself [it began with the world’s top 128 players], it is also to produce the contender of the World Championship against Mr.
		For some unknown reasons Vladimir Akopian didn’t even begin the tournament, but the others did.
		As a background, that title has been held by two fellow Armenians: in 1991 it was the young Vladimir Akopian, then Levon Aronian in 2002.
	www.blogrel.com /category/chess (773 words)

	Anand starts campaign with easy draw - Sify.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In what could be easily termed as a sensational upset, GM Vladimir Akopian of Armenia defeated top seeded GM Vladimir Kramnik of Russia to emerge as the leader in this 14-players category 19 event.
		In fact the only decisive game of the day was won by Akopian who also earned the best game prize of the day with his Houdini act.
		Choosing for the ultra sharp English attack, Leko was surprised at Anand's ready answers in a popular system and settled for the truce after 32 moves as Anand equalised comfortably.
	sify.com /sports/others/fullstory.php?id=13357400 (271 words)

	5. OIBM 2001, Bad Wiessee - ANMELDUNG (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The highest rated player in the tournament was Vladimir Akopian (ELO: 2660) from Armenia.
		Akopian was in the finals of the worldchampionship 1999.
		After the expected wins in the first rounds, he made draw against the high talented Andrei Volokitin (ELO: 2566, 15 years) from Ukraine.
	www.schach-am-tegernsee.de.cob-web.org:8888 /oib2001/Paarungen/index_e.htm (93 words)

	1999 FIDE World Championship Tournament
		Includes interviews with Vladimir Kramnik, Vadim Zvjaginsev, Nigel Short, Vladimir Akopian, Alexander Khalifman, Michael Adams, and Sergei Movsesian.
		We don't know as we go to press where they are going to play, but it will be a 16-game match, with Kasparov maintaining his title in case of a drawn match.
		Alexei Shirov, who qualified as Kasparov's challenger by defeating Vladimir Kramnik in a match late last year, is not involved in this Ultimate World Championship, despite being ranked Number 2, just ahead of Anand and Kramnik, on the World Chess Ranking that Kasparov has set up in competition with FIDE.
	www.uschess.org /news/world99 (486 words)

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