Image Mr. Olafsson in 1971 playing against Tigran Petrosian in a tournament in Wijk aan Zee, the Netherlands.Credit...Rob Bogaerts/Anefo, via National Archives Over his career, Mr. Olafsson ...

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Soviet-Armenian grandmaster and a previous world chess champion, Tigran Petrosian was noted for his impenetrable defensive playing style. He was at times referred to as the drawing master.

Exactly sixty years ago, as it happened in 2023 between Ding LIren and Ian Nepomniachtchi, Tigran Petrosian opposed Mikhail Botvinnik for the FIDE World Championship Chess Championship.

Pawel Teclaf, 18, from Poland, lost to Tigran Petrosian, 37, from Armenia in the fast-moving match at the World Blitz Championship in Warsaw on December 29. A hilarious clip shows Mr Teclaf ...

One of them was Melikset Khachiyan, a chess player who studied the game, as a teen-ager, under Tigran Petrosian, Armenia’s greatest-ever player. Khachiyan had shown early promise, but a shot at ...

A chess Grandmaster has been banned from the Dubai Open Chess Tournament after being caught using an iPod touch running a chess app, reports Dubai Chess. Gaioz Nigalidze, winner of the ...

Nigalidze’s cheating had been discovered by officials during his sixth round with Armenia’s Grandmaster Tigran Petrosian. Petrosian had told the tournament’s staff he believed Nigalidze was ...

Anurag Mahamal came up with a sterling show to checkmate Tigran Petrosian in the second round of Grand Europe Golden Sands International Chess tournament. BULGARIA: International Master Anurag ...

Sundararajan Kidambi took a giant stride towards his second Grandmaster norm by stunning Armenian Grandmaster Tigran Petrosian in the fourth round of the ninth Dubai International Chess ...