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| NM Carissa Yip photo: Tony Cortizas, Jr. |
Ex-Wachusett Chess Club Champion Carissa Yip
To Compete in 2019 World Team Championship
(Also Ex-Boylston Chess Club Champion rjo)
Former Wachusett Chess Club champion Carissa Yip of
Andover, Mass. will represent the United States on a national women's
team competing in the 2019 World Team Championship, which will be played
between March 4 (arrival) and March 15 (departure) in Astana, capital
of Kazakhstan. The 2014 Wachusett CC champion and Woman International
Master will join team mates WGM Tatev Abrahamyan, WGM Katerina Nemcova,
WGM Sabina-Francesca Foisor, and alternate WCM Rochelle Wu in competing
with teams from Russia, China, Armenia, Ukraine, Georgia, India,
Hungary, Kazakhstan and Egypt. Team captain is noted chess teacher GM
Melikset Khachiyan of Los Angeles, GM Levon Aronian's first chess coach.
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| photo: Tony Cortizas, Jr. |
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