Nonna Karakashyan

Nonna Karakashyan
Full name	Նոննա Կարակաշյան
Country	USSR Armenia USA
Born	February 13, 1940 (1940-02-13) (age 71) Baku, USSR
Title	International Arbiter (chess) (1992)

Nonna M. Karakashyan (Armenian: Նոննա Կարակաշյան; born Nonna M. Avanesova, February 13, 1940) is first Armenian 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 schools.

In 1991-1992 Nonna Karakashyan held a position of a Deputy Director of Executive Committee of Armenian Chess Federation.[1]

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 [2] 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 Zatulovskaya /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/.

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