Grandmaster Sergei Movsesian, who has played for Slovakia so far, announced transfer to the Armenian team, chess-news.ru reported.

Movsesian has lived in the Czech Republic since 1994. He won international tournaments in Sarajevo (2002 and 2007), 2007 Czech Coal Carlsbad tournament in Karlovy Vary, Mikhail Chigorin Memorial in Saint Petersburg in 2007 and B-tournament of the Corus Chess Tournament in 2008.