Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Armenia koyaushe ta yi fice a wasan chess tare da 'yan wasanta suna kasancewa sau da yawa a cikin manyan darajoji da kayan ado. Hedikwatar Tarayyar Chess ta Armenia tana cikin Gidan Chess na Tigran Petrosian na Yerevan. Tuni a makarantar firamare, ana ba da ilimin chess. Birnin yana da gida ga ƙungiyoyin wasan chess da makarantun horo da yawa. A cikin 1996, duk da mawuyacin halin tattalin arziki a cikin ƙasar, Yerevan ya karbi bakuncin gasar Chess Olympiad ta 32. A shekara ta 2006, mambobi hudu daga Yerevan na tawagar 'yan wasan chess na Armenia sun lashe gasar Olympiad ta Chess ta 37
a Turin da kuma maimaita feat a 38th Chess Olympiad a Dresden. Armenian ya lashe gasar Olympics ta Chess a karo na 3 a 2012 a Istanbul. Shugaban kungiyar 'yan wasan chess na kasa; Levon Aronian, wanda aka haife shi a Yerevan, yana daya daga cikin manyan 'yan wasan chess a duniya.