Local chess club, student win first place at competition

By Mark Kellam

Feb. 27, 2018 4:05 PM PT

All American Assn. Chess Club, based in Glendale, and one of its students recently won first place at the L.A. Super Chess Championships, in which more than 250 chess players participated.

Arina Baghdasaryan took home first-place honors at the contest. She is a student at Toll Middle School and has been a club member for a year.

The club’s high school team also brought home a first-place trophy.

All American Assn. Chess Club was founded by Nshan Keshishian in 1991. Currently, the club has more than 300 students involved in various after-school programs and club locations.

For more information about the club, call (323) 708-7676.

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Mark Kellam was city editor of the Glendale News-Press and Burbank Leader. He joined Times Community News in July 2011 as the business-politics reporter and was promoted to city editor in January 2013. Previously, he was an editor at the Los Angeles Daily News and managing editor at Champion Newspapers in Chino, Calif. Prior to that, he was an editor at Amos Suburban Newspapers in Dayton, Ohio, for several years. Kellam holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Indiana University.