Were Monte Melkonian and Tatev Abrahamyan both chess players?
Monte Melkonian Monte Melkonian (classical Armenian: Մոնթէ Մելքոնեան ; reformed: Մոնթե Մելքոնյան; November 25, 1957 – June 12, 1993) was an Armenian left-wing nationalist militant, revolutionary, and commander. He was the leader of an offshoot of the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) in the 1980s and the most celebrated commander during the Nagorno-Karabakh War in the early 1990s.
Abel Aganbegyan Abel Gyozevich Aganbegyan (Armenian: Աբել Գյոզի Աղանբեկյան ; Russian: Абе́л Гёзевич Аганбегя́н ; born 8 October 1932) is a leading Soviet and Russian economist of Armenian descent, a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and an honorary doctor of business administration of Kingston University, the founder and first editor of the journal "EKO".