Laura Markarian, Armenian Girls Chess Champion

Photo taken in Yerevan, Armenia, USSR

A few weeks after this photo was taken, I was arrested in Afghanistan. I was held incommunicado for three months and nobody knew whether I was dead or alive. Laura was contacted from America because she was one of the last persons who saw me. Here is that story: How I Escaped from Jail in Afghanistan.

Laura Markarian with Sam Sloan

• Sofia Polgar plays chess against Shamema Honzagool Sloan

• Xie Si Ming, Chinese chess grandmaster

• Qin Kai Ying, Chinese grandmaster of chess

• Jennie Frenklakh, Girl Chess Master

• Shamema Honzagool Sloan

• Charles Roberts

• Shelby Roberts

• Shamema Sloan and Dr. Helen Marjorie Sloan in Sri Lanka, 1987

• Shamema Sloan with her father Ismail Sloan on the Great Wall of China, 1988

• Jessica Vithanage Sloan

• Peter Julius Sloan

• Mary Rachel Sloan

• Honzagool, February, 1981

• Anda Baumanis from Riga, Latvia

• Anusha Rankoth Sloan

• Ismail Sloan and Shanti Vithanage with Jessica

• Leroy B. Sloan

• Chinese Chess being played by Shamema Honzagool Sloan

• Ismail Sloan holds two of his children