Question: Were Monte Melkonian and Tatev Abrahamyan both chess players?

Context articles: Chess Players Association of India
Belize National Youth Chess Foundation
Monte Melkonian
Jeremy Gaige
Tatev Abrahamyan
Soviet Chess School
Chess Life
World Chess Network
List of Russian chess players
Chess set

Chess Players Association of India (CPAI) is an association of chess players in India affiliated to the All India Chess Federation.
 The objective of this association is to serve a common forum for players for Indian chess players and promote the game in particular.
The Belize National Youth Chess Foundation (B.N.Y.C.F.) was co-founded by Ian & Ella Anderson in the summer of 2007 as a not-for-profit organization and with a small army of volunteers it spread throughout the country.
 The game of Chess has been around for a very long time but in Belize there were no formal organizations and no figures to indicate how many people were playing the game.
 Building on the founding by Mr. Robert Landolfi and Mr. Glen Reneau of the first school chess club at Hummingird Elementary and the Belize Association of Chess Players in Belize City, due to the efforts of the B.N.Y.C.F. there are now teams ranging from the most southern villages in Toledo District to the most northern villages along the Belize-Mexico border in the Corozal District.
 Since 2007, the organization has more than 50 active chess clubs and over 1400 players around the country and it functions all year round.
 An interview with Ian Anderson, Co-Chair, reveals that chess is not only a pastime or hobby in Belize; it can and should be used “as an educational tool to help develop the minds of primary school students.”
 The B.N.Y.C.F. has worked with primary schools to successfully integrate chess as a part of the curriculum of the primary schools in Belize.
 Within one year the game of Chess became the fastest growing sport in the country.
 As part of its efforts to promote this sport, the B.N.Y.C.F. assisted the Belize Chess Federation to become active again in 2008 by updating fees due to FIDE, the World Chess affiliate.
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.
Jeremy Gaige (October 9, 1927, New York – February 19, 2011) was an American chess archivist and journalist.
 He was best known for his work collecting and publishing tournament results and basic biographical data on chess players.
 Hooper and Whyld called his works "scrupulously written" and "a source of reference for chess journalists and writers all over the world".
 Gaige's 1969 book, "A Catalog of Chess Players and Problemists", contained about 3000 names with dates and places of birth and death.
 Chess writers soon began sending him information, and "Chess Personalia" (1987), his greatly expanded follow up, listed about 14,000 names with dates and places of birth and death, along with references to sources of biographical information.
Tatev Abrahamyan (Armenian: Տաթև Աբրահամյան ; born January 13, 1988 in Yerevan) is an Armenian-born American chess player holding the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
The Soviet School of Chess was asserted to be a national style of play by Soviet chess players and journalists.
 Although chess had been a game of the bourgeois and upper classes before the revolution, its popularity among Bolshevik leaders, including Lenin, contributed to its being supported by state leaders in the USSR as a national pastime.
 References to a Soviet School of Chess only occurred after World War II, when a generation of Soviet chess players, led by soon-to-be world champion Mikhail Botvinnik, began a string of victories over international competitors that surprised the world.
The monthly Chess Life and bi-monthly Chess Life Kids (formerly School Mates and Chess Life for Kids ) are the official magazines published by the United States Chess Federation (US Chess).
 "Chess Life" is advertised as the "most widely read chess magazine in the world," and reaches more than a quarter of a million readers each month.
 It focuses on American chess players and tournaments, instruction, human interest, and US Chess governance matters.
 "Chess Life for Kids" is geared towards those under 14.
 A subscription to "Chess Life" and "Chess Life for Kids" is currently one benefit of becoming a US Chess member or affiliate.
 All members are given access to the online versions of "Chess Life" and "Chess Life for Kids" (including back issues).
 Affiliates and some membership categories also receive printed copies of "Chess Life" and/or "Chess Life for Kids".
The World Chess Network (WCN) was a commercial Internet chess server devoted to the play and discussion of chess that launched in 1997 and closed ten years later in 2007 when it was bought by Internet Chess Club and merged with Chess Live to form World Chess Live.
 As a typical chess server, the network provided basic services such as the conduction of live chess games over the Internet between two human players.
 Chess tournaments were occasionally conducted by the service, including a select few matches between known chess Grandmasters where spectators could watch the game in real-time.
 During its heyday, the network was frequented by professional chess players including notable Grandmasters like Elena Donaldson, Susan Polgar, Larry Christiansen and Larry Evans.
This list of Russian chess players lists people from Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Empire who are primarily known as chess players.
 The majority of these people are chess grandmasters.
A chess set has thirty-two chess pieces in two colours and a chessboard used to play chess.
 Chess is played by two chess players with each player starting with one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights and eight pawns. Chess equipment often accompanying a chess set are a chess box, chess clock and chess table.
 Chess sets are made in a wide variety of styles, often for ornamental rather than practical purposes.
 For tournament play, the Staunton chess set is preferred.