Armenian chess players in Chigorin Memorial
10:20, 15 October 2013
YEREVAN, OCTOBER 15, ARMENPRESS: The Armenian chess players continue their participation in the Chigorin Tournament. The Armenian Chess Federation informed Armenpress that the Grand Masters Vladimir Hakobyan and Robert Hovhannisyan scored 6,5 points out of 9 and took accordingly the 12th and 21st places among 261 participants in the Chigorin Memorial that was held in Saint Petersburg, Russia. They were half a point behind the winner – the Grand Master Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine). Ten other grandmasters also scored 7 points each but they were behind the winner by the tie-break.
The Grand Masters Zaven Andreasyan and Arthur Gabrielyan had 6 points each.