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YEREVAN, JULY 31, ARMENPRESS: Armenian grandmasters Sergey Movsesian and Hrant Melkumyan played draw with each other in the seventh round of international chess tournament which takes place in Swiss city Bil. Armenpress was informed about this from Armenian chess federation.
After this round Melkumyan and Movsesian have 5 points and have correspondingly the seventh and tenth positions but they only 0.5 points lose the three leaders Indian grandmaster Pentala Harikrishna, Russian Maxim Turov and French Romen Eduar.
Sergey Movsesian is an Armenian-born chess grandmaster who used to play for Czech Republic for most of his career, later he represents Slovakia for better condition and citizenship certificate there, but as of late 2010, Movsesian announced that he plays for his home country of Armenia. He was a member of the gold-medal winning Armenian team at the World team Chess Championship in Ningbo 2011.
Hrant Melkumyan won the international Internet championship organized by the ICCchess Internet portal. In 2006, he won the U18 silver medal at the World Youth Chess Championship.