Armenian chess players score 1.5:0.5 over Spaniards

YEREVAN, AUGUST 30, ARMENPRESS: Armenia's chess team already scores 1.5:0.5 over Spaniards during the third round of 40th Chess Olympics hosted Istanbul.

As Armenpress reports grandmaster Segey Movsesian tied a game with grandmaster Ivan Salgado Lopez.

Meanwhile the leader of Armenian team Levon Aroian scored the win over Francisco Vallejo Pons. Grandmasters Gabriel Sargsian and Tigran Petrosian haven’t finished their games yet.

Let us remind that Petrosian learned chess at the age of five. He received coaching from Gagik Sargissian and Melikset Khachiyan before entering a chess academy in 2002, where he was occasionally instructed by GM Arsen Yegiazarian and IM Ashot Nadanian. In 2011, Petrosian tied for 1st–3rd with Marat Dzhumaev and Anton Filippov in the Georgy Agzamov Memorial in Tashkent and won the event on tie-break. In the same year he won the first Armenian Chess960 Championship, tied for 2nd–4th with Abhijeet Gupta and Magesh Panchanathan in the third Orissa International GM Open Chess Tournament and came first in the 31st Villa de Benasque Open. In January 2012 Petrosian won the Armenian Chess Championship and in February 2012 came first in the Armenian Rapid Championship.