armenianow: Winner in Stepanakert: Asryan claims chess crown in Karabakh

Armenian grandmaster Karen Asryan has won the nine-round
Tigran Petrosyan 75th Anniversary Memorial Chess Tournament
in Stepanakert, Karabakh.

Against players from Armenia, Poland,

Latvia, Iran,

Switzerland, and Russia,

Asryan suffered only one defeat – against two-time Champion of

Armenia Gabriel

Sargsyan.

Asryan played 4 draws
and won 4 victories
earning 6 points in
total.

Second place was taken
by Bartlomiej Macieja of
Poland who was the
strongest chess player
among all participants of the tournament (40 th in FIDE rankings).

Macieja also suffered only one defeat at the tournament, however, unlike Asryan he won only 3 victories and played 5 draws, which gave him 5.5 points.

Grandmasters Gabriel Sargsyan (Armenia), Ashot Anastasyan (Armenia) and Mikhail Kobalia (Russia) shared places from 3 to 5 with 5 points collected at the tournament.

With 4.5 points Latvian grandmaster Yevgeny Sveshnikov and Armenian international master Tigran Petrosyan shared 6 th and 7 th places.

Junior champion of Armenia national master 17 year old Arman Pashikyan was 8 th at the tournament with 3.5 points.

	chess players	FIDE	title	Country	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pts.	Place
1.	Yevgeny Sveshnikov	2544	GM	LAT	X	1	0	½	½	½	½	0	½	1	4.5	6-7
2.	Tigran Petrosyan	2477	IM	ARM	0	X	1	½	½	½	½	0	½	1	4.5	6-7
3.	Mikhail Kobalia	2643	GM	RUS	1	0	X	½	½	1	½	½	0	1	5	3-5
4.	Ashot Anastasyan	2587	GM	ARM	½	½	½	X	½	1	1	½	½	0	5	3-5
5.	Gabriel Sargsyan	2618	GM	ARM	½	½	½	½	X	0	½	½	1	1	5	3-5
6.	Arman Pashikyan	2451	NM	ARM	½	½	0	0	1	X	½	1	0	0	3.5	8
7.	Yannick Pelletier	2587	GM	SUI	½	½	½	0	½	½	X	0	0	½	3	9 -10
8.	Bartlomiej Macieja	2653	GM	POL	1	1	½	½	½	0	1	X	½	½	5.5	2
9.	Karen Asryan	2599	GM	ARM	½	½	1	½	0	1	1	½	X	1	6	1
10.	Ghaem Maghami	2556	GM	Iran	0	0	0	1	0	1	½	½	0	X	3	9- 10