ARMENIAN MALE CHESS PLAYERS FIGHT FOR MEDALS

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 25, ARMENPRESS. After nine rounds at the 36-th World Chess Olympiad in Spanish Calvia Armenian male chess team is fourth. In the latest round our team played 2:2 with the leader of the Olympiad Ukrainian team. Rafael Vahanian won the well-known Ruslan Ponomariov, Smbat Lputian was defeated by Andrei Volokitin, while Vladimir Hakobian and Gabriel Sarkisian ended in draw with Vasili Ivanchuk and Alexander Morozevich.
Ukraine is leading with 27 scores, Russia comes second with 24,5 scores, USA is with 24 scores, and Armenia is forth with 23 scores.