Armenian Chess-Players In Lead In Three Out Of Four Tournaments

Noyan Tapan

Feb 13 2006

MOSCOW, FEBRUARY 13, NOYAN TAPAN. Representatives of Armenia have

good results in all of 4 tournaments of “Aeroflot Open” chess festival

being held in Moscow. In the general “A1” tournament Vladimir Hakobian

gained 4 out of 5 possible points and shares the 1-5th places. Gabriel

Sargsian, Karen Asrian and Tigran L.Petrosian are also in the lead:

they share the 6-17th palces with 3 points each. Arsen Yeghiazarian

has the best results in the “A2” tournament. He is in the 12-32nd

places with 3.5 points. “B” and “C” tournament participants have held

6 games each. David Petrosian, a young chess-player from Yerevan,

is the only one in the lead in the “B” tournament: he has 5.5 points.
Representative of Armenia Artur Gharagyozian also has 5.5 points in the

“C” tournament. He shares the 1-4th places. All the tournaments of the

“Aerofolot Open” are held by the Swiss contest rules, by 9 tours. The

prize-winners will become known on September 15.