Noyan Tapan
Mar 15 2006

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CONTINUES WITHOUT ARMENIAN CHESS-PLAYERS

YEKATERINBURG, MARCH 15, NOYAN TAPAN. Two tours are already over
in the chess women’s championship being held in the Russian city of
Yekaterinburg. 16 out of 64 participants of the competitions being
held by the “Knockout” contest rules will continue to play. The
representatives of Armenia aren’t among them. In the second round
grand master from Yerevan Elina Danielian was defeated by one of the
strongest Russian chess-players, Alexandra Kostenyuk, with a score
of 0 to 2. Before this, after being defeated in the first round,
the other representative of Armenia, Lilit Mkrtchian, was left out
of the competition.