ARTASHES MINASIAN PERFORMS SUCCESSFULLY IN "AEROFLOT OPEN" TOURNAMENT

Noyan Tapan
Armenians Today
Feb 20 2007

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 20, NOYAN TAPAN – ARMENIANS TODAY. The next meetings
of the chess international tournament entitled "Aeroflot Open" took
place in Moscow on February 19: Stanislav Novikov is the leader in
the A1 group. He got 5 points from 6 possible ones. 4 chess players,
including Artashes Minasian, occupy the 2nd-5th horizontal lines of
the table, having 4.5 points each.

Vladimir Hakobian and Gabriel Sargsian have 4 points each, Karen
Asrian has 3.5 points, Zaven Andriasian has 3 points, Ashot Anastasian
and Tigran L.Petrosian have 2 points each. Alexander Danin (Russia)
and Shokhrat Stasin (Uzbekistan) are the leaders of the A2 group,
having 5.5 points each. Arman Pashikian, Tigran Nalbandian, Arsen
Yeghiazarian, Beniamin Galstian, Davit Petrosian and Artur Chibukhchian
share the 13th-33rd places with a big group of chess players.

Davit Kalashian shares the 3rd-10th places in the B group, having 5.5
points from 7 possible ones. Suren Poghosian and Tigran Simonian got
again 5.5 points from 7 possible ones in the C group. They share with
the rivals the 6-16th places.