VARDAN KODJOYAN CHAMPION OF "MOSCOW OPEN 2008"

Panorama.am
11/02/2008

Armenian Grand Master Vardan Kodjoyan presenting Armenia in "Moscow
Open 2008" international competition became a champion in the second
group. The 18 years old Grand Master managed to show perfect results-
8.5 scores from 9 possible. Russian Grand Master Oleg Orlov is in the
second place with 8 scores. The best triple is completed by Sergey
Koroschenko with 7.5 scores.

Note that Kodjoyan lost only 0.5 scores in the competition in the
last ninth part. In the ninth part he met with his compatriot Tigran
Gasparyan.

Artyom Timofev became the champion of the first group.

He has 7.5 scores on his account. Alexandr Riazantsev is in the second
and Sergey Volkov in the third place.

Armenian champion, Grand Master Karen Asryan has 6 scores and occupies
the middle places of the competition.

Slovenian International Master, champion of Europe Anna Muzchuk became
the champion in the women’s competition. Ukrainian Anna Ushenin comes
after the champion. The triple is completed by Ukrainian Nathalia
Zhukov. Armenian Grand Master Elina Danielyan completes the best ten
with her 6.5 scores.

Note: "Moscow Open" international competition takes place since
2005. The competition started on 2 February, and finished yesterday.