Aysor, Armenia
Aug 29 2009

Game of Vruzhan Hkobyan ended in draw again

In the 2nd round of the 10th international chess tournament taking
place in Montréal, Canada Varuzhan Hakobyan representing USA
ended in draw playing with Vinay Bhatti representing the same
country. The point shared also Onshichku and Shulman, Kovalyov and
Rusel Ruzmon. Sebastien Mazze took the advantage with the whites over
Alexander Miseneenko, Arkadi Nardich over Mark Blyuvshtein, Etienne
Bakro over Sergey Tavyakov.

Varujan Hakobyan (USA) ` Vinay Bhat (USA) 0.5:0.5

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Cc3 Cf6 4.e3 e6 5.Cf3 Cbd7 6.Dc2 Fd6 7.Fd3 0-0 8.0-0
dxc4 9.Fxc4 b5 10.Fe2 Fb7 11.Td1 Db8 12.e4 e5 13.dxe5 Cxe5 14.Cd4 b4
15.Cf5 Fc5 16.Ca4 Fxf2+ 17.Rxf2 Ceg4+ 18.Fxg4 Cxg4+ 19.Re1 Dxh2 20.De2
Tad8 21.Fg5 f6 22.Fe3 h5 23.Rf1 Fc8 24.Ce7+ Rh7 25.Fg1 Dh1 26.Txd8
Txd8 27.Cxc8 Ch2+ 28.Rf2 Cg4+ 29.Rf1 Ch2+ 30.Rf2 Cg4+ 31.Rf1 Ch2+
1/2:1/2:

3rd round

Sergey Tivyakov (Holland) ` Sebastian Maze (France)
Tomas Rusel-Rozmon (Canada) ` Etienne Bakro (France)
Vinay Bhat (USA) ` Anton Kovalyo (Argentina)
Yuri Shulman (USA)- Varuzhan Hakobyan (USA)
Mark Blyuvshteyn (Canada) ` Alexander Onishchuk (USA)
Alexander Moseenko (Ukraine) ` Arkadi Naydich (Germany)