ARMENIAN CHESS TEAM STARTS WITH VICTORY OVER THE DANES IN TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
23.10.2009 09:49 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian National Chess team has a good start at the
17th Team Championship in the Serbian town of Novi Sad. Armenian chess
players in 1st round, defeated the Danish team with a score of 3:1.

Grandmasters Vladimir Akopian and Gabriel Sargsyan first have completed
their parties. Both GM shared points with their rivals Lars Bo Hansen
and Sune Berg Hansen. A victory of the Armenian national team brought
Arman Pashikyan and Tigran Petrosyan, taking precedence over Lars
Schandorff and Glud Jakob Vang, respectively.

After the first round of the Armenian national team along with other
16 participating teams scored 2 points, but by its individual results
shares 7-8 places of the tournament table.

Only teams of Hungary and the Netherlands showed absolute results,
their all four chess players defeated their rivals.

In the second round the Armenian chess players will compete with
the Romanian national team, which is ranked 14th in the rating of
member teams.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress