ARMENIAN GM BECOMES WINNER IN CHIGORIN MEMORIAL

PanARMENIAN.Net
04.11.2009 14:32 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenian GM Hrant Melkumyan scored 7 points out of
9 and shared the 1st-5th places with GMs Volkov (Russia), Zhou Weiqi
(China), Rychagov (Russia) and Deviatkin (Russia) in Chigorin Memorial
which was held on November 3 in St Petersburg (Russia).

IM Robert Hovhannisian scored 6,5 points; GM Zaven Andriasian, IM
Levon Babujian and Vardges Tovmasian scored 6 points each.

There were 159 chess players taking part in the tournament, armchess.am
reports.

Mikhayil Chigorin was an outstanding Russian chess-player at the
turn of the XIX-XX centuries. He is considered on of the founders
of Russian-Soviet chess school. Chigorin is the author of many chess
debuts, including Queen Gambit otherwise known as Chigorin Defense.