ARMENIAN CHESS PLAYERS MOSTLY TAKE SECOND PLACES AT INTERNATIONAL TOURNAMENTS

PanARMENIAN.Net
08.12.2009 18:41 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Grandmaster Melikset Khachiyan, which represents the
United States, became the winner of US OPEN Tournament. The tournament
has been held 45 times in Los Angeles. According uschess.org, this
year US OPEN was attended by 200 chess players. Melikset Khachiyan
scored 6 out of possible 8 points and became the winner. International
master Andranik Matikozyan representing Armenia with the same result
took the 2nd place.

The city of Stillwater (Oklahoma, USA) hosted an international chess
tournament attended by 32 players. FIDE Master Movses Movsisyan
(USA), who collected 5.5 points out of possible 7, took the 2nd
place. Movses Movsisyan is 1 point behind the tournament leader Conrad
Holt (FIDE Master).

12 chess players take part in the 76th Brazilian chess championship in
the city of Americana, from December 2 to 12. After the 7th round the
international master Grigor Sevak Mekhitarian scored 5.5 points and
took the second place. He is behind Giovanni Veskovi by 0,5 points. 4
rounds are still to be held before the end of the tournament.

Grandmaster Sergey Kasparov (Belarus) in the Portuguese town of
Figueira da Foz took 6th place among 46 participants of the open
chess tournament. He earned 6 points. The winner of the tournament
was Anton Kovalyov (Argentina) with 7 points.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress