In Round 9 of the European Individual Chess Championship 2017 Armenia’s Arman Mikayelyan recorded another sensational victory against Spanish chess grandmaster Anton Guijarro David (2660). National Olympic Committee of Armenia reports, Mikayelyan along Russians Anton Demchenko and Maxim Matlakov shares the 2-4 places in the tournament with 7 points each.
On June 9, our chess player will compete with Davit Navara of the Czech Republic (2739) who is the highest ranked player of the tournament. To compare, Arman Mikayelyan is ranked the 216th at the ongoing tournament.
To remind, the championship is played in 11-round Swiss system, with the time control 90 minutes for 40 moves plus 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move, starting from move one. The European Individual Championship 2017 is a qualification event for the next World Cup.