All three Armenia representatives won their respective games against Russian players: Shant Sargsyan beat Volodar Murzin, Mamikon Gharibyan beat Dmitriy Juznetsov, and Aram Hakobyan won the game against Arseniy Nesterov.

Sargsyan with 2.5 points is the sole leader of the tournament, Hakobyan and Gharibyan are still half a point behind him.