Armenian National Chess Team Is Among Favorites

ARMENIAN NATIONAL CHESS TEAM IS AMONG FAVORITES

Aysor
Oct 23 2009
Armenia

Armenian men’s team won 3:1 over Denmark’s team at 17th Team Chess
Championship in Novi Sad, Serbia.

Armen Pashikyan won over Lars Schandofom, and Tigran Petrosyan defeated
Wang Jacob Gludi. Vladimir Hakobyan-Bo Larsen Gansen set ended in a
draw as well as Gabriel Sarkisyan-Berg Sun Gansen set.

Thus, after the first round 17 teams lead the tournament table with
2 points each including Azerbaijan’s team which is among favorites.

Another favorite is Russian’s team which played in a draw with
Croatian team. And traditionally, Armenian team is among favorites,
too, and will play against Romania in round two.

1st round: Denmark-Armenia 1:3

Lars Bo Hansen, Vladimir Akopyan 0,5:0,5 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4
c5 4. e3 cxd4 5. exd4 d5 6. Nc3 Bb4 7. Bd3 dxc4 8. Bxc4 O-O 9. O-O
b6 10. Bg5 Bb7 11. Rc1 Nbd7 12. Qe2 Qb8 13.

Rfd1 h6 14. Bh4 Qf4 15. Bg3 Qf5 16. Bd3 Qh5 17. Nb5 Nd5 18. Ne5 Qxe2
19. Bxe2 Nxe5 20. dxe5 Ba6 1 / 2: 1 / 2.

Gabriel Sarkisyan – Berg Sun Hansen 0,5:0,5 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3
dxc4 4. e4 b5 5. a4 b4 6. Na2 Nf6 7. e5 Nd5 8. Bxc4 e6 9. Nf3 Ba6
10. Bxa6 Nxa6 11. O-O h6 12. Qd3 Qb6 13. Be3 Be7 14. Nc1 O-O 15. Nb3
Nxe3 16. fxe3 c5 17. Rfc1 cxd4 18. exd4 Nc7 19. a5 Qb8 20. Rc2 Nd5
21. Qa6 Qe8 22. Qc6 Qxc6 23. Rxc6 Rfc8 24. Rac1 1 / 2: 1 / 2.

Lars Schandof – Arman Pashikyan 0:1 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6
4. Nc3 e6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Qc2 Bd6 7. Bd3 O-O 8. O-O dxc4 9. Bxc4 b5
10. Be2 Bb7 11. Rd1 Qc7 12. h3 Rfe8 13. b3 a6 14. Bb2 c5 15. Rac1
Rac8 16. Qb1 Qb8 17. Ng5 cxd4 18. Rxd4 h6 19.

Nge4 Bh2 20. Kh1 Be5 21. Nxf6 Nxf6 22. Rdd1 Bxc3 23. Rxc3 Ne4 24. Rxc8
Nxf2 25. Kg1 Nxh3 26. Kf1 Rxc8 27. gxh3 Qg3 28. e4 Qf4 29. Ke1 Bxe4
30. Bd3 Qg3 31. Kf1 Bg2 0:1.

Tigran Petrosyan – Wang Jacob Gludi 1:0 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4
4. Nxd4 Bb4 5. c3 Bc5 6. Be3 Bb6 7. Nf5 g6 8. Bxb6 axb6 9. Ne3 Nf6
10. f3 O-O 11. c4 d6 12. Nc3 Re8 13. Qd2 Ne5 14. O-O-O Be6 15. Kb1
Ra5 16. f4 Nc6 17. Ned5 Nb8 18. Bd3 Nbd7 19.

Bc2 Rc5 20. b3 Bxd5 21. exd5 b5 22. Rhe1 Rxe1 23. Rxe1 Nb6 24. Nxb5
Nfxd5 25. a4 c6 26. Nc3 Nxc3 27. Qxc3 Rh5 28. Qe3 Kf8 29. Qd4 Kg8 30.

h3 Nc8 31. Qe3 Kf8 32. g4 Ra5 33. b4 Ra8 34. f5 Qh4 35. f6 1:0.