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chess
01:33 pm | February 23, 2010
Sports
Armenian chess master Levon Babujyan is the top chess player among
the six Armenian chess players participating in the international
chess competition held in the Iranian city of Mashad.
After 5 rounds, he scored 4.5 points and is currently sharing the 4-7th
places. Levon Babujyan, Gevorg Harutyunyan and Suren Poghosyan started
the competition feeling very confident and scored victories in the
first four rounds, but in the 5th round, the last two were defeated and
were left out of the first top ten. Joining them was chess master Ara
Minasyan who won his opponent in this round and also scored 4 points.
The other two Armenian participants, Aghasi Inants and Varuzhan
Babakhanyan, have 3 and 2.5 points in their actives respectively and
hold the 42nd and 100th places respectively.
The competition is being held by the Swiss procedure with 11 rounds.