Armenian chess-players in various championships

Armenian IM Ruslan Kurayan (Ukraine) scored 7,5 points out of 9 and shared 1st-4th places among 228 participants at the open that was held in Lichtenberger, Germany. Armchess.am writes about this. By the tie-break Kurayan took the third place. The winner of the tournament was GM Rene Stern (Germany).

According to the same source, Armenian IM Mher Hovhannisyan (Belgium) scored 7,5 points out of 9 and took the first prize among 166 participants at the open that was held in Brasschaat, Belgium. The same results had GM Eric Van Den Doel (Netherlands) but he was behind the Armenian chess player by the tie-break.

Armenian GM Sergey Kasparov (Belarus) took the third place with 7 points.