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ARMENIA'S CHAMPION FAILS
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[12:36 pm] 23 October, 2008
The 2008 European chess championship is drawing to an end in
Calitea. There were high expectations for Armenia's champion "Mika",
which was represented with a strong team in the tournament, but
lost the chance to move up to the top one match before the end of
the championship.
In the 6th tournament "Mika" faced off with the Russian "Saransk",
which placed 7th in the competition. Out of the 6 games, "Mika"
won 5 and one of them was a tie. Levon Aronian and Gabriel Sargsian
celebrated their victories, whiel Magnus Carlsen, Bahadur Jobava and
Tigran Petrosian lost to their competitors and Boris Gelfand scored
half a point.
Former Armenian champion "Bankayin Arka" scored over the Hungarian
"Haladas" team with 3:5:2:5. Ashot Anastasian and Artashes Minasian
also won in the games. "Bankayin Arka" scored another eight points,
but placed 11th with 24 points.
FIMA lost to the Austrian "Advisori Invest" team by 2:5:3:5 and is
currently at 28th with 6 points. The list is headed by the German
"Baden-Baden" team, followed by the Russian "Ural" and "Saransk",
the Ukrainian "Kiev", the Bosnian "Bosna" and the German "Miulheim
Nord". In the women's games "Mika" won 4:0 in the game against the
Lithuanian "Panevechus". After this game, the Armenian team is at
8th place with 7 points.
A1+
[12:36 pm] 23 October, 2008
The 2008 European chess championship is drawing to an end in
Calitea. There were high expectations for Armenia's champion "Mika",
which was represented with a strong team in the tournament, but
lost the chance to move up to the top one match before the end of
the championship.
In the 6th tournament "Mika" faced off with the Russian "Saransk",
which placed 7th in the competition. Out of the 6 games, "Mika"
won 5 and one of them was a tie. Levon Aronian and Gabriel Sargsian
celebrated their victories, whiel Magnus Carlsen, Bahadur Jobava and
Tigran Petrosian lost to their competitors and Boris Gelfand scored
half a point.
Former Armenian champion "Bankayin Arka" scored over the Hungarian
"Haladas" team with 3:5:2:5. Ashot Anastasian and Artashes Minasian
also won in the games. "Bankayin Arka" scored another eight points,
but placed 11th with 24 points.
FIMA lost to the Austrian "Advisori Invest" team by 2:5:3:5 and is
currently at 28th with 6 points. The list is headed by the German
"Baden-Baden" team, followed by the Russian "Ural" and "Saransk",
the Ukrainian "Kiev", the Bosnian "Bosna" and the German "Miulheim
Nord". In the women's games "Mika" won 4:0 in the game against the
Lithuanian "Panevechus". After this game, the Armenian team is at
8th place with 7 points.