Armenia to compete without Aronian in World Team Chess Championship 4th round
July 20, 2011 – 11:17 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – On July 20, Armenian men’s national chess team will hold the fourth round of World Team Chess Championship in Ningbo, China rivaling Egypt team.
The Armenian team coach Arshak Petrosian gave No1 Levon Aronyan opportunity to have rest. On the first board he will be displaced by Sergey Movsesian to rival Ahmed Adli.
Vladimir Akopian will compete with Bassem Amin and Gabriel Sargisian with Samy Shoker. A 19-year old Robert Hovhannisian who is Armenia’s champion of 2011 will first time participate in the World Team Chess Championship and will play versus Mohamed Ezat.
Russia-Azerbaijan, Ukraine-Hungary, Israel-India and US-China pairs will compete in the fourth round.
After three rounds, Armenian team has 7,5 points to its total score and ranks the second. Russia is leading the Championship.
Source: http://www.panarmenian.net
I think Aronian will be world champ soon.