Earning a ticket to the World Championship

Tigran Petrosyan wins ticket to World Chess Championship
19.03.2009 12:33 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Russian grandmaster Yevgeny Tomashevsky won the 10th European Individual Championship which was held in Budva, Montenegro from March 6 to 19.

Tigran Petrosyan, defeating Romanian Constantin Lupulescu, was the only Armenian grandmaster to win the ticket to the World Championship

.The total prize fund of the Individual European Championship is 120,000 Euros. First prize is € 15,000, second is € 12,000, third € 10,000 up to 25th prize, which is € 1,000.

According to Montenegro law all prizes are taxable (maximum 10%). The first 22 players were in addition qualified for the World Cup.

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