Tigran Kotanjyan wins gold at 3rd Karen Asryan Memorial
October 13, 2010 – 18:39 AMT 13:39 GMT
PanARMENIAN.Net – Armenian grandmaster Tigran Kotanjyan won gold at the 3rd Karen Asryan Memorial with 64 chess players from Armenia, Russia and Georgia participating.
Shanava Konstantine (Georgia) and Sergey Volkov (Russia) won the second and third places at the tournament.
Karen Asryan, the Armenian grandmaster, 2006 chess Olympian, died at the age of 28 in 2008. The Chess Giants tournament, which was stopped over his death, was later named after him.
Source: http://www.panarmenian.net
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | |
| 1 | GM | Kotanjian Tigran | ARM | 2522 | 7,0 | 42,5 | 45,5 |
| 2 | GM | Shanava Konstantine | GEO | 2566 | 6,5 | 47,0 | 50,5 |
| 3 | GM | Volkov Sergey | RUS | 2595 | 6,5 | 46,5 | 51,0 |
| 4 | IM | Maghalashvili Davit | GEO | 2455 | 6,5 | 44,0 | 48,0 |
| 5 | GM | Vorobiov Evgeny E | RUS | 2565 | 6,5 | 41,0 | 45,0 |
| 6 | GM | Ter-Sahakyan Samvel | ARM | 2516 | 6,0 | 47,0 | 51,5 |
| 7 | GM | Hovhannisyan Robert | ARM | 2522 | 6,0 | 46,0 | 49,5 |
| 8 | GM | Petrosian Davit G | ARM | 2487 | 6,0 | 45,0 | 48,5 |
| 9 | Matinian Nikita | RUS | 2354 | 6,0 | 44,0 | 47,5 | |
| 10 | Vardanian Haik G | ARM | 2320 | 6,0 | 43,5 | 47,5 | |
| 11 | GM | Simonian Hrair | ARM | 2473 | 6,0 | 42,5 | 45,5 |
| 12 | IM | Kalashian David | ARM | 2441 | 6,0 | 40,0 | 43,5 |
| 13 | GM | Babujian Levon | ARM | 2505 | 6,0 | 38,5 | 42,0 |
Full results here.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Good event.