Results
Arutinian David     - Ponkratov Pavel  1 - 0
Hovhannisyan Robert - Kalashian David  1 - 0
Chibukhchian Artur  - Minasian Ara     ½ - ½
Ter-Sahakyan Samvel - Gelashvili Tamaz 0 - 1
Harutjunyan Gevorg  - Jumabayev Rinat  0 - 1

Final Standing
 1. Jumabayev Rinat     7
 2. Chibukhchian Artur  6
 3. Minasian Ara        5,5
 4. Gelashvili Tamaz    5,5
 5. Ponkratov Pavel     4
 6. Harutjunyan Gevorg  4
 7. Ter-Sahakyan Samvel 3,5
 8. Hovhannisyan Robert 3,5
 9. Kalashian David     3
10. Arutinian David     3
 

Armenian WGM Evgeniya Doluhanova has scored 7 points out 8 and is sharing the 1-2 places with WGM Tatjana Vasilevich in Women's Championship of Ukraine, which is being held in Yevpatoria.
 

Results
Ponkratov Pavel  - Harutjunyan Gevorg  ½ - ½
Jumabayev Rinat  - Ter-Sahakyan Samvel ½ - ½
Gelashvili Tamaz - Chibukhchian Artur  0 - 1
Minasian Ara     - Hovhannisyan Robert ½ - ½
Kalashian David  - Arutinian David     1 - 0
 

Armenian WGM Evgeniya Doluhanova has scored 6 points out 7 and is sharing the 1-2 places with WGM Tatjana Vasilevich in Women's Championship of Ukraine, which is being held in Yevpatoria. WIM Ludmila Aslanian has scored 4,5, WGM Diana Arutyunova - 4 points.
 

Results
Kalashian David     - Ponkratov Pavel    0 - 1
Arutinian David     - Minasian Ara       ½ - ½
Hovhannisyan Robert - Gelashvili Tamaz   0 - 1
Chibukhchian Artur  - Jumabayev Rinat    ½ - ½
Ter-Sahakyan Samvel - Harutjunyan Gevorg 1 - 0
 

Armenian WGM Evgeniya Doluhanova has scored 5 points out 6 and is sharing the 1-2 places with WGM Tatjana Vasilevich in Women's Championship of Ukraine, which is being held in Yevpatoria. WIM Ludmila Aslanian has scored 4, WGM Diana Arutyunova - 3,5 points.

There are three rounds left before the end of the event.
 

Results
Ponkratov Pavel    - Ter-Sahakyan Samvel 1 - 0
Harutjunyan Gevorg - Chibukhchian Artur  ½ - ½
Jumabayev Rinat    - Hovhannisyan Robert ½ - ½
Gelashvili Tamaz   - Arutinian David     ½ - ½
Minasian Ara       - Kalashian David     1 - 0
 

Armenian WGM Evgeniya Doluhanova has scored 4,5 points out 5 and is sharing the 1-2 places with WGM Tatjana Vasilevich in Women's Championship of Ukraine, which is being held in Yevpatoria. WIM Ludmila Aslanian has scored 3,5, WGM Diana Arutyunova - 3 points.

41 chess players take part in the tournament. There are 4 rounds left before the end of the event.
 

Results
Minasian Ara        - Ponkratov Pavel     1 - 0
Kalashian David     - Gelashvili Tamaz    ½ - ½
Arutinian David     - Jumabayev Rinat     0 - 1
Hovhannisyan Robert - Harutjunyan Gevorg  0 - 1
Chibukhchian Artur  - Ter-Sahakyan Samvel ½ - ½
 

Results
Ponkratov Pavel     - Chibukhchian Artur  ½ - ½
Ter-Sahakyan Samvel - Hovhannisyan Robert 1 - 0
Harutjunyan Gevorg  - Arutinian David     1 - 0
Jumabayev Rinat     - Kalashian David     1 - 0
Gelashvili Tamaz    - Minasian Ara        ½ - ½
 

GM Gabriel Sargissian (Armenia) scored 5,5 points out of 7 and shared the 1-2 places with GM Jaan Ehlvest (USA). Ehlvest won Sargissian in the Blitz Armageddon play-off.

GM Varuzhan Akobian (USA) was behind the winners with half a point and took the 5th place. GM Tigran L. Petrosian (Armenia) was the 9th with 4,5 points.

None of the three Armenian grandmasters lost a game.
 

Results
Gelashvili Tamaz    - Ponkratov Pavel     ½ - ½
Minasian Ara        - Jumabayev Rinat     0 - 1
Kalashian David     - Harutjunyan Gevorg  ½ - ½
Arutinian David     - Ter-Sahakyan Samvel ½ - ½
Hovhannisyan Robert - Chibukhchian Artur  ½ - ½
 

GM Gabriel Sargissian (Armenia) has scored 3,5 points out of 4 and is sharing the 1-3 places with GMs Shabalov (USA) and Sadvakasov (Kazakhstan). GM Tigran L. Petrosian (Armenia) has scored 3 and GM Varuzhan Akobian (USA) 2,5 points.

There are 3 rounds left before the end of the tournament.

49 chess players take part in the event.
 

Results
Ponkratov      - R. Hovhannisyan ½:½
Chibukhchian   - Arutinian       1:0
Ter-Sahakyan   - Kalashian       0:1
Harutjunyan G. - Ara Minasian    ½:½
Jumabayev      - Gelashvili      ½:½
 

Final
Gelfand - Svidler 3:1
 

1/4 Final
Movsesian - Svidler 1,5:2,5

1/2 Final
Svidler - Grischuk 1,5:0,5
Gelfand - Jakovenko 3:2
 

Results
Jumabayev    - Ponkratov       1:0
Gelashvili   - G. Harutjunyan  1:0
Ara Minasian - Ter-Sahakyan    1:0
Kalashian    - Chibukhchian    0:1
Arutinian    - R. Hovhannisyan 1/2
 

1/8 Final
Movsesian - Tregubov 1,5:0,5
 

Armenian GM Varuzhan Akobian, together with other 5 best chess players of the US championship in Saint Louis, was qualified for the World Cup 2009.
 

Armenian GM Sergei Movsesian will take part in the 3rd ACP World Rapid Cup to be held in Odessa, Ukraine, from 22 to 24 May, 2009.

As usual, it will be a KO tournament with 16 participants. There will be two-game matches at all stages, prior to the final. In the final, four games will be played. Movsesian's opponents will be GMs Jakovenko, Grischuk, Gelfand, Gashimov, Bacrot, Svidler, Naiditsch, Eljanov, Moiseenko, Efimenko, Najer, Karpov, Tregubov, Gurevich, Drozdovskij.
 

Armenia will participate in the World Women's Team Championship to be held in Ningbo, China, from 1 to 12 September, 2009. This information was published by the FIDE Secretariat (Athens). The other participants of the World championship will be Georgia, Ukraine, USA, Russia, Poland, China, as well as the continental champions of Asia, America and Africa.
 

Results
Wang Hao - Movsesian 1:0

Final Standing
1. Eljanov     7
2. Predojevic  5,5
3. Wang Hao    5,5
4. Movsesian   5
5. Harikrishna 4
6. Sokolov     3

You can follow the games of the "Bosna 2009" tournament on our website till May 18, starting from 16:30 (Yerevan time). Online
 

Results
Hess    - Akobian   ½:½
Becerra - Khachiyan ½:½

Final Standing
 1. Nakamura  7
 2. Hess      6,5
 3. Onischuk  6,5
 4. Kamsky    6
 5. Akobian   6
22. Khachiyan 3
Total: 24 chess players.

You can follow the games of the U.S. championship on our website till May 18, starting from 00:01 (Yerevan time). Online
 

Results
Movsesian - Harikrishna ½:½
 

Results
Akobian   - Benjamin 1:0
Khachiyan - Eckert   0:1
 

Results
Eljanov - Movsesian ½:½
 

Results
Movsesian - Predojevic 1:0
 

Results
Nakamura  - Akobian   1:0
Ibragimov - Khachiyan 1:0
 

Results
Movsesian - Sokolov ½:½
 

The 5th M-Tel Masters is being held in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 13 to 23 May, 2009. The 21th Category event sees Topalov, Carlsen, Ivanchuk, Wang Yue, Dominguez Perez and Shirov play in a double round robin format.

You can follow the games of the M-Tel Masters tournament on our website on May 13-17, 19-23, starting from 18:00 (Yerevan time). Online
 

Results
Akobian   - Shulman    ½:½
Khachiyan - Benjamin   0:1
 

Results
Harikrishna - Movsesian    ½:½
 

Results
Ehlvest - Akobian    0:1
Hess    - Khachiyan  1:0
 

The 8th Open, which was held in Semriach, Austria, finished with Andy Matevosyan's (Austria) victory. 18-year-old Matevosyan took the first prize, scoring 4 points out of 5.

36 chess players who represented Austria, Germany and Slovenia took part in the tournament.
 

Results
Akobian   - Becerra 1:0
Khachiyan - Krush   1:0
 

Results
Movsesian - Wang Hao - 1:0
 

Results
Akobian   - Robson    1:0
Shankland - Khachiyan ½:½
 

Results
Movsesian - Eljanov - ½:½
 

GMs Karen Movsziszian (Armenia) and Sergey Kasparov (Belarus) scored 6,5 points each out of 9 and shared the 4th-9th places in the open which was held in La Laguna, Spain. WIM Tatiana Kasparova (Belarus) scored 5 points.

The winner is GM Julio Granda Zuniga (Peru) with 8 points.

120 chess players took part in the tournament.
 

Results
Kamsky    - Akobian 1:0
Khachiyan - Shulman 0:1
 

Results
Predojevic - Movsesian 1:0
 

Results
Zatonskih - Akobian   0:1
Lawton    - Khachiyan 0:1
 

Results
Sokolov I. - Movsesian ½-½
 

Armenian GMs Varuzhan Akobian and Melikset Khachiyan take part in the U.S. championship which is being held in Saint Louis, Missouri, from 9 to 18 May, 2009. GMs Gata Kamsky, Boris Gulko, Jaan Ehlvest, Hikaru Nakamura, Yuri Shulman, Larry Christiansen, Alexander Onischuk, Alexander Shabalov, Gregory Kaidanov are also among the participants.

Altogether 24 chess players take part in the event.
 

Armenian GM Sergei Movsesian (Slovakia) takes part in the 39th International Chess Supertournament "Bosna 2009" in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 8 to 18 May, 2009. His opponents are Hao Wang (China), Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine), Pentala Harikrishna (India), Ivan Sokolov, Borki Predojevic (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The chess players will play with each other two times.
 

GM Karen Movsziszian (Armenia) and Sergey Kasparov (Belarus) have scored 4 points out of 5 in the open which is being held in La Laguna, Spain. They are only half a point behind the leader GM Julio Granda Zuniga (Peru). WIM Tatiana Kasparova (Belarus) has scored 2,5 points.
 

GMs Karen Movsziszian (Armenia) and Sergey Kasparov (Belarus) have scored 3,5 points each after the 4 rounds of the open which is being held in La Laguna, Spain. They are leading the list together with nine other grandmasters. WIM Tatiana Kasparova (Belarus) has scored 2,5 points.
 

Armenian GM David Arutinian (Georgia) scored 7 points out of 9 and shared the 1st-7th places with GMs Bocharov, Maletin, Turov (Russia), Pantsulaia (Georgia), Neverov (Ukraine) and Gopal (India) in blitz tournament which was held in Dubai, UAE.
 

Armenian GM Sergey Kasparov (Belarus) has scored 2 points out of 2 and is among the leaders in the open which is being held in La Laguna, Spain. GM Karen Movsziszian (Armenia) and WIM Tatiana Kasparova (Belarus) have 1,5 points each.
 

Armenian GMs Tigran Kotanjian and Ashot Anastasian had great success in the big open which was held in Dubai, UAE. They, as well as the Russian grandmaster Dmitri Bocharov, scored 7 points each out of 9. Kotanjian took the first place and the Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Al Maktoum Cup with tie-break. Bocharov took the second, Anastasian - the third place.

Hrant Melkumyan scored 6, David Arutinian and Suren Poghosian - 5,5, Aghasi Inants and Vardan Khojayan - 4,5 points nowrap> Kotanjian is The Leader in Dubai Open

Armenian GM Tigran Kotanjian scored 6,5 points out of 8 and before the last round is the leader in the open which is held in Dubai, UAE. GM Dmitry Bocharov (Russia) has also got 6,5 points. GM Ashot Anastasian and other five chess players scored 6 points each.

The winner of the Dubai Open will be decided in the last round in the games Kotanjian-Maletin (Russia) and Guseinov (Azerbaijan)-Bocharov.
 

Armenian GM Giorgi Bagaturov scored 7 points out of 9 and took the first prize in the open which was held in Theassaloniki, Greece.

45 chess players took part in the tournament.
 

Armenian chess players Ashot Anastasian and Tigran Kotanjian scored 4, Hrant Melkumyan - 3,5, David Arutinian, Suren Poghosian - 3, Aghasi Inants, Vardan Khojayan - 2,5 points each after the 5 rounds of the Dubai Open.

GMs Malakhatko (Belgium), Bachmann (Paraguay) and Maletin (Russia) are the leaders with 4,5 points each.