24/11/2009 12:42
Gabriel Sarkisyan leaves the World Cup
As we have already reported, the first losses among the favorites of the World Cup happened after round one. Sergey Movsesyan from Slovakia lost in the first round (classical games) to less known chess player from China Yu Yangyi. Armenia’s Tigran Petrosyan also lost; Gabriel Sarkisyan, unfortunately, lost 3:5 to China’s Chao Li in the tie-break game.
So two Armenia’s chess players, Gabriel Sarkisyan and Tigran Petrosyan leave the World Cup.
Representing the United States Varuzhan Hakobyan continues participating in chess contest. He won 9:7 over Russian Pavel Tregubov in the tie-break game.