In the first round of Men's World Chess Championship in Ningbo, China, Armenian national chess team defeats Israeli team in World Championship, becoming a leader of the Championship; the score is 3,5:0,5.

Armenia’s No 1 Levon Aharonyan beat Emil Sutovsky, Vladimir Hakobyan scored over Yevgeny Postny, and Gabriel Sargsyan defeated Tamir Nabati. The game Sergey Movsisyan - Mikhail Roiz ended in a draw.

Russia is the second and Ukraine is the third in the Championship.

In the second round of the Championship, which is to take place on July 18, Armenian chess players will compete with U.S. national team.

Gata Kamsky will compete with Levon Aronyan, Alexander Onishuk with Sergey Movsisyan, Yuriy Shulman with Vladimir Hakobyan and Yasser Seyravan with Gabriel Sargsyan.

The following rivaling pairs will participate in the second round: Russia – Hungary, Azerbaijan –India, Ukraine – China and Israel – Egypt.