Armenian team in 5th round of Chess Team Championship had a draw with French team

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian National Chess team in the 5th round of the 17th European Championship in the Serbian town of Novi Sad, ended in a tie with the French team. Levon Aronian suffered his first defeat in this match. Armenian grandmaster at the first board lost to the grand master Etienne Bacrot. Gabriel Sargsyan compensated the lost point. Vladimir Akopian and Tigran Petrosyan ended in a draw with Laurent Fressinet and Feller Sebastien, respectively.



After five rounds of the Armenian team with 7 points in the asset has moved from 7th to 9th place of the tournament table. The Azerbaijani team became the individual leader, which, after the victory over Georgia's national team, scored 10 points. The Russian team is at the second place with 8 points, and the Georgian chess players, also scored 8 points are at the third place.



In the sixth round the Armenian chess players will compete with Spain, with grandmasters Alexei Shirov, Francesco Vallejo, Miguel Iyeskas and Ivan Salgado.