Grandmasters Tigran Gharamian (France) and Evgeniya Doluhanova (Armenia) scored 5,5 points each out of 8 before the last round of the open, held in Lille, France.

Grandmasters Suri Vaibhav (India) and Andrey Zhigalko (Belarus) lead the tournament with 6,5 points each, armchess.am reported.