Armenian grandmaster Zaven Andriasian tied the round 8 of Kazan Universiade against China’s Qun Ma to share 1st - 6th spots with 5 points.

Robert Hovhannisyan lost to Russia’s Maksim Matlakov to drop 16th with 5 points.

In the last, 9th round on July 15, Anrdriasian and Hovhannisyan will face off against Philippines’ Wesley So and Turkmenistan’s Maksat Atabayev respectively.