GM Tigran Kotanjyan scored 3 points out of 4 possible in Campomanes Memorial held in Manila, Philippines, with participation of 72 chess players. The Armenian chess player is one point behind leader Zhao Jun (China).

Meanwhile, GM Giorgi Bagaturov and Armen Grigoriev (Georgia) scored 7.5 points each out of 9 possible, sharing the 2nd-8th places in the open held in Istanbul, Turkey. Andrey Sumets (Ukraine) won the tournament among 350 participants, scoring 8 points, armchess.am reported.