May 2, 2011 - 17:36 AMT
Tigran Gharamian wins gold at Lille-hosted chess championship

Armenian grandmaster Tigran Gharamian won gold at Lille-hosted open chess championship. The grandmaster gained 7 points out of 9 possible.

Grandmasters Oleg Korneev (Russia), Nikita Maiorov (Belarus) and an international master Yannick Gozzoli (France) scored equal number of points, yet fell behind Gharamian in cumulative tie-break points, armchess.am reported.