HAKOBYAN’S FIRST VICTORY

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April 20, 2009

FIDE’s series of Grand Prix qualifying tournaments continue in Nalchik.

Armenian GM Levon Aronian played a tie with Evgeny Alexseev in round
five. In the fourth round Levon outplayed the Russian GM Alexander
Grishchuk gaining 0.5 point. Presently, Aronian takes 2-5 places with
three points.

Sergey Karyakin (Ukraine), Peter Leko (Hungary) and Evgeny Alexseev
(Russia) also gained three points. Alexander Grishchuk tops the
tournament list with 3.5 points.

Another Armenian GM, Vladimir Hakobyan, enjoyed his first victory at
the tournament after beating Gatta Kamski of the USA. Hakobyan moved
on to the 12th place with two points.

In the next sixth round Levon Aronian is to compete with Vassily
Ivanchuk and Vladimir Hakobyan with Sergey Karyakin