Grandmaster Tigran Gharamian and IM Karen Grigoryan scored 5,5 points each out of 7 at Cappelle la Grande Chess Open in France.
They are only half a point behind the leaders – GMs Sanan Syugirov (Russia), Sergey Fedorchuk (Ukraine), Alexei Fedorov (Belarus).
GMs Hovhannes Gabuzyan, Elina Danielian, David Arutinian have 5 points each.
