Armenian GM Hrant Melkumyan scored 7 points out of 9 and shared the 1st-5th places with GMs Volkov (Russia), Zhou Weiqi (China), Rychagov (Russia) and Deviatkin (Russia) in Chigorin Memorial which was held on November 3 in St Petersburg (Russia).
IM Robert Hovhannisian scored 6,5 points; GM Zaven Andriasian, IM Levon Babujian and Vardges Tovmasian scored 6 points each.
There were 159 chess players taking part in the tournament, armchess.am reports.
Mikhayil Chigorin was an outstanding Russian chess-player at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. He is considered on of the founders of Russian-Soviet chess school. Chigorin is the author of many chess debuts, including Queen Gambit otherwise known as Chigorin Defense.
