Armenia’s Samvel Ter-Sahakyan won his 7th victory in U18 tournament of the World Youth Chess Championship in Caldas Novas, Brazil.
Defeating Eric Rosen (U.S.) in round 8, Ter-Sahakyan tops the standings with 7.5 points. Russia’s Vladimir Fedoseev comes second with 6.5 points.
Robert Aghasaryan scored a victory over Juan Manuel Gaitan of Argentina to climb to the 14th place with 5.5 points.
In the next round Ter-Sahakyan and Aghasaryan will face Das Debashis (India) and Eric Rosen respectively.
