Guardian Weekly

CHESS

As we’ve been submerged under an inundation of football, the top chess action has been in Jermuk in Armenia.

This 10-player all-play-all featured five Armenians and five. He finished on 6.5/9 ahead of Amin Tabatabaei (Iran), the Armenian-American Sam Sevian and Bogdan-Daniel Deac from Romania on 5.

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