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Armenian Grand Master Vardan Kodjoyan presenting Armenia in “Moscow Open 2008” international competition became a champion in the second group. The 18 years old Grand Master managed to show perfect results- 8.5 scores from 9 possible. Russian Grand Master Oleg Orlov is in the second place with 8 scores. The best triple is completed by Sergey Koroschenko with 7.5 scores.

Note that Kodjoyan lost only 0.5 scores in the competition in the last ninth part. In the ninth part he met with his compatriot Tigran Gasparyan.

Artyom Timofev became the champion of the first group. He has 7.5 scores on his account. Alexandr Riazantsev is in the second and Sergey Volkov in the third place. Armenian champion, Grand Master Karen Asryan has 6 scores and occupies the middle places of the competition.

Slovenian International Master, champion of Europe Anna Muzchuk became the champion in the women’s competition. Ukrainian Anna Ushenin comes after the champion. The triple is completed by Ukrainian Nathalia Zhukov. Armenian Grand Master Elina Danielyan completes the best ten with her 6.5 scores.

Note: “Moscow Open” international competition takes place since 2005. The competition started on 2 February, and finished yesterday.