Istanbul-2012: Armenia becomes triple Olympic champion
17:41 9 September, 2012Armenia’s national chess team becomes triple Olympic champion in Istanbul Chess Olympiad-2012 after calculating all additional points.
In the last game Armenian team defeated Hungary’s national with a score of 2.5:1.5. Sergey Movsisyan won Zoltan Almasi, while Vladimir Hakobyan, Gabriel Sargsyan and Levon Aronyan ended their plays with Judit Polgar, Ferenc Berkes and Peter Leko in a draw.
Thus, two top teams - Armenia’s and Russia’s nationals - both had 19 points after the last round. Russia’s national earlier won German team with 3:1 score.
Ukraine national won the third place after defeating Chinese team.
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