Armenia’s Akopian defeats Azerbaijan’s Rasulov
13:58 14 February, 2014Grandmaster (GM) Vladimir Akopian, who is a member of the Armenian national team, defeated GM Vugar Rasulov (Azerbaijan) in Round 3 of the David Bronstein Memorial chess tournament being held in Minsk, Belarus.
As a result, Akopian has tallied 2.5 points after three rounds.
But GM Gabriel Sargissian, another member of the three-time World Chess Olympiad champions and the previous World Team Chess champions, Armenia, lost to Vasif Durabayli (Azerbaijan).
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan (Armenia), on the other hand, played a draw with countryman Manuel Petrosyan.
Nine rounds will be played in the Bronstein Memorial.
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