YEREVAN, October 28 (Noyan Tapan). The Armenian male chess-players performed successfully in the 36th World Chess Olympiad held in the Spanish city of Calvia. During D 11 the Armenian male national team beat the national team of Switzerland with a score of 2.5-1.5. Vladimir Hakobian, Levon Aronia and Gabriel Sargsian drew their games, and Rafayel Vahanian scored the winning point. The veteran of the Armenian chess played excellently in this Olympiad: he earned 7.5 points in nine games. After this victory the Armenian national team has 29 points and places third. The national team of Ukraine (32 points) is in the lead, the Russian national team (29.5 points) places second. The Armenian female national team was beatten by the Russian team with a score of 1:2. Elina Danielian, the leader of the team, registered the victory in her games, but Lilit Mkrtchian and Siranush Andreasian were defeated. Today when 3 days are left until the end of the Olympiad, the Armenian female chess-players earned 19.5 points (they are in the middle of the second ten chess-players of the tournament table. The Chinese team, earning 26 points, is in the lead of the contention. The national teams of Georgia (22 points), Holland and the United States (21.5 points each) follow it. In D 12 the Armenian male chess-players will compete with the chess-players of the United States and the Armenian women will compette with the national team of Slovakia.

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