YEREVAN, May 13 (Noyan Tapan). The tournament of the first team of the 64th Male Chess Championship continues at the Central House of Chess-Players after Tigran Petrosian. At the same time it has a status of the Yerevan open championship. 43 chess-players compete for the title of the Yerevan champion, three sporstmen will be qualified for the tournament of the highest team of Armenian Championship. Representatives of different towns and regions of Armenia, Artsakh and Iran participate in the tournament. After six days two participants are in the lead: Beniamin Galstian (Yerevan) and Artur Chibukhchian (Artsakh), they earned five points each. Another two chess-players Tigran Poghosian and Vardan Danielian (both from Yerevan) earned 4.5 points each. 11 participants earned 4 points each.

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