MOSCOW, FEBRUARY 21, NOYAN TAPAN. The 7th stage meetings of the A1 group of the Aeroflot Open international tournament being held in Moscow took place on February 20. Among the Armenian chess players, Artashes Minasian and Gabriel Sargsian have 4.5 points each from the 7 possible ones. Vladimir Hakobian and Karen Asrian have 0.5 point less than they. 3 participants are the leaders in the group with 5.5 points each. Shakhrat Safin (Uzbekistan) is the individual leader of the A2 group, having 6.5 points from the 7 possible ones. And Arman Pashikian and Arsen Yeghiazarian got 5 points each and share the 4-20th places with a great group of chess players. Meetings of the last, 9th stage in the B and C groups are scheduled for February 21. After the 8th stage Davit Kalashian shares the 3rd-12th places in the B group having 6 points, and Tigran Simonian shares the 1st-8th places in the C group having 6.5 points.

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