YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. Grand master Vladimir Hakobian, one of the strongest chess-players of Armenia, who now works as a trainer in Qatar, again began to play after a long break. Taking part in the large international tournament of Gibraltar he gained 7 points from the possible 10 ones and shared the 4-10th places. Thanks to higher tournament coefficients V.Hakobian took the 4th place. And the winner of the competition was Kiril Georgiev (Bulgaria), who gained 8.5 points. Nagle Short (England) and Emil Sutovski (Israel) sharing the 2nd and the 3rd places fell behind the winner with one point. The two pupils of V.Hakobian, chess-players Al Modiaki and Al Sayed (Qatar), also took part in the Gibraltar tournament. They played well and gaining the 6.5 and 6 points, respectively, took the 11th and the 25th places among 122 participants.

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