The European Individual Chess Championship among women and men, bringing together 17 Armenian chess players in Rijeka (Croatia), is underway.

On March 15 chess players completed the 9th round. Thanks to the victory over Bojan Vuckovic (Serbia), Vladimir Akopian continues to occupy the 8th place. He has had 7 points and is lagging behind the new leader Ian Nepomnyashiy (Russia) by 0.5 points. Hrant Melkoumyan lost to Artyom Timofeev (Russia) and dropped to 29th place.

In 9th round Lilith Galoyan met with Elina Danielyan and won. Now she occupies 8th place with 6.5 points. Danielyan dropped to 36th place. Victoria Smilayt (Lithuania) leads the table with 7.5 points.