Armenia's GM Hrair Simonyan scored 4.5 points out of six possible at the Miguel Najdorf Memorial held in Warsaw, Poland. Simonyan is only half a point behind leader Julian Radulski (Bulgaria).

Meanwhile, Armenia's GM Hrant Melkumyan was defeated in the fourth round of an international chess tournament in Balager, Spain. Thus, Melkumyan scored three points and is one point behind the tournament leaders. GM Zaven Andriasyan scored 2.5 points, armchess.am reported.