On September 25, the Armenian men team competed with Russia's second team, which had not suffered defeats before that, in the fifth round of the World Chess Olympiad.

Armenia's Levon Aronyan tied his game with Ian Nepomniachtchi, while Arman Pashikyan defeated Artyom Timofeev.

The games between Vladimir Akopian and Evgeny Alekseev, Gabriel Sargsyan and Nikita Vitiugov are still under way.