Arman Pashikyan shares 1-2 places at Ferdowsi Chess Tournament

PanARMENIAN.Net - With 5 points, Armenian grandmaster Arman Pashikyan shares 1st-2nd places with Iran’s Morteza Mahjoob after the 5th round of 2nd Ferdowsi International Chess Open Tournament in Mashhad, Iran. The chess players will face each other in the 6h round.

Another Armenian representative Levon Babujyan comes 5th with 4 points to face off against Hamid Dehghani (Iran) in the next round.

Pashikyan’s wife and Armenian women’s chess team member Maria Kursova also demonstrates good performance at the tournament. Kursova currently leads the women’s tournament with 3,5 points. She will rival Sarasadat Khademalsharieh in the next round.