The Armenian men team rivals Russia 1 in the 9th round of the World Chess Olympiad.

Armenia’s Levon Aronian and Arman Pashikyan tied their games with Vladimir Kramnik and Sergey Karjakin respectively, while Gabriel Sargissian suffered a defeat by Peter Svidler.

Thus, the current score of the match is 1:1.

The game between Vladimir Akopian and Alexander Grischuk is still under way.