World Cup 2009 under way in Khanty Mansiysk

1/64 final meetings of the III World Cup 2009 under way in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia, are over now. Armenian Tigran Petrosian and Slovakia’s representative Sergey Movsisian have lost their chance to continue the championship. Gabriel Sargsyan and US representative Varoujan Hakobian ended in draw and had to struggle for the next round in tiebreaker. Unfortunately, Gabriel Sargsyan lost to the Chinese Chao Li 3:5 and lost his chance to continue the struggle further. Varoujan Hakobian managed to win against the Russian Pavel Tregubov 9:7 and got the chance to perform further.