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Armenian chess master Levon Babujyan is the top chess player among the six Armenian chess players participating in the international chess competition held in the Iranian city of Mashad.
After 5 rounds, he scored 4.5 points and is currently sharing the 4-7th places. Levon Babujyan, Gevorg Harutyunyan and Suren Poghosyan started the competition feeling very confident and scored victories in the first four rounds, but in the 5th round, the last two were defeated and were left out of the first top ten. Joining them was chess master Ara Minasyan who won his opponent in this round and also scored 4 points.
The other two Armenian participants, Aghasi Inants and Varuzhan Babakhanyan, have 3 and 2.5 points in their actives respectively and hold the 42nd and 100th places respectively.
The competition is being held by the Swiss procedure with 11 rounds.
