{"id":95557,"date":"2011-05-16T11:24:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T06:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=95557"},"modified":"2011-05-16T11:24:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-16T06:24:49","slug":"danielian-mkrtchian-secure-victories-in-round-8-of-european-womens-chess-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/05\/16\/danielian-mkrtchian-secure-victories-in-round-8-of-european-womens-chess-championship.html","title":{"rendered":"Danielian, Mkrtchian Secure Victories in Round 8 of European Women&#8217;s Chess Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian grandmasters Elina Danielian and Lilit Mkrtchian ended Round 8 of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tbilisi2011.ge\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>European Women&#8217;s Individual Chess Championship<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in Tbilisi on a high note. Mkrtchian, playing black, beat Georgia&#8217;s Miranda Mikadze, while Danielian, likewise on black, scored a victory over Hungary&#8217;s Hoang Thanh Trang.<\/p>\n<p>Also performing well in yesterday&#8217;s round were Armenian WGM Nelly Aginian, who beat Georgia&#8217;s Nani Unapkoshvili, and Armenia&#8217;s Maria Gevorgyan who beat Georgian WGM Tamar Khmiadashvili. Both Aginian and Gevorgyan were playing black.<\/p>\n<p>However, other players representing Armenia didn&#8217;t fare so well: Lilit Galojan lost to Scotland&#8217;s Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant, WFM Lia Martirosyan to England&#8217;s Jovanka Houska, WFM Anna Hairapetian to Polish WGM Karina Szczepkowska-Horowska, Siranush Ghukasyan to Georgian WFM Madona Bokuchava and Anahit Kharatyan to Italian IM Olga Zimina.<\/p>\n<p>Topping the standings ahead of Round 9 to be played today are Lithuanian GM Viktorija Cmilyte and Georgian IM Bela Khotenashvili, who both have 6.5 points. Seven players, including Elina Danielian, have 6 points each, though with additional indicators, Armenia&#8217;s contestant is in 3rd place. Lilit Galojan, with 5 points, is in 21st place, and Lilit Mkrtchian, also with 5 points, is currently in 27th place.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Danielian will face off against Russian GM Tatiana Kosintseva; Lilit Galojan, Ukrainian IM Mariya Muzychuk; and Lilit Mkrtchian, Czech WGM Katerina Nemcova.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armenian grandmasters Elina Danielian and Lilit Mkrtchian ended Round 8 of the European Women&#8217;s Individual Chess&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,26219,26217,26220,26218],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}