The Chess Academy of Armenia in conjuntion with the Armenian Chess Federation is organizing an international chess tournament “Lake Sevan – 2010” during July 10 to 20. It is a round robin tournament with ten participants. Arman Pashikian, Tigran L.Petrosian, Avetik Grigorian, Samvel Ter-Sahakyan, Robert Hovhannisyan (Armenia), Gopal Geeta Narayanan (India), Maxim Matlakov, Pavel Ponkratov (Russia) Luka Lenic (Slovenia) and David Arutinian (Georgia) will participate in it.
Final crosstable:
| SNo. | Name | Rtg | FED | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Pts | SB. | Res. | Rank | |
| 1 | GM | Hovhannisyan Robert | 2529 | ARM | * | ½ | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.5 | 14.50 | 0.0 | 10 |
| 2 | GM | Grigoryan Avetik | 2584 | ARM | ½ | * | ½ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ½ | 0 | ½ | 4.0 | 17.75 | 0.0 | 8 |
| 3 | GM | Arutinian Davit | 2573 | GEO | 0 | ½ | * | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | ½ | 4.0 | 18.75 | 0.0 | 7 |
| 4 | GM | Ter-Sahakyan Samvel | 2525 | ARM | 1 | 1 | ½ | * | ½ | 1 | 0 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 4.5 | 18.25 | 0.5 | 4 |
| 5 | GM | Lenic Luka | 2602 | SLO | 0 | 1 | ½ | ½ | * | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 1 | 4.5 | 18.25 | 0.5 | 5 |
| 6 | GM | Ponkratov Pavel | 2604 | RUS | 1 | 0 | ½ | 0 | 0 | * | ½ | ½ | 0 | 1 | 3.5 | 15.00 | 0.0 | 9 |
| 7 | GM | Pashikian Arman | 2630 | ARM | 1 | 0 | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | * | 1 | ½ | ½ | 6.0 | 26.25 | 0.0 | 1 |
| 8 | GM | Matlakov Maxim | 2603 | RUS | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | ½ | ½ | 0 | * | ½ | ½ | 5.0 | 21.00 | 0.0 | 3 |
| 9 | GM | Petrosian Tigran | 2597 | ARM | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 1 | ½ | ½ | * | 0 | 6.0 | 25.25 | 0.0 | 2 |
| 10 | GM | Gopal G.N. | 2611 | IND | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | 0 | 0 | ½ | ½ | 1 | * | 4.0 | 20.00 | 0.0 | 6 |
Official website: http://www.sevan.chessacademy.am/
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